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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Seattle
A Journey into the Wasteland (of Downtown Seattle)
Downtown Seattle isn’t what it used to be. In my youth it was a wonderland, a special place to go for shopping and entertainment. It was safe enough that my parents felt comfortable dropping a group of us kids off … Continue reading
Book Review: Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound by David M. Buerge
When I take my daily walks in my neighborhood in north Seattle, I marvel that so much of the indigenous foliage has survived the carpeting-over by houses, shops, streets, and sidewalks. Majestic evergreens tower high over the tallest buildings, and … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Chief Seattle, Elliot Bay, Native Americans, Northwest history, Puget Sound, Seattle, Washington State
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Book Review: Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle by Murray Morgan
I was born and raised in Seattle, but back in the 1950s and 60s when I grew up, Seattle was very different than it is now. It was a backwater, in fact, compared with many of the rest of the … Continue reading
Sweet Soft Rain
I don’t know if I’m ready to write about Seattle yet. I just got back a few months ago. I was born and raised here, but I’ve been gone for thirty-seven years. Being gone for so long puts things in … Continue reading
The Cold
The main life event I am experiencing right now is the excruciating cold here in Yakima, Washington. As I write this at the desk in my bedroom, the window is frozen shut and icicles hang along the inside of the … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Travel
Tagged cold weather, hitchhiking, India, memoir, Nepal, Rivisondoli, Seattle, travel, Yakima
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Where You’re Meant to Be
No sooner had I begun to get used to Yakima than I was jerked away. But already I am getting ahead of my story. It begins… No, there is no beginning; it only continues… We take up our story in … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Travel
Tagged Henry David Thoreau, memoir, San Diego, Seattle, Walden, Yakima
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