Publishing Anniversary

“Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.” ~ Michael Morpurgo “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” ~ Hermann Hesse Wow! The Space Between Time print-on-demand version was published a year ago thisContinue reading “Publishing Anniversary”

TV Lessons

“This instrument can teach. it can illuminate, and yes, it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it toward those ends.” ~ Edward R. Morrow speaking about television I’m a big TV and movie nerd. It’s not that I know everything about the latestContinue reading “TV Lessons”

Potent Daydreaming

“A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.” ~ W.H. Auden “Let’s detox our cluttered academic brain. That’s what the poet does. People callContinue reading “Potent Daydreaming”

The Working Artist

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; whoContinue reading “The Working Artist”

Louis L’Amour and Omega Men

“I think of myself … as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.” ~ Louis L’Amour “If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it’s a historical novel. If it’s west of the Mississippi, it’s a western, a different category.Continue reading “Louis L’Amour and Omega Men”