Pony Express Reading at Stories on Stage
Stories on Stage Davis will feature a reading from On the Pony Express Trail. The reading will take place Saturday, February 10, 2024 at Pence Gallery in Davis, CA. The…
Winters Meditation
Ride from Davis, CA along the Willow Canal (from Road 95 west) to the Winters Putah Creek Nature Park on April 15, 2020. The footage seemed meditative, more as if…
Rick navigating the overgrown levee road
Rainy Day Ride
I went for a ride with my friend Rick today. Because we are all social distancing, we took separate cars to the place we started from and rode a loop…
Spencerian Penmanship practice book
Learning to Handwrite
I have been training myself to handwrite over the past few years. It's a lot harder than I ever would have thought. My writing has always been bad. I remember…
Lost Horizon Bookstore
Used Bookstore Tour
A couple of weeks ago I drove to Southern California. The rest of the family was already there, at a campground, and I drove down to met them. This has…
Steinbeck and Travels With Charlie
It turns out that Steinbeck™s purportedly nonfiction account of his tour of America circa 1962 in a camper, Travels With Charlie in America, may be largely fiction after all. Maybe. …
Fiction is Dead
Well, maybe not dead. But according to Buce, picking up from Tyler at Marginal Revolution, it's on the skids. That is, they both seem to feel that the quality of…
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
My last post was about a flash fiction story I wrote that dealt with the atmosphere of tension in a corporate lawfirm. It was a small example, and pretty civilized,…
Food, Sex, Danger
Susan Weinschenk is a psychologist with a book (Neuro Web Design: What makes them click?) and a website (What Makes Them Click). On the website, she is running a series of articles entitled œ100 Things You Should Know About People. As of this writing, she™s up to thing number 47: œPeople Value A Product More Highly If It Is Physically In Front Of Them.
Signing Up
Part of the process of becoming a writer these days is signing up. Services abound. Resources are overwhelming. Many are free, unless you count the time you take to search, scan, read, save, post, forward, or archive them. All of them require at least a little time commitment. I signed up for two things today.