I have been practicing yoga for about twenty years. I follow the Hatha Yoga path, the one that is based on controlled breathing, relaxation and long, slow poses. Here is my review of a recent book about the science of yoga by an award winning…
The mental music while fishing was always the cello. Jim Harrison “The Big Seven”
Little items like literature suffocated in the sweep of history. He did recall that the summer after graduating from college before he joined the state police he had read Shakespeare. It was the pure language that stupefied him. He would be in a diner reading…
Life was just life, rolling on in inevitable disorder. Now, however, he was aware that he had to work his way up through the sludge that had accumulated in his life. It seemed compacted in his soul. He wanted the clear cool feeling of a…
Tom Poole was tired of corpses. In those days death had become a way of life. He had been driving north along the Port Arthur highway with the bay behind him,a long shiny seam of water, heading home after a hard Saturday, when the call came…
The body lay face up in a dark cul-de-sc, eight meters off the Hirrenstrasse. The area—near Alexanderplatz police headquarters, was a communist neighborhood of brick tenements and wooden slums. Barlach would never have noticed the corpse had he not stepped away from the street to…
Don’t be a fool and think you can change the picture I’ve drawn you of the future. Look at it this way. Most guys your age would be happy to get a picture of the future that looks as clear as this. On a beautiful, foggy evening,…
A bourbon heartburn woke Jack Darwin at one in the morning. He lay in near dark listening to the fog horns moan across the bay, gripped by anxiety and forgetfulness. He tried to remember how many whiskey sours he’d drunk at Marge’s on Mason Street,…
Theroux, Paul. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2011 (285pp. $25) Before too much of the 19th century had exhausted itself in revolution and bloody war, travel, which had once been the province of solitary wayfarers,…
I am very pleased to announce that my crime novel Schedule Two is now available across a wide array of e-book platforms including Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Google, Apple and others. Consult Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Smashwords to upload one of my favorite books. Many…