It’s the Good Life

“Romance… it gives a man something to do while he’s waiting for the only thing he really wants.” A performer is just that. We earn our money by presenting whatever it is we have learned to do. Sometimes it is as simple as memorizing lines, and at other times it is the result of […]

Your One Night Stand on the Front Page

Imagining Hot Spring Honeymoon Where Love Has Come to Play “Emptiness does not differ from form. Emptiness is form and form is emptiness,” This ambiguous quote comes from Buddhism’s great teachings contained in The Heart Sutra. Caught in this paradoxical world of here and now, the fiction writer slashes through all the chaos that […]

Under the Spell of a Golden Gate Wooden sloop, Hull #18 Maestro

Indian summer ignites my passions. I don’t mind a hot summer day, don’t care for a cold winter night, but those last gasps of balm that slather my skin as the Northern hemisphere inevitably marches toward winter stir some deeper part of my yearnings. Because fitting out a wooden sloop is so time intense they […]

When Will You Ever Change

My first drink in the Mauna Loawas much the same as my last drink. It was with much the same folks who were there the last time I was there. And while the people could not possibly have been the identical group of people there the first time they were linked by some mysterious attractant […]

A World of Change

“That everything changes is the basic truth of existence.” Shunryu Suzuki We do great harm to our lives when we surround it with worn out old stories. Nothing stays the same. Things are not fixed but rather in a state of flux. We have a lot of change going on in our world. […]