Crown of Fire
You may not be ready for yet another coronavirus story. This one, though, has a twist you might find useful at some point… At the end of...
Second Look
Yesterday evening I was picking my way across my cement patio in the deep dusk. It’s a short trip from the garbage can to my back door...
Magician's Action Checklist
We're all magicians, you know. We may get frustrated and discouraged by our apparent lack of influence in the world. We may complain that...
No Time
Not too long ago, on my pre-dawn way to the gym I saw a solitary college student headed purposefully toward campus across the slick,...
Color Bar
A teaser from my just-published memoirs, Opening into Light: As you may remember from my March blog article “Card Catalog,” in the fall...
Small Matters
I wrote this column originally for the NAJPA Newsletter of September 2010. Since my last blog was a pretty heavy-duty one, I thought...
Loving the Devil
You just might have noticed that there’s a lot of fear showing up in our world right now. And since for almost all of us fear is the...
Gene-Child
It began with the octopus under my bed. The octopus was green and had come from Venus especially to eat me. I was terrified of it. Had...
The Touch of Greatness
I don’t remember when I was first introduced to Charlie Crane, but I do remember when I first talked to him. As far as I was concerned,...
Card Catalog
In early summer 1970, I landed in the small town of Mansfield, Louisiana, with no job, no housing, a toddler, a baby and a sick,...
