Posted by admin on February 25, 2011 in
Social Networking A couple of evenings ago, my cell phone jangled me out of my concentration. I don’t get a lot of calls—peopled generally text or e-mail me—so it jarred me away from reading a story someone asked me to critique. The call was from my daughter telling me a gentleman had left a message on her [...]
Tags: Austin, blog, Bulgarian, cell phones, Cyrillic alphabet, daughter, Egypt, FaceBook, Greek, Idaho, Libya, Lowell, Massachusetts, Russian, San Francisco, Serbian, Social Networking, spam, Texas, The Wall, Tunisia, Twitter, website, YouTube
Posted by admin on February 18, 2011 in
Guest Blogs One of my favorite types of contemporary fiction is the flash, the short-short, or sudden fiction. I like this type of story for the lyrical way it is composed. I also like that the meaning is generally left for the reader to discern. One of my good friends—California writer Guy Biederman— is an expert practitioner [...]
Tags: "Third Wednesday", breakfast, California, dental emergency, dessert, fiction, Flash Fiction, free lunch, Guy Biederman, joke, Lowfat Fiction, pancakes, Sebastopol, smile, Sudden Fiction
Posted by admin on February 11, 2011 in
Uncategorized Ruby Mountains at Dawn Betty and I just got back from the 27th Annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada not too long ago. As always, the event was a moving, powerful experience that I learned long ago to not try and describe to people. The only way you will know the power of [...]
Tags: bald eagle, cottonwood tree, cowboys, Elko, Humboldt River, Independence Mountains, Jiggs, mule deer, Nevada, Ruby Mountains, Spring Creek, sun down, sun up, The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, The Spanish Ranch, Tuscarora, water ouzel, willow
Posted by admin on February 4, 2011 in
Guest Blogs This week Ken’s blog features California teacher and short story composer Jamey Genna, whose writing is quirky, poignant and her irony will knock you off balance. Well, what I constantly have been thinking about for the past three months are these three feral kittens I trapped, that don’t seem to be all that feral. They [...]
Tags: Calico Cat, cat, cat litter, El Sobrante, feral cats, Fix Our Ferals, Jamey Genna, kitten, midwestern practicality, Oakland, painting, writing
