by mike | Sep 4, 2017 | Aging, Life, Uncategorized |
Actually, I walk lots of lines: straight, crooked, whatever. It doesn’t matter, as long as I’m walking. As my Facebook friends know, The Walking Dude—that’s me—set a goal of 600 miles for 2017, and that goal was reached around the middle of last month. Not too shabby....
by mike | Jun 12, 2017 | Humor, Life, Movies, Spirituality, Travel, Uncategorized |
Sedona is a funky town in central Arizona, one of our favorite places to visit. Sedona is also a 2011 indie film, a comedy-drama that, unfortunately, not a whole lot of people got to see. That’s a shame, because the movie more than capably reflects both the stunning...
by mike | May 29, 2017 | Life, Movies, Native Americans, Science Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
“Dammit, I know this. I know what this is! This means something. This is important.” When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) uttered those words forty years ago in the classic Spielberg film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he was attempting to shape the Devils Tower...
by mike | Apr 17, 2017 | Life, Non-Fiction, Travel, Uncategorized |
Did the newlywed couple drown in the river and get washed out to sea? Were they murdered? Or did aliens abduct them right out of their boat? Nearly ninety years after Bessie and Glen Hyde set off down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, their disappearance...
by mike | Feb 27, 2017 | Books, Editing, Life, Read & Critique, Uncategorized, Writers' Conferences, Writers' Retreat, Writing |
What does former National Basketball Association great Bill Russell have to do with leading classes and workshops about writing novels? I’ll tell you…shortly. But, first things first. MY STUDENTS NEVER KNEW I began facilitating novel-writing workshops in the early...
by mike | Dec 12, 2016 | Death, Life, Magical realism, Movies, Uncategorized |
If you’re a movie buff, you would probably jump at the chance to see a film starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey and Oscar nominees Naomi Watts and Ken Watanabe, three outstanding actors. Well, they all performed in the 2015 drama, The Sea of Trees, and I’ll bet...
