Til the Last Hemlock Dies

Years ago when I was a letter carrier for USPS I went into an old two-story apartment quad. On the second floor there was a female cardinal ...

Eleven months until full retirement. I've been planning for this for decades. I won't be rich, but I'll be relatively comfortabl...

This movie looks like it could be fun. People some time back lost sight of the fact that comic book superheroes were created to entertain ch...

I cannot stand group-think and the selling of mass market crap. One of the people who pretty much embodies everything that I hate about poli...

I went to see Harlan Ellison speak a couple of times. I never met him face to face, but over the years he surprised me with phone calls on ...

Carole and I have two camping trips planned for later this year. One at the end of summer, and one in late October. We've already reserv...

One morning when I was a kid--maybe nine years old--I was in our back yard with a pal of mine when another kid we knew came walking toward u...

With apologies to William Friedkin and David Lynch. Truth? Fiction? Who can say?!

I went hiking today in a part of South Carolina where I haven't been in a long time. I logged six hours driving (round trip) and eight h...

My new book BEAUTIFUL BOY is coming out some time this year. I'm not sure of the exact release date, but the principal edits are done. ...

The USA has never done anything of more value than the establishment of National Parks and Forests and their accompanying wilderness areas, ...

I've lost close friends in the past, but no friend as close and as decent a man as my pal, Bill Gronroos. This past weekend I drove down...

One thing my son and I agree on--well, there are actually shitloads of things we agree on--but one of them is that we freaking love Bruce Ca...

I love encountering wildlife when I go hiking and backpacking and kayaking. Those are the activities that most often put me in a situation w...

A movie doesn't have to be slickly produced to make me happy. And it doesn't have to make an awful lot of sense, and it certainly is...

Carole and I watched a great movie last night: Separate Tables, from 1958. The film was directed by Delbert Mann and was based on a play b...

“There’s Something Wrong” At one of my jobs there was a guy who worked mainly nights several times a week. His name was Oliver...

Semi-retired these days, I have a part-time job in a grocery store. As with almost every job before this one it is as a laborer. Similar to...

I have done so much hiking and exploring around Saluda, North Carolina over the years that I've lost count of the number of times I...