When I was growing up, quite often you’d see a person at the side of the road, thumbing for a ride. Lancaster is a city in the high desert of California but when I was young, it was still a town, with long stretches of...
Is there any phrase more beautiful on the page, more symmetrical and decisive in its sound, more woven with universal meaning and evocative of the human condition--our intrinsic hopes, dreams and needs--than pas de deux?
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I admit it: sometimes I get side-tracked on YouTube. I went on this morning to find some footage of turtles because I'm writing a short story that features one. (On the edge of your seats to read that one,...
I'm working on some content for my website (watch this space for exciting news along those lines)...and I've been contemplating early influences--you know, the signposts on my road to becoming a writer, and I've been thinking...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka
