Tag: poem
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On Writing about Strong Women
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Literature is full of classic novels portraying strong female characters. Titles like Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Pride and Prejudice, and My Ántonia, to name just a few, have graced old and new bookshelves for many years. History, as depicted in both fiction and nonfiction, has been shaped in large part…
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A while back, I built a Little Free Lending Library
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A while back, I built a Little Free Lending Library. You know the kind: a boxy receptacle with shelves, a pitched roof, and small swinging glass door housing used books on various subjects.
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A test of faith. Please pray for my tree.
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This may be a test of faith. For the past several years, we have been growing in our front yard a very tall, very large Zutano avocado tree. It’s on the sunny side of our home, so Jennie and I most evenings take our glass of wine out to a…
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Down the coast from my house sits Villa Maria Del Mar
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About three blocks down the coast from my house sits Villa Maria Del Mar, a stately three-story wooden hotel first built in the 1890s to accommodate mostly Catholic vacationers
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A car trip through the beautiful Sierras
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This, in a roundabout way, brings me to a local issue regarding the renaming of Cabrillo College
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The nice thing about having a blog?
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You can write anything you want and be assured very few people will actually read it.
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A poem about the Ohlone people
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While writing and rewriting some poems recently, I realized I never wrote a poem about the Ohlone people that inhabit my novel. In so many ways, I want to pay tribute to them and yet not speak for them. It’s not for me to define their worldview, I can only…
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My poems are “accessible.”
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A while back, I compiled some of my poetry and had Community Printers in Santa Cruz print up two hundred copies, which I distributed to family and friends. I did three readings and maybe sold a half dozen books. All in all, a great experience. I have continued to write…
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Adventure in Lombok Strait—2003
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This blog has nothing to do with my novel, Five Hundred Moons. (Did I hear some sighs of relief?) No, it’s about my son and his friends and an adventure in Lombok Strait—2003. An experience they would just as soon forget.