“Ring the bell that you can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in” – Anthem by Leonard Cohen I worked on writing my story every day for three years, from 2010 to 2013. Then, last Fall, I took a full time teaching job with a […]
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt August already… the “golden rollin’ hills of California” People have told me that my working title, Death of the Gecko, is confusing because it sounds like a story about the Southwest, which it is not. So, after brainstorming with a friend,
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The Santa Barbara Writers Conference was an outstanding experience. I took the Pacific Coast Starlight down to the conference. Salinas to Santa Barbara. Good solitary writing time in the observation car. Interesting characters on the train. Beautiful landscapes, never seen from the highway. California Coast from the train One of the highlights for me
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I’m at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference. Today was Agent’s Day. I met with five agents, who each read my first five pages and heard my pitch. All of the agents were shocked and amazed by the fact that methyl bromide and chloropicrin are still being used to grow strawberries. All felt strongly that the
Spent many years teaching watershed ecology to little kids. Death of the Gecko is a story about watershed ecology for grown-ups. Had a dream the other night. I was at a university, and it was the end of the semester. A professor of geology or geography was looking over his text books, and I was
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