December 28, 2014
December 24, 2014
A short story released
Very pleased to share that my short story, The Falls, is now available in the latest offering from the literary journal, Crab Creek Review. You can click here if you are interested in ordering it - it is a Seattle-based journal so if you are in that neck of the woods, you can purchase it at bookstores, etc. but if you are an east coaster like me or elsewhere, follow the link.
Also very happy to note that Crab Creek Review has nominated the story for the Pushcart Prize. Thrilling to consider that possibility, always an honor to be nominated.
December 21, 2014
Storybook Christmas Sunday Quote
Bits from this lovely book about too many holiday house guests but they find room for them all and - of course!-- a festive time is had by all. 
It helps to browse the children's Christmas books when the short tempered real world with impatient drivers, testy shoppers, and exhausted fretful children with their exhausted fretful parents start to wear one down and stomp out all the Christmas spirit. I'll try to remember to look for another good one tomorrow.
December 18, 2014
Christmas time in New York
Caught the wonderful Broadway show, Cabaret, on Sunday with the remarkable Alan Cumming and the current Sally - Emma Stone. Both terrific, the cast amazing. Quite different from the movie version, closer to the book The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood. Adored the actress Linda Emond and her soaring voice as the landlady and her love interest played with such pathos by Danny Burstein. Did the crowded Fifth Avenue stroll afterwards (the tree, the tree) and then onto Bryant Park where I love to stop in the summer for an iced drink after visiting Patience and Fortitude, the Library Lions. Now it's a Christmas wonderland with a surprisingly large ice rink, a lovely tree, and many little wooden "houses" filled with gifts and food goodies and the like. Ample room to sit and rest and watch the skaters here as well - and just a short stroll to Grand Central Station. A good time was had by all.
December 7, 2014
Sunday Quote
You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world and you will be something. "I cannot," never accomplished anything, "I will try," has wrought wonders.
- J. Hawes
December 6, 2014
November 30, 2014
Sunday Quote
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder'.
- Aldous Huxley
November 23, 2014
November 21, 2014
November 19, 2014
Woodstock wandering
Loved this combo, great little artsy shops abound. Got treats both vegan and regular at the divine peace love and cupcakes, had a delicious supper at Joshua's
Some pig
Beautiful countryside, mountain backdrop
Love this!
Once was an old shop...a great guy named Lenny who had been a former city guy ran a head shop across the way, a sharer of plum wine and wild stories
November 12, 2014
November 10, 2014
Cast back to Day of the Dead
Yearly our library hosts a fantastic visual display by a local artist group to celebrate this holiday. Here's a peek at it.
November 9, 2014
Sunday Quote
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets.
October 31, 2014
October 29, 2014
October 27, 2014
A Squeak Past Midnight Sunday Quote
Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
- Federico Fellini
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