It’s been a year of premiers, the big events that mark chapters in life. Where to start? We all strolled the red carpet to meet Kellen...

My ancestors were at the first one in 1621. Teenagers Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland survived that first winter when her parents died...

The book launch at Queen Anne Books in Seattle went well. The book store staff (thank you Tegen) was very gracious and had a beautiful...

My own copies are in and they are beautiful. The publisher is arranging local media interviews and a launch party. Stay tooned. #books...

I just concluded almost three weeks of trial to terminate the parental rights of a father whose three children were removed from the home...

Ours was a medical malpractice case. A surgeon mistakenly cut a nerve which was in an unexpected place (no it wasn’t the plaintiff...

While living in San Francisco, the dates to appear invariably interfered with some personal business. One time, we left a wedding...

#family #familyhistory

In order to keep up my blogging I am posting from Freeland on Holmes Harbor on Whidbey Island. We have a home here and are spending the...

The North Bend Theater dates from 1941 when it opened to newsreels of the Second World War and the latest Hollywood features. A newspaper...

I just read an article (online) about the most recent BookExpo America convention in New York which points out some important points...

Yesterday, I drove to Portland to meet with a class of twelve university students who read and critiqued my historical novel Down The...

My wife Lorraine and I tagged along on this property hunting trip because it seemed like a harmless way to spend a Sunday. I hadn’t been...

Surfing the ads on Craigs List does work. They have two categories for writers and I found an ad that caught my eye. I am now under...

The title and the photo are related, really. I grew up in Stockton, California which was home at the turn of the 20th Century to Benjamin...

(This is from last year.) Somewhere it is written that boys must join Little League where they will learn about physical fitness and...

I got to use the truck while I was a member of the Civil Air Patrol in Sacramento. The CAP is nominally the auxiliary of the U.S. Air...

I drive a pickup these days, but it isn’t my first. My dad bought our first pickup in 1965 for $100 from a Japanese gardener named K....

A minor interest of mine (it doesn’t yet rise to the level of hobby) is strategy and simulation games for the computer. I have always...

I completed the major revision in my historical novel Down The River that the publisher was looking for. I had one of my writing...