Alternate Journeys

Winter’s almost here again. Great. No, I mean that. Great. I don’t mind a salt shake of bad weather, as a rule. I’m a writer, for God’s sake. Cloudy days and rain on the roof give me inspiration. I find sunshine annoying, when I’m trying to create. And if there’s a soothing snowfall outside—whoa—look out. […]

​When one bright morning I open my eyes and look around and find myself waking up in the thistly, chigger-ravaged cusp of a 3,000 acre working ranch and wildlife preserve, I experience the process of “life change” in what is known in music and dance and rate of pay (as well as, drill-sergeant jargon) as

Having worked in the corporate world for as long as I had, I knew (or at least felt) a good thing when it came my way. For years I had done what many writers do to make ends meet. You work the day job, or the night job, or the bits-and-pieces jobs, and you write