Writers who inspire me
Memoir -- what is it? While autobiography is concerned with the names, dates, and milestones -- generally of celebrities, politicians, and other "historically significant" people -- it is through memoir [...]
Spouses and lovers are more than muses. Sometimes they function as silent partners in the creation, freely allowing their mate the needed time and space to work. As silent partners [...]
Stretching Silver Through Blue Haze -- a marriage of poetry & visual art Stretching Silver through Blue Haze is a collection of 38 poems by Lawrence Gregory and 21 [...]
The American-born seafarer William "Bully" Hayes was a notorious celebrity in his own lifetime and in the century after his death became the antihero of numerous accounts, novels, secondhand memoirs [...]
Bob and I had the pleasure of meeting author Sam Low and his kinsman, navigator Nainoa Thomson at Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo, Hawaii, last June at a book talk [...]
This is the summer for Jane Austen festivals; this, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice. I'd love to attend one of these celebratory functions where I imagine [...]
I’ve been tagged twice for a round-robin blog called The Next Big Thing; once by Alaric Bond and once by Helen Hollick, authors I've had the pleasure to have met [...]
"Constellation is going into battle,” Truxtun went on. “Do not doubt it. She won’t be ready for sea by March as Mr. McHenry would have it, but by summer, yes. [...]
“Teach me the sea, Mister Farrell. Tell me the names of the ropes, and the ways to steer a course. Teach me of the sun and the stars, and the [...]
An interview feels a lot like looking in the mirror first thing in the morning. Ack! Let me brush my hair and put on some makeup! Frankly, it's a little [...]
