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...

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

California Winter Solstice 2017 The New Normal has become people saying, “It’s the new normal.” They claim random events are the New...

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...

November 2017 There are 6 Thin Men movies, the original The Thin Man and 5 sequels. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced these films from...

“Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” There is no way to describe “shoe love” to a man. The emotional transport truly does defy...

Giving Thanks I am giving thanks for the godsend of consequence, the harvest of coincidence, the friend who came by happenstance and...

The American Hero For just one moment he felt the thrill of the battle the daring to go desire compelled him to face fear and know the mission was worthy of this nation so true to the concept of freedom the red white and blue. He’d wanted to touch her one fleeting last time to hold her and tell her this mission divine comes to each woman and to man: to stand and be counted — to humbly demand their place among the valiant and the heroes who tried, the victors who lived or died

November 2017 There are new garage doors to the “barn” that comprises our garage. The two wooden doors were relics from the early 1960s....