by Robert | Dec 12, 2014 | Deception
Early morning, December 12, 2014: The Town of Russell school bus, a veritable light show of blinking and flashing amber and red and strobe lights, flies past in the pre-dawn darkness. The temperature hovers either side of freezing. The forest, gray and white save...
by Robert | Dec 10, 2014 | Deception
Patrice and I are at the farm for at least the next year. Of late, the mornings have been fog-shrouded over one foot of snow. Beautiful. I work every day on The Executioner’s Son. We are in 1960-62 post-Stalin Moscow. Lenin/Stalin’s...
by Robert | Oct 2, 2014 | Deception
Define the word I am writing a dramatic novel with the working title, Executioner’s Son. Deception is the backdrop against which the characters act out their roles. The locations are three: Suzdal, Russia; Moscow, and Mariel, Cuba. It opens in Suzdal,...
by Robert | May 24, 2014 | Deception, Germany, Travel
…and Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming I have been taking long walks in the Upper Swabian countryside this spring. The Alps like the Rockies advance or retreat as is their wont and per the air’s clarity. This is a rich and well watered land, tended...
by Robert | May 10, 2014 | Deception, Germany, Russia
Great Nightmares I am a Germanophile. There is not much about this land I do not admire. When I first lived in Germany (Berlin, 1970-75), I was young, inexperienced and busy; my goal was to have a good time. The second time I lived in Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz,...
by Robert | May 2, 2014 | Deception, Germany
Memorials Patrice and I have been in Illmensee, Germany these few weeks. I was stationed eight years in Germany. Christopher and Michelle were born here, Robert, Marcia and Deborah had their escapades and I count myself a Germanophile. I can remember only one...