Samhain, My Kind of Holiday

I’ve never celebrated back to school or football season. For me, September is Hallow-eve and Samhain (sow-win) is an entire magically witchy season (the other 3 seasons & wheel turnings are all related). By the first week in October, my blood is ½ pumpkin spice, ½ Bloody Mary mix with bobbing olive eye balls. My […]

Immortal Mortal: Rambo 5 “nothin is over” (quote-Rambo 1)

Two thumbs up Rambo! Critics be damned! Rambo, the fictional character named for an apple that was likely named after a Swedish immigrant, was dubbed a ‘killing machine’ by his former boss Colonel Trautman. In Rambo 5: Last Blood he’s been lambasted, not only by the media, but by David Morrell, the Canadian author of […]

Dock of the Bloody Day

Killer Nashville mock crime scene 2019 “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?” Leonard Cohen There are days when the best I can manage is to stare into the void and flick a middle finger at it. The words are always there; it’s just a matter of rearranging the letters […]

A Cigarette

In researching one of my novels, An Act of Ambition, about a suicide–or was it murder?–in the Florida Keys, I found the quotes below by Cesar Pavase, Italian author, poet, and translater. He committed suicide following the dissolution of a love affair and figures in my novel. My short story and poem frag resulted… From […]

Madra Duhb (Black Dawg): a tale of dark magic and illumination

‘Sun-murmers’ and sparkles this time of year, and gayly hued buds, prodded by sultry breezes give silly waves…summer also brings fierce storms that overflow rivers and take down power lines, reminding us gods once wielded lightning bolts and slammed hammers into the earth. This is a tale for just such a stormy night… Among the […]