My Journal

...I mean like adventure. Yeah. Action. The Renaissance man and I'm really a handsome rascal yeah people've been telling me that all my life, and women really do go for me. It sounds awful I know but I can't help it and I get real vain sometimes, like I just look in...

1965 And so we put the top down and were off... chasing the Sun and the wheat was high and the crickets were singing in the summer heat over the hills with the fields stretching for miles to the sky and the radio played nothing but beautiful music until we were...

Because it only seemed like yesterday when I picked up that pastel and applied it to paper. Canson pastel paper, felt gray, number 429 I think was what it was listed as. Because when I first applied that flesh colored chalk to the paper and saw what a beautiful color...

God's testing grounds?... Where Moses went.... And Jesus.. And Paul. Where one can find little to distract from their pilgrimage?... save the heat, the sun, and the sand.... blinding sunlight on white rocks and white sand? where even the "swamp" coolers in the...

The desert and the parched land will be glad Now I don't expect you to share our narrator's final vision (his nemesis certainly doesn't - nor does he share hers), but if you can follow his mindset, perhaps you'll relate on some level. For example, don't we all long...

Ramona the Pest Another blip in the road? Speed bump? Thorn in the flesh? Or all part of the grand scheme? Because I've gone from the ridiculous to the sublime to the ridiculous in this little foray into "paraprosdokian." So lest you have the mistaken notion the...

Because you want to know what I really think it's all about? I'll tell you what I think it's really all about. I mean I know this can't be where I'm supposed to be in the long run and Julia's right about my painting being a God-given talent in some way that's not...

If you've been following the last three blogs starting with Paraprosdokian you'll see the changes in our narrator, some of which are predictable, but like life, many of which were not. Needless to say, though the titles obviously say a lot (The Mendicant, The...

With the turning point comes the realization: Of course when I woke up the next day-ha... I had second thoughts.. yeah... and I must admit the more I thought about it the more I started to wonder about this one, some dusty little place out there in the middle of...

There's a pivotal scene in the second novel of the trilogy Confessions of St. Augustine where the narrator after being told he has TB now questions the importance of his paintings. Throughout the narrative he reflects on the painting above as well as similar ones and...

Just what is a paraprosdokian? For starters, the best way to describe Confessions of St. Augustine. From the first novel of the trilogy to the second novel and finally the third novel, the entire course of the trilogy can best be summed up in that one word....

My favorite Updike short story was A&P, where a young man, a cashier, makes the big break that he thinks will change his life, or so he thinks, by just walking off the job. No such fantasy with the women I see behind the counters checking out my items. Nothing but...