Coyote Tracks

Chica , the red, floppy-eared Doby in the soon-to-be-published novel ( Rafael ) that I’ve just finished writing has actually been my dog, ...

    (The following selections are a brief introduction to my forthcoming novel, 'Rafael')    My father:   I have never known a...

Honestly, what’s so damn difficult about being honest?   Telling the truth, and not misleading people, is all that it ever requires.   Wh...

I spent the evening in San Francisco the other day at my son’s concert.   Hadn’t been back there in awhile.   I’ve been living in th...

Placerville’s got talent.   Yes, that’s a fact.   You may not know where Placerville is, but I live near the town.   It’s a smallish com...

    I stood on top of a mountain this morning and surveyed the granite lake below.   A wind was blowing constant across the water raising...

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There’s a band called Third Eye Blind , but this is not about them.   This is about us.   We supposedly have what many religious trad...

I miss Joe Cocker and Janis Joplin. That’s right.   Both of them. Equally powerful, equally mesmerizing, each in their own inimitable ...

I did some traveling through Europe for awhile back in the day, but also settled down periodically to live briefly in various places aroun...