by mike | Dec 31, 2017 | Aging, Books, Life, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I first ran this New Year’s Eve post a few years ago. Given how relevant it remains, I present it today. Happy New Year! As the year 2017 comes to an end, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/71st of...
by mike | Dec 28, 2017 | Horror, Horror Movies, Life, Movies, Myths & Legends, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
I wonder if these awesome spirits were around when I was a kid in The Bronx. This post first ran in 2014. I grew up in The Bronx, New York City’s northernmost borough, before leaving it for good in 1967 after graduating college. For the first fourteen years I lived in...
by mike | Dec 21, 2017 | Books, Editing, Life, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writing |
I thought that a long-ago read & critique workshop I led would be the death of me—literally. This post first ran in 2014. From the early ’90s to the mid-’00s I facilitated numerous read & critique workshops in my home. At its height I led three of them every...
by mike | Oct 16, 2017 | California, Life, Travel, Uncategorized |
Last week being the second week in October, Jacqueline and I made our annual trip to Idyllwild, a mile-high town in Southern California’s San Jacinto Mountains. My bride’s birthday occurs during this time, and we’ve been driving up to Idyllwild for years to celebrate...
by mike | Oct 5, 2017 | Holocaust, Life, Music, Musical Theater, Thrillers, Uncategorized |
Tolerance and love: we need lots of it these days, and this wonderful show promotes it to the max. This post first ran in 2013. I had the great pleasure of seeing the musical stage production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert here in San Diego. Most of the twenty or...
by mike | Sep 25, 2017 | Ghosts, Life, Museums, Native Americans, Travel, Uncategorized |
The Animas River, part of the Colorado River System, begins high in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado and winds all the way down to its confluence with the San Juan River in New Mexico. On our recent trip to the Four Corners region, Jacqueline and I seldom lost sight...
