I was alone in the deserted Snow Bear lodge, but I thought I heard someone moving around, and on the assumption it was the landlord, I went looking for him.  Instead I found this golden-eyed beauty perched on the rear balcony. A brief web search indicates that this is a Great Horned Owl, though if […]

Does anyone remember The Game of Life?  You drove in a little plastic car around the game board, and if you made all the right decisions, you’d end up with a home in the suburbs, a mortgage, and 2.5 children.  Which was the game’s definition of happiness, I guess. Those zany jokers at Goldman have […]

Fearful, apparently, that American audiences might not know that Max Manus was a celebrated Norwegian resistance fighter, the American release is subtitled MAN OF WAR, so everyone will think the film is about a race horse. Max Manus was the most expensive film ever made in Norway, and is based on Max’s two autobiographical works, […]

I got a little weary of copy-editing entire novels, so I decided to make my Nebula-nominated novelette, Prayers on the Wind, available for your reading pleasure.  You may download it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. It’s only 99 cents!  What have you got to lose? The story was written at the request of […]