Author: Matt

  • Cameras as Remembrances of Things Past : “O insupportable and touching loss!” — Shak.

    It was a Kodak Bantam camera with a lens that folded out on a rail, very charming and dainty, with little metal knobs to set the f-stops and one to set the shutter. You could put it into the palm of your hand like some inlaid treasure of inestimable value. Because it…

  • “Little Errands”

    On  7 April I will be giving a reading with other authors at a local branch of the Southwestern Authors society. I will read “Little Errands,” a story from Down to a Sunless Sea. A story as simple as that of a man trying to mail a letter, it becomes an…

  • Interview with Shirley Roe, Editor and CEO of Allbooks Reviews, Without the Questions

    I am an aging New Yorker who dearly misses Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray and brisket on rye. Living among the elderly here who play and cavort as if in a second childhood, I feel misplaced, but I am always the observer. Unfortunately it took decades before I could metabolize what i…

  • Am I Overly Sensitive?. . .I Hope So

    Struggling with my weight in an endeavor to avoid diabetes and to lower my blood pressure, I resolved to join Weight Watchers, which I did recently. I am perhaps the only man in a group of about 35 to 40; it fluctuates. I find the plan itself sane and doable,…