When Ray was writing the screenplay for Moby Dick he read every other chapter… 1-3-5-7. Because he didn’t want “too much nonsense.” Then after the odd chapter reading he wrote the screenplay and read the entire book to see if…
Summer in the Catskills, the days long and warm, the air humming with insects. Squirrels dangle from branches, trying to steal seeds out of bird feeders. The steep mountains are carpeted with trees. In 1800, giant hemlocks, 80-100 ft. tall…
I worked in a camp for war orphans and refuges after the war (in about 2002) Ray Bradbury, my mentor, was a hero to readers in Bosnia due to Fahrenheit 451 In August 1992., at the beginning of the Siege…
Storytelling was wonderful last night. Hosted by me and Mariana Willians Tales had the audience laughing and crying. Stories of teenage orphans and strawberry field not forever, tribulations of travel, lingual miscommunication, armed fathers, memories of mothers, childhood angels, imaginary…
Thanks I stole his BLOG!!!!! so it goes…. Perpetual Motion Publishing Machine has provided the contributing authors to SO IT GOES: A TRIBUTE TO KURT VONNEGUT with the galley proof for a final edit so… if so it goes well…..…
Butterflies!
“La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King. via “La guía de Dirk Quigby al más allá”, de E.E. King.
Amanitas are curious mushrooms. They grow in a wide variety of locals, some in humid southern swamps under the shadows of giant ferns. Others flourish up north, rising from cold white snow like iced roses on a wedding cake. They…
Tuesday, the 2nd, is Candlemas day, the day on which, according to the Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of his winter quarters and if he sees his shadow he pops back for another six weeks nap, but if the day…
Waco is remembered most for the Branch Davidian scandal. The Branch Davidians, if you don’t remember were a bunch of religious crazies. (Religious crazies… the term is repetitive. ) As for the Davidians, David Koresh was their leader. He had…