Sorry It Took So Long to Reply to You! Вибачте, що вам знадобилося так багато часу, щоб відповісти! As I sit in my warm, well-lit study and publish this post: Weather - San Fernando Valley – a cold winter evening for us of 45°F. Before we go to bed, I will turn on the heat to take the slight...
On Writing – Things Truly Remembered – Boiled Eggs, Fresh Flowers, Chicken Fat, & An Old Cat Not Pictured
Boiled Eggs, Fresh Flowers, Chicken Fat, & An Old Cat Not Pictured Even though I write fiction and nonfiction, I primarily read history - good history that focuses on persons and presents the human element, the pathos, suffering, evil and good, very intimate moments, or just minute details...
A Few Days Ago, I Took My Mail-in Ballot to the Post Office & Paused to Contemplate the Outside Mailbox Now Still Safely in Place
A Few Days Ago, I Took My Mail-in Ballot to the Post Office A few days ago, I took my mail-in ballot to my local post office, more than a week ahead of the actual deadline to vote by mail. As I walked out of the post office after carefully depositing my mail-in ballot in the inside mail slot – a...
Writing In the Shade of Trees, Where it all Began
Writing In the Shade of Trees, Where it all Began *** On a trip to England in 2010, I began to research, and also sought to see and experience, certain aspects of my mom and her family’s life in London before and during WWII. During my time in London that year, I was staying in Brentford in...
Art, Art, Everywhere – Defined not by an Arbitrary, Limited, & Meaningless Rule, but by the Beholding Human Mind and Soul.
Art, Art, Everywhere I have a friend with multiple degrees in art. Years ago, as I remember, he told me his theoretical and working definition of art is that it must be composed of line drawing – be that the entire composition, or a major part of the work, or just some portion with line...
The Unbroken Coffee Cup – Postscript to Broken Coffee Cup Series – A Cup to Wrap One’s Hand Around to Ponder Final Thoughts
The Unbroken Coffee Cup – Postscript to Broken Coffee Cup Series This posting is a postscript to the Broken Coffee Cup Series. And here, the featured photo is the green-rimmed coffee cup, unbroken, intact, and whole, the twin of the broken blue cup, both given to me as gifts at the same time...
The Broken Coffee Cup – I Freely Confess I Broke the Coffee Cup, but I Did Not Break the Fellowship Among my Friends Nor Within the Church I Left – Part 3 – Politics, Idolatry, Pandemic, Second Great Commandment, Theology Mantras.
The Broken Coffee Cup - Part 3 – Politics, Idolatry, Pandemic, Second Great Commandment, Theology Mantras. As I began to prepare to compose and write this last part of the Broken Coffee Cup series - now on the spiritually damaging and distorting effects upon the congregation of the deepening and...
The Broken Coffee Cup – I Freely Confess I Broke the Coffee Cup, but I Did Not Break the Fellowship Among my Friends Nor Within the Church I Left – Part 2 – I Did Not Leave My Friends
The Broken Coffee Cup - Part 2 – I Did Not Leave My Friends This series continues to be difficult to write, being “professional” but, at the same time now, conveying emotional and spiritually deep burdens and concerns. For now, I am trying to reply to or answer – as best as they can be...






