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  • Fires In The Catalinas

    The fires in the Catalinas are better contained now, no new flareups that I can see. Smoke channels upwards here and there, but not the darkened clouds of a week or so ago. Containment, then break-out, then containment again. People began to be disappointed in the language chosen to convey the situation to Tucsonians. Fire […]

  • Query Letter for Sojourner: “To Be What We Are, And To Become What We Are Capable Of Becoming Is The Only End Of Life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

    I’ve decided to blog this query written on 19 August 1990. Of course, I will change the credits and tinker here and there; however, other than squeezing it tighter, I like it. Having just completed a major revision of the book, cutting about 12 pages and revising sentence by sentence, I will now let it […]

  • Catching Up With Mt. Lemmon

    I’m at poolside now, late into dusk. In the distance an immense cloud is above the Catalinas. It’s as if a big fist gave a shiner to the sky. A covey of birds, new to me, strut linearly about the pool, mother and chicks. Offbeat bird sounds punctuate the lambent air, now warmly cool. It […]

  • Alger and Calvani Interviews

    Derek Alger, editor, Pifmagazine.com (see links) and Mayra Calvini, author, at Blogcritics.org/ have put up two interviews with me. Alger worked me on the phone and we chatted for about an hour as he endeavored to get a sense of who I was as a person and as a writer, much the same thing. In […]