I do play favorites. As a reporter, I mean. I try to love all my stories equally but I just can’t help loving some of them more. Recently, I wrote a story about a local shop owner whose building was badly damaged when a drunk driver crashed into it. The community’s outpouring of love and […]
A few weeks ago a drunk driver crashed into the front of HUBBUB, a popular gift boutique in my hometown of Centralia, WA. The car smashed the front of the façade and sent the driver to the hospital with serious injuries. Shop owner, Rebecca Staebler, was asleep in her apartment at the back and uninjured. […]
If you’re a science fiction fan, especially with a taste for older works, you’ll enjoy reading Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977). I got my feet wet with his “Captain Future” stories, followed by the “Star Kings” and “Starwolf” series. If you’re new to Hamilton’s works this “best of” collection is a good place to start. […]
Well, it’s a book! And not just any book but a novelette. Novelettes run in length between short stories and novellas, in other words, perfect bite-sized reading stories. They were a big hit back in the mid-twentieth century in the magazines. Anyway, it’s a book! And not just any book but an illustrated, pulp-style, space […]
Question for the gallery…how long is your attention span nowadays? Shorter than it used to be, I’ll bet! Micro-fiction goes back into antiquity but seems a good choice for modern, highly-distracted readers. And if a momentary story is compelling enough, the reader will continue to think about it. That’s a writer’s payoff, long form or […]
Everyone collects something. I collect stories. Not books, but stories…and sometimes illustrations too. My motivation in doing this is to learn. In Art classes I discovered the best way to study an accomplished artist is to copy their work, line by line. It sounds tedious, but it’s not. It’s really a fascinating study. Art is […]
I’m so grateful to the readers of LewisTalk. They’ve voted my article, “17 Things to Do in Lewis County in 2017,” a Readers’ Choice pick for January 2017. I’ve got such wonderful friends and neighbors here in Lewis County. Thank you, all. 🙂 Save Save
Every constellation has a story. Many of them represent myths from Greek and Roman Mythology. Ophiuchus always felt like an outsider constellation to me. I studied the stars as a child and I can’t remember ever hearing about “The Serpent Holder/Bearer, Ophiuchus.” Was he even there? He must have been…unless this is some sort of […]
My LewisTalk article “Santa Lucia: the Art of the Perfect Cup” was just voted a top editor’s staff favorite for 2016. As a new writer for LewisTalk I’m doubly pleased to have my work noted and to have it noted so quickly. Onwards and upwards for 2017!
It’s been an interesting 2016. Tonight (on the West Coast of the U.S.), we hold up a glass and bid it farewell. I started out last year in Auckland, New Zealand. A few months later I bought a house. I discovered new friends in my new town, people I already treasure. I planted a garden […]