Publishing
A Park for all Seasons
My hometown, Merrill, Wisconsin, on the Wisconsin River, was French trapper, trader and missionary I-90/94 in the 16th. and 17th century . The region supported transient populations of French and...
The Netherlands, 2-12 February 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avenue_at_Middelharnis The Avenue at Middelharnis is a Dutch Golden Age painting of 1689 by Meindert Hobbema. It shows a road leading to the village of Middelharnis on the island of...
Writing in France
My part of Burgundy(Côte-d'Or) is a landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season), the hillsides dotted with white...
Perfume River – The storyteller, the young man, and truth
The novel is a pack of lies hounding the truth. Carlos Fuentes Robert Olen Butler is one of America’s finest authors, and his just-released book, Perfume River, is his finest...
Winter morning @ Farm
Hoarfrost: It remained on the trees, seemingly renewing every night, for the second week of December (2014). On other nights, the sky was clear and the full moon rendered the...
Upon a long road
Colorado's Mt. Wilson, an actor in the novel "The Wounded" Dubai Fountain. I look out on the pool and fountain. I have...
Long Road: Dresden to Dubai
Novelist seeking words in storied lands Our budget year abroad is approaching an end. Our strategy was to live where it was inexpensive (Rovinj, Croatia) to afford better (Dresden, Germany), then...
Memory and memorial
Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘a,' ‘and,’ and ‘the.’ Mary McCarthy, a New York writer and Trotskyite, speaking of Lillian Hellman, a New York writer and Stalinist, on...
