Category: Life
-
Avoiding the Bus
I’ve made friends with a number of other writers online over the last several years, and many of them seem to gather annually at a Science Fiction Convention called Liberty Con in Chattanooga Tennessee. That Con limits its attendees (to 1,000 this year, even fewer in years past I hear), and last year, it was…
-
An Ignoramus Looks at Art
I took a 3 week trip hobo-ing cross country from mid-June to early July. This is the first of what may be a few posts about that trip that took the train from San Diego to Washington DC via Atlanta and Chattanooga. One of the first museums I visited in Washington DC was the potentially…
-
An Eccentric Life
Most people would consider my life very strange. I suppose some might call me an intellectual because most of my pursuits and interests are those that exercise the mind rather than the body. An elderly Chinese man once called my wife a scholar, to my ear a more complimentary term, and I certainly agreed with…
-
The Wolf Tale
This is a “guest post” from my wife who died in 2021. It’s a couple days late for Valentine’s Day, but I came across it this morning while reorganizing files on the computer. She wrote this in 2020 after her second heart attack. Below is what she wrote to a friend about this work of…
-
Arriving in California
California is the place of constant reinvention. Starting as the sleepy remote adjunct to the nation of Mexico only to be totally transformed into an almost instant American state by the 49ers of The Gold Rush. Then the Jewish American Dreamers who fled the East Coast and Edison’s stranglehold on the film business to found…
-
A Gringo’s Christmas
The last rays of the sun were slipping below the horizon as we felt the wheels of our Volkswagen van sink into the sand underneath us. My father and I looked at each other, knowing we were in big trouble. It was the day after Christmas, 1973, and Baja California’s shiny new Highway One had…
Musings of a Restless Mind 