FALLING: Love-struck

Dear Friends:  LOOK! My book of poetry is being published in May. Here is the draft cover (with a few too many colons). I am so pleased, BUT….. Finishing Line Press wants 100 pre-publication sales, and I am asking you out of friendship, curiosity, generosity,...

A True Miracle

You rarely come across a truly miracle—so much is called  imagination or explained as some twist of quarks or physics, but here’s one that happened to me just a few days ago. I was on the Chunnel train traveling from London to Paris. I was underground, in fact deep...

The Mystery of Creativity, Sex, Beauty and Aging

Rest is not idleness, and to lie in the sun on a warm Spring day, listening to the rustle of the wind in the trees or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. Alba, the cat. There is a long tradition of writing from the point of view...

Love, Alba

Well, in another ten days my novel, LOVE, ALBA will be in bookstores. (I think it’s already posted on Amazon), and I’m ready to go into a trough of depression after all these months of work. BUT I GOT MY FIRST REVIEW THIS WEEK, and I’m so pleased I could POP!  It’s...

AMAZON, AUTHORS AND READERS

For years, I have talked of angels and mysterious coincidences—those shivers of the spine that make you marvel that Something Out There is watching over us, loving, guarding, guiding, warming, healing, helping us—and that the world is essentially good and on our side....