July 2018 The promo for NOCTURNE begins: “The worlds of medicine and music collide in NOCTURNE . . .” During an earlier phase of my life,...

July 2018 Ahoy: All Hands on Deck! It’s entirely a matter of speculation, but I highly doubt that Lawrence Kudlow, economist...

Summer Blooms 2018 This French Renaissance poet was deemed by his literary peers to be “the Prince of Poets” or « le prince de poètes »....

2018 Summer Sale What is it with the American need to label everything, including people? I perhaps defy categorization but it hasn’t...

June 2018 There are times when I must break free from the past in order to create. The impulse, or desire, has, at times, caused more than a few people to speak of me as restless, even impulsive. And yet I must confess that my need to take decisive action, to make a command decision, has always been the result of lengthy contemplation and methodical caution. The élan with which I then make my move seems quite spontaneous and capricious, but the change in direction has been p

Spring Showers 2018 At first blush, she has the touch of detail that typifies Dutch artists. The immaculately detailed domestic settings;...

April 2018 The first time I saw Jimmy Stewart in a Western was in The Naked Spur. It was an unforgettable experience. Stewart had...

April 2018 Recording Artists: The Choral Groups They did not have the swing or the swivel or the hair-sprayed sass of Girl Groups, but...

Easter April 2018 Last year, during autumn 2017, a friend commented to me that moving to a new house would really get my creative juices...

February 2018 Home repairs and sprucing up the Homestead for sale have brought Chance to the local Home-Store often enough that the hound...

February 2018 As best as I can remember, three of these stories were written in the space of 4 days, post mid-January 2018, during a...

February 2018 An-tig-o-nee : She is the protagonist, the main character of the classic play of her name, written by the ancient Greek...

January 2018 My novel, THE POINT OF THE SWORD, features a little terrier called Terry. The name might seem redundant, but I hold a...

January 2018 It feels like an early spring here in northern Northern California as I begin the translation of Book Three of THE DAWN into...

A New Year 2018 Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) The great Victor Hugo is known in France as a poet first, and then as a...

Christmas is the time of giving and sharing. I feel especially generous this Christmas season, and I wish to give to readers of this website — scenes from my life, specifically from its past phases. As I move to new stages of my life, I wish to share with you the joy that is the vital spark that moves anyone to a new phase of life. This essay celebrates passages: personal, professional, and emotional — the transitions that are moments to affirm and to applaud and to honor, a

Christmas 2017 The Good Shepherd: Psalm 23 Briefly, I knew a sheepherder from the Basque country in Spain. He was a man of immense...

Making Spirits Bright: Dean’s Take on Peace on Earth The song “Peace on Earth” was written by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke for the Disney...

Mid-December 2017 Last week, during the end of this month of December, 2017, I awoke with the strains in my head of the duet that Ginger...

December 2017 Recently I saw this advertising ploy on a package of cookies that I usually enjoy: Unapologetically Delicious . First, I...