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SUPERANNUATED
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At 79 I am superannuated. Sounds like a Wells Fargo APR. I walk into a gas station and ask for directions. “Don’t you have a map on your cell?” I don’t answer, why bother to explain that I have a Jitterbug flip phone for seniors with large numerals. I really bought it because it is […]
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NINA’S MEMENTO MORI, II
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I just scanned Sunless, published in 2007 and reread “Echo,” a story about attachment and loss as well as love. It is strange for me to look back upon what I’ve written. Often the sense is who wrote these thoughts. At times I am pleased with the way they have been written. When you add up the […]
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Nina’s Memento Mori, Part 1
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In a few weeks I will submit my final edit of the above book which is an elegy and homage to my deceased wife, Nina. It is a moment of loose ends, checking the cover of the book as well as the back cover spiel by editor, David Herrle, who was also the consulting editor […]
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QUAQUAVERSAL
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I feel compelled, as a writer, to introduce you to my own idiosyncratic ways of going about writing a story. The creative process, as I observe, might prove of worth to reveal as I experience it. After finishing and publishing TESSRAE: A MEMOIR OF TWO SUMMERS I lay fallow. I never know what the next […]