An exclusive peek at Stoner Hero, my new novel
(Ruminator’s Note: This is a sneak preview of the first chapter of my second novel, Stoner Hero, which I’m currently shopping around. Reading it in a state of heightened awareness is highly suggested....
View ArticleClifton Park: a great place to live, work, and see a bear
(This is an update to my earlier post, with new information about actual bear sightings in Clifton Park) A black bear is hanging out in Clifton Park, with several sightings and evidence of activity...
View ArticleOur 3.6 degrees of separation
Four thousand miles from Paris, where world leaders hammer out a pact on global warming, I sit hunched in my Honda CRV, motor idling and heat blasting, in a Park and Ride in Clifton Park, awaiting my...
View ArticleMy daughter, caught in the crosshairs of Homeland Security
Like many air travelers, I view the Homeland Security agents at airports with a mix of gratitude and dread. Thanks, guys, for trying to protect me from terrorists and keeping my flight from getting...
View ArticleTaking comfort from our senseless rituals
Each morning, rain or shine, I walk eight times up a wooded hill, and eight times back down. I do it as part of my exercise regime, and during the back-and-forths I often notice how futile my ritual...
View ArticleMy daughter says I look like a drunk dying lizard
There I was last night at the kitchen table, struggling over what to blog about, when my daughter blurted out: “YOU LOOK LIKE A DRUNK DYING LIZARD!” My own daughter! Honestly, I forget why she said...
View ArticleI am what I am not
I am not a doctor. I am not a street repairman. I do not own a BMW. My photos are not professional quality. I am no longer a Windows user. I don’t smoke. I have little interest in professional sports....
View ArticleMy Top Ten Reasons for why I think I’m insane
I once wrote an entire blog post from the point of view of our toy poodle. It included this sentence: “I was born during an ironic alignment of the planets, whose serendipitous tug/pull of...
View ArticleFast Love in the Alhambra, Part 1
Ruminator’s note: This is part one of my short story about an impossible romance in an ancient part of Spain Early afternoon in Granada, and the air was electric with romance. Men and women on blind...
View ArticleFinding a decent place to write ain’t easy
One morning last week, a white Cadillac crashed nose-first through the front window of one of my favorite writing haunts – the new Starbucks in Clifton Park. I luckily wasn’t there at the time; I was...
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