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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…
Read MoreThink 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…
Read MoreDeliciously 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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