Our good buddy Ray Beimel in Pennsylvania sent this for today’s blog:
The Best Hike In Penn’s Woods
For being a populous eastern state, much of Pennsylvania is still wooded and…
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The beautiful and generous Hawaiian author of Shark Dialogues, Kiana Davenport, has written a blog post on her favorite books of 2011 and included my The Old Mermaid’s Tale as one of them. In it she writes:
Valentine’s writing is so sensuous and…
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It can be dangerous for a couple when one person falls in love with someone else — but what happens when they both love him? This is from my short story “The Haven” which is one of the stories in My Last Romance & other passions:
THE HAVEN
“Tell…
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Part TwoKathleen: Well, there seems to be a popular sentiment among a lot of people that the problem with contemporary sexuality is that, as they put it, we “forget our animal nature”. I’ve heard this argument from a lot of people and I find it ri…
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Part One
Kathleen: Skye, you and I have known each other for quite a few years now and, though what we write about is very different, we deal with a lot of the same themes. I recently read your book Sex Magic for Beginners and, even though I’m not ent…
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Our good buddy Joe Ciarmitaro writes one of the best blogs in the blogosphere. Today he has two historic documents about the sinking of his grandfather Guiseppi Ciarmitaro’s boat, The Ben and Josephine. I’m posting a little taste below but you have to …
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Back in the days when word processing machines were making their debuts in offices we used to joke a lot about getting White-Out all over the screen. Today most people in offices don’t even know what White-Out is/was. Now with the exploding popularity …
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Everybody who was alive and of reasonable age in November of 1963 remembers where they were when they got the news that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. For some reason we had the day off from school that day and my friend Sue…
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About seven months ago I made a decision. I decided that if I was ever going to amount to anything as a writer I had to shut myself up, turn off as many distractions as possible, become a hermit, and divide my time between work, writing, and promoting…
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This is from my novella, Arthur’s Story: A Love Story, which is free all day Saturday and Sunday (Dec. 31 & Jan.1). It is a warm, inspirational story about a lost boy in pre-WW1 New York City. Arthur is 13 and on his own alone. Through a long, hard…
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seARTS does a lot for its artist members and has started a new service called ArtBytes which features write up on the accomplishments and successes of its members. These eblasts are distributed to seARTS’ vast email list. This is part of the ArtBytes e…
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The Old Mermaid’s Tale has been selling very, very well lately which makes me so happy because it is dearer to my heart than almost anything else I’ve written. Along with The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt’s Wood and my cookbook/memoir, Fry Bacon. Add O…
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The Old Mermaid’s Tale has been selling very, very well lately which makes me so happy because it is dearer to my heart than almost anything else I’ve written. Along with The Reluctant Belsnickel of Opelt’s Wood and my cookbook/memoir, Fry Bacon. Add O…
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UPDATE: I am experimenting with Amazon’s KDP Select Program to offer free books. On Friday & Saturday (Dec. 30-31), Fry Bacon. Add Onions will be free and on Saturday & Sunday (Dec. 31-Jan.1) Arthur’s Story: A Love Story will be free. Click the…
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This is my blog post from Dec. 25, 2010! What a difference a year makes!
It was a wild and windy night but the lights stayed on so no complaints. This is the backyard this morning:
Stay warm and dry wherever you are and thanks for reading…
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