Author Archive

Personal Power

To connect with and hold on to power is high on my list—not political power—Goddess no! Electrical power—pure, simple, plugs. You know the ones—little, big, one prong, two prong or three prong oddly shaped electric plugs that make a male/female connection sexy. So sexy that they light up and energize cell phones, computers, appliances, radios, TVs, and miscellaneous adult and childish toys of all kinds. Titillation that would make Thomas Edison ...

“The President of Mexico and I have cancelled our meeting set for next week.” Wolf Blitzer and his Situation Room’s coverage of Donald Trump’s latest presidential decree caught River’s eye as she slid onto the bar stool nearest the TV. The president’s insistence that a wall would be built along the U.S./Mexican border and that “one way or the other” Mexico would pay, had been the topic of discussion all ...

On the Road

Beyond Cuckoo began as a rant, progressed to disbelief and evolved, or regressed, depending on your perspective, as research and plot development for a novel in progress.

Jack Kerouac wrote his Beat fictional trip on one continuous scroll of paper ‘round and about the same year I was born. Some consider it master-work others as master-dribble—mind blowing prose meant to incite, excite and shock the establishment. Today the establishment, now ...