Long overdue, as I've been living in the new house for 6 months now, but I finally started organizing the books. I had just emptied box...

But interestingly, the story I most want to work on after a break from writing is the broken POW novel. That fascinates me, that despite th...

Of all my passions -- and I have many -- opera tops them all. Movies, books, writing, film scores, Combat!, etc. They all pale next to my ...

You're Siddhartha ! by Hermann Hesse You simply don't know what to believe, but you're willing to try anything once. Western val...

The first half of my Combat! fanfic "Murder's Melody" is up at Fruit Salad ! It's so much fun writing these stories. Th...

Watched this film tonight. Yul Brynner looks mighty fine. Of course, he always looks mighty fine. Such an intriguing person, Yul Brynner....

1955, with Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March. Odd. This is a fine movie with a fine cast -- and I didn't like it. There's absolut...

I still can't figure out the bits of the POW novel that are hanging me up. So, time to wait for it to settle out on its own. I was wor...

with the POW novel. There's something I haven't figured out yet and until I do, it's not working. Spent a bit of time today m...

So, I started reading Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" about a month ago. And I'm not even halfway done. I was s...

Okay, I've always liked Arthur Kennedy. I think the first thing I saw him in was Bend of the River way back in my youth, and I always...

Today, I started in on POW rewrites, not necessarily by choice -- wasn't going to work on this one until the new year -- but because the...