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What is the name of that wiry, nutty creature that fawned over Jabba the Hutt?
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Having read my blogs of late, Jane has decided to keep me honest; she has the brainpower and dry wit to see through cant. And she knows when I am being preposterous, pompous as well as grandiose. That’s what I need, a built-in critic! So as she reads these blogs she cuts through the layers […]
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I Am Feeling Enthused
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Correspondence with reviewers and bloggers of late has been encouraging; new ideas are coming to mind as I sit here in Ahab’s cabin, trying to encompass the world in my driven search for the great white whale; do you recall John Huston’s film in the fifties where you hear Ahab’s pegleg thumping on the deck as the […]
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Tintinnabulation
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I just received word from Reader Views that I am a semi-finalist for their literary contest, and yesterday I failed to reach that level for another contest. All interesting and exciting. A very good review appeared on Reader Views yesterday and then I was notified that it went big time and was on USA Today […]
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The Parable of the Sea Wall, and Other Things
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For a while I read Alice Miller, and was moved to underline this quotation in one of her books: “The way we were treated as small children is the way we treat ourselves the rest of our life. And we often impose our most agonizing suffering upon ourselves.” Although not consciously Down to a Sunless […]