East Coast snowstorm?

Allow me to back off from blogging about writing and books for a moment.  There’s an interesting dilemma brewing for weather forecasters in the Eastern U. S.  (Thankfully, I’m retired and really don’t have to worry about such things anymore.  Now I’m just a strap-hanger and kibitzer . . . and blogger.)  Here’s what’s going…

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Think EYEWALL Without the Ocean

“Uh oh,” I said to myself, after reading an email from an old friend of mine who lives in the Pacific Northwest.  “This could be a problem.” My friend, Barbara, like me, grew up in western Oregon where thunderstorms are few and far between, and supercells—the most violent of all thunderstorms, the kind that spit…

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Deliciously Sleazy

As a way of raising the curtain on my new Website, I’d like to introduce you to Jerry Metcalf, a key character in Supercell.  Jerry isn’t necessarily a likable guy.  But he is, as one reviewer put it, “deliciously sleazy.” Metcalf is a self-proclaimed “chief of staff” for Global-American Cinema.  “I make sure stuff gets…

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