translucent / anti-microbial / guardian Hello friends — At a certain point — maybe even at the starting point — loss becomes the norm. Purging, shedding, dying. Do we ever get better at it? What does getting better at losing mean? Have yourself a ponder on loss and love in each of these new works: […]
Filed under "Bigfoot Lives"
Writerly Events – January 2024
LIT ANGELS READING AT THE VILLAGE WELL Jan 27 7 PM Quick reminder for compelling, provocative readings from L.A.’s own LIT ANGELS, edited by Francesca Lia Block and Linda Davis. Village Well is one of the best bookstores around. Come for the reading, stay for the books! Plus there will be a tarot reader. Find […]
It’s been a while since…
I’ve written anything much less sent it out and had it accepted and published. But stranger things have happened and I expect they will continue to do so. I love the name of USF’s literary journal, Invisible City. That was part of the reason I submitted there — it sounded like the perfect home for […]
My friends write a lot
It seems my dear writer friends are lousy with new books: Cathy Colman’s book of poetry, Time Crunch, will blow your mind. Period. It does everything poetry does best, with transcendent language, incisive humor, vivid imagery and touch of quantum physics. Magnifique. David Sanders not-so-recently published a beautiful, amazing and dangerous book, which I neglected […]
2 new stories 2 new stories
See what happens? You work on a novel for a year or two or five, and you stop making blogposts. Or do you stop making blogposts because who makes blogposts anymore. Making blogposts isn’t even a thing. Sometimes a thing itself is barely a thing, but that’s why I like them both. Sometimes wrong is […]
Apropos of Zonkeys
I may be extremely late to the party (it happens frequently) but last week I learned about Zonkeys. That they exist. Here’s some sexy zonkey background: The Zonkey is a hybrid animal that is created by cross-breeding two different species of animal that belong to the same genetic group. Technically though, an individual is only […]





