Beyond Cuckoo

Sometimes it’s difficult to pull a story from a place—especially when its secrets are so well hidden. This is the case with my work-in-progress, “River” a contemporary environmental novel encased in archeological digs, folklore, religion and legends that intertwine with wide-ranging beliefs in the lost continents of Mu, Lemuria, and Atlantis.

My jump off point began with a trip to Mesa Verde National Park ...

The Stanley Hotel Shines 

Unstable weather and thunderstorms came in quick succession all through the day of our Estes Park visit. In anticipation of downpours we scheduled a tour of the Stanley Hotel which inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining”. As a sensitive, I can usually tell if a place is uneasy—if it holds on to its past in an ungodly way—a place where time unusually overlaps. I assure you—the Stanley Hotel ...

Medicine Bow Wyoming

Webster’s New World Dictionary defines a pilgrimage as a journey to a shrine or holy place and/or any long journey to a place of historical interest. Exploration of the American West has become my pilgrimage. If you’ve read my memoir, Balanced on the Edge of the Crowd, you already have a sense of me and my early trip west from the Big Apple as a teenager. Now, as a calmer ...