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- My hometown:
- I grew up in St.Louis, fled at age 16 to become an apprentice
jazz musician in NYC. Hobnobbed with such greats as
Zoot Prestige, Armadillo Dankworth, Yehuda Manne,
and Rory Stankafew. I began writing at fifteen to impress
a girl and found that I couldn't stop (writing, that is). It's taken
me forty years to overcome callow descriptions like "He said,
his lips tightening in anger." Now my descriptions are a tad
less soap opera.
- My books:
- My first sale was to Playboy, via Scott Meredith. It won Best Story Award, and got me fourteen minutes of fame. After that
I failed at my career with incredible dedication. My sci-fi
book, "The Gods Of The Gift" has me really excited and
looking for an agent. So too with regard to the novel,
"The Vice of Courage" which tells the story, among many,
of my pilgrimage to the jazz life of NYC. Non fiction book,
"Green Highways: living a good life in a changing America"
is a book with good commercial potential. work in progress:
"The Shadow Storm". It's a book that describes an alternate
world with technology of Earth circa 1914. It's an historical
novel that takes place in this world. Based on a decade
of research into the Yugoslav breakup and Afghanistan's
problems.
- Website:
- http://www.artsdigitalphoto.com
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The Fox
All my life they have been open
like questions, asking,
“Who will fit here, will she be this way,
or this way?”
They extend and caress an invisible presence.
Then you slid between them;
at first they were surprised.
“This is not what we expected”, they said,
“we held ourselves here, where there was nothing,
and we learned to stroke the silky smoothness of nothing,
and became stubborn waiting for nothing.”
But you pulled my hands into yourself,
and the questions were… Continue
Posted on April 15, 2009 at 7:04pm —
How I Met My Soul Mate: From "Green Highway--Living a good life in a changing America"
single, and not liking it. I had taken up the habit of visiting
online singles websites. We all know that the internet dating world is a mad farcical gallery, a circus sideshow of fantasy and bad judgment. We do it anyway; it’s like eating fudge. After the first piece it’s disgusting but there’s no
way to stop until it’s either gone or you begin to go into diabetic coma.
I was addicted to reading ads, scanning descriptions, viewin… Continue
Posted on March 25, 2009 at 3:17am —
Prayer On March 9
I am always your student.
I am always in love with you.
I am always willing to change myself
to follow the deepest promptings
that you have planted in my heart.
Show me not the answer,
show me the right questions
to ask. Show me what is right
and I will try as best I can
to do it. I will fail, often.
If I ask for something that does not help me,
show me the error, and lead me to that
which helps me.
Show me how to love, Lord.
Many things pose as love;
how do I sort my w… Continue
Posted on March 9, 2009 at 6:35pm —
Bankruptcy Blues
I was thirty seven thousand dollars in credit card debt. I still had six thousand
to go on my car loan, so that made a debt load of forty three thousand dollars.
How could this happen? I’m legally single, without dependents. I own no stocks,
bonds, properties or other convertible assets. I am a man utterly without
collateral. So, my question “how did this happen?” is a rhetorical
utterance, because I know how it happened. I sp… Continue
Posted on March 8, 2009 at 6:31pm —
Chapter One of "Green Highway: Living a good life in a changing America"
I was looking out over the mesa and talking aloud to myself. A hot
wind was blowing bits of sand and dust into my eyes. Squinting, I wiped
my eyes with my sleeves and protected my face by watching the sunset over
the palms of my hands.
Suddenly the words thrust me back into memory, some thirty plus years,
to a time when my dad had said those same words to me. In all my childhood, my father had seldom spoken harshly, so there was reason for the memory to be promin… Continue
Posted on March 5, 2009 at 4:36am —
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