Tag: poems
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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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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 weathered but comfy old couch where we…
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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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Driving through the beautiful Sierras
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Jennie and I just got back from a week-long car trip through the beautiful Sierras, looping across the upper Central Valley to the Mendocino Coast, and eventually returning to Santa Cruz. The early part of our journey found us traveling through Gold Rush country, principally on Highway 49. Whenever I…
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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.