Purposeful Heart Energy—
My tendency is to focus on the love struck. Because I enjoy characters struggling with problems their emotions cause.
Read More Purposeful Heart Energy—Author: Dana Smith
Author and Entertainer
Comedy as Cure
Hurricanes are more powerful; droughts linger longer and wildfires rage uncontrollably across the landscape. I have a second climate change comedy screenplay under construction. The best way to think about the climate is to laugh about our predicament and then because we can see for ourselves the impact our runaway climate is having on our […]
Read More Comedy as CureRandom Answers Only
Barbecue weather this week. Heatwave arrived Monday did a little higher temperatures Tuesday with the big finale today— National Weather Service has our respite arriving late Thursday night. Bay Area sailors do their best to put a smiling face on all our wind and fog, sailing is a bundle up affair. Terrestrial creatures are scalding […]
Read More Random Answers Onlydusty days in nevada—
Nevada is my solitude tonic. California is many things and there is found here plenty of emptiness. If on the other hand you are looking not just for solitude but want a real taste of what the Lower 48 has to offer in the way of near as you can get to nothing, I’d recommend […]
Read More dusty days in nevada—Out and About
Curiosity drew the steer to the fence. I approached hoping I might coax a scratch atop the head between the horns, no deal. When you are out on the road a certain degree of mistrust can keep you alive— I’d jumped from the Bay Area to Cold Springs, Nevada. As drives go it was not […]
Read More Out and AboutAugust agenda
We won’t go back— got that right. We won’t go back. That’s one while the other is— mind your own damn business— Had you been away say in an isolation chamber, perhaps a news fast, you were at a mountain retreat working on your sitting practice with a Thai forest monk. You will be forgiven […]
Read More August agendaBarrel Aged Character Development
Relationships are as fickle. And now they are living on a place where the landscape is as unpredictable as their art, as their love, as their entire life.
Read More Barrel Aged Character DevelopmentOde to Emptiness—
One of the Northwest’s great illusions are its forests. Like water it is impossible to imagine that there is a shortage. No such problem in La Paz where the organism we know as a tree is almost nonexistent.
Read More Ode to Emptiness—North to Ensenada
…for reasons to do with friendship and decision-reversal-syndrome the reluctant mariner had been junketed in by plane and bus to become part of one of sailings least desirable passages—
Read More North to EnsenadaSwilling Ale with Titans of the Sailing Sea
What is to know about Rob is that he is a crafty fella’, easy to laughter, cautiously friendly, fearless of the problems that mortal enemy of happy sailing mud may wreak upon a boat stuck in San Pablo Harbor’s claggy bottom.
Read More Swilling Ale with Titans of the Sailing Sea