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 […]

The Year from the Rearview Mirror

Mojave Desert Spring 2011 In June I completed the manuscript to Bankrupt Heart a project I’d been working on for some 21 months. This was the first of firsts, the vow to see to the end the finishing of the second novel. Bankrupt Heart my second novel has a tighter plot, memorable characters, sharp dialogue, […]

Infinite Pleasures

Everything I thought I knew has been thrown into doubt. I had thought today could be much like any other day. I thought I’d go along and get along. I made the mistake of listening to a physicist. It seems that this one universe we live in might be just one out of an infinite […]

Change of Heart

It has been time to suck it up. You know the way. You get up earlier. You try harder. You mean to apply yourself. Eat better. Drink more water. Review the plan and then work it. More important try to enjoy it. Having now had a good stint at doing necessary tasks I can put […]

Free to Play the Game

To celebrate the first day of the rest of my life I had oatmeal. For dessert I took my supplements and finally to get the start of the day off to a rollicking hilarious start I just completed ninety minutes on my recumbent bike. Add to my writing chores I also continue to perform. The […]

Even When I Look Back I Still Don’t Get It…

Looking too good…. I’m not sure when it happened. I think they slipped them into a five pack. I’m talking about my polka dot bikini briefs. I don’t think I was brought up to accept things like this. I do remember when men’s fine clothing consisted of such things as: gabardine, linen, silk, and merino […]

Classic Street Theater

I studied Shakespeare. I was a ballet dancer. I started out working in theater. I was trained in the classics, at least to the extent that my brain would permit prior to my stomach starting to bellyache about it. Aristotle, Plato, and later Cervantes I discovered had discovered most of what I was discovering. I […]

Third Act…Enter the Fool

If one third of life is sleep what is the rest of the time for? Oh, I get to use it for making things. I have spent much of these past years making shows. I have made a lot of little things too. I’ve made songs. I’ve fixed sailboats, and overhauled engines. I made a […]

Deep Background on an Earl Warren Supporter

Back in ’64 when cigarette smoking remained a virtuous activity for an aspiring up and coming young man San Jose was a place where one of the largest stone fruit crops in the world was still grown. Apricots, peaches, and nectarine orchards were still a defining feature. The Jesuits were still growing wine at the […]

I Feel So Sorry for Billionaires

Banque Populaire is currently blasting south in the Atlantic towardCape Hornin an attempt to set a new non-stop circumnavigation record for a sailboat. The skipper is with Team Energy the French America’s Cup boat. I don’t often deal with a realm that is described by numbers. The sailboat Banque Populaire is 131 feet in length […]