eat drink and be merry for tomorrow you may be in utah

Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may be in Utah

I wandered, literally, up and down the bruited and brutal ‘Oregon Trail’ which so many nineteenth-century Americans eager (or greedy) for a ‘better life,’ for the ‘American Dream’ set out on, in unbelievably rickety wagons, with children, wives, cattle, guns, food, elders (most in small quantities, except sometimes children) for the Pacific West and Northwest.

Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Wonders

Dear Friends and Readers, Is it possible? Is our Annus Mirabilis almost over? Really? 2020 is not going to jump back and take another swipe at us, sink down with us to the bottom of the ocean, turning off our living daylights?

YouTube Channel, Readings, and Travels

And two night ago I arrived at the Centrum Writer’s Residency in Port Townsend, WA, to write, reflect, self-flagellate (? always!) and look at the Pacific for three weeks.

The Living Dead

Race and America; Political Blackness 2

I Can’t Breathe

Scott Coon reading from Lost Helix

Hey! Don’t miss this, readers! How lucky is it that we can watch the very talented Scott Coon reading from his amazing debut novel, Lost Helix!!! Leave comments and Scott will see them. Buy the book itself from Amazon, Kobo, Powell’s and other sites…. Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Helix-Scott-Coon/dp/1939844681 Barnes & Noble – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-helix-scott-coon/1135144023?ean=9781939844682 Kobo – https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lost-helix iTunes – https://books.apple.com/ca/book/lost-helix/id1490128516 Smashwords – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/993588 Bookshop.org – https://bookshop.org/books/lost-helix/9781939844682 Powell’s – https://www.powells.com/book/-9781939844682 Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50386208-lost-helix Dancing Lemur – http://www.dancinglemurpressllc.com/sciencefictionfantasy