sailing the soul

The clever Moitessier had let go the invisible lines I had been using to hold my imagination back, his astronavigation student had been set adrift.

Skyline at Twilight

Women’s March Phoenix, Arizona 2019 Nashville’s famed music district is being dismantled. Nobody can blame anybody. Times haven’t changed but the price of real estate has. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Jazz a favorite idiom frequented by this street act no longer sells. America’s great gift to music exists in the hearts and minds of the […]

Velocity of our Change

Jacaranda Petals Healing the Velocity of Life Out Loud… Long fiction, scene by scene, attempts to decode the workings of our ever smaller world. Politics, culture and commerce bombard our nervous system from the mundane to the uninvited digitized global events we view on our media devices. Individual freedoms in this interconnected phenomenal life are […]

How Sweet It Is

The Most Beautiful Places in the World Timing is everything. A good location doesn’t hurt. But, it’s the intangibles that will get you. “To be completely honest, although I love living in the city, it’s not my favorite place to perform.” What? “It seems to have an overly-politically-correctness vibe.” Really? So, we haven’t changed; they […]

The Showman’s Shortlist of Worries and Affirmations

Hats go up and down much as the stock markets do. I had lunch yesterday with Dan Holzman. He had nothing but good things to say about his last outing. The money stunk but audiences were good. Wheeler Cole back from a lengthy tour of the Big Island of Hawaii has been throwing shows at […]

That Brilliant Joke Teller Sam Brownback

No fixing stupid, No cure for stubborn… I do own a suit. I am an entertainer. I can say things that aren’t true. In fact in my business I’m not really required to tell the truth. I’m in the business of amusement. If you stand up and raise your hand and volunteer to fly an […]

The Old West is Waiting

stealhead, river running, and hay farming as far as an eye can see The dirt road winds down the mountain into Troy, Oregon on the Grande Ronde River. Size of community is a mere handful of good souls. Groceries fetched by driving 50 miles north to Lewiston, Idaho. The outpost captures my interiors yearning […]

Slow Down You Move to Fast, You’ve Got to Make the Morning Last

Running the mile in less than four minutes, we knew it could be done we just didn’t know what it might mean. Now the rate of change seems to sweep whatever it is we are doing now into the dust bins of our present. So we sit with one foot in the present while we […]

Award Winning Award Ribbons

Jane Cottonwood started lifting spirits as a coffee shop waitress in Beatty, Nevada. While attending horse shows with her little barrel racing daughters Jane came to find out there was a real shortage of award ribbons for those little winners she was raising. ‘Janey’ came to know how the world worked by living on Highway […]

I Knew Norman Mailer, I met Norman Mailer, I Miss the Man

Writers have this obstacle to overcome in the ongoing tension between modern brain research and western psychological model and spirituality. As such authors are required to either conform to the conventions of the day, or if they do not invent methods to circumvent these limitations. Here is Norman Mailer in conversation, “When you write novels […]