It’s a sullen gray kind of day here in Oakland, and I’m puttering about trying to gather my thoughts.  In fact, I am staring at a million little notes scattered across my desk. They say things like: “Drop book off to the Monterey library,” “Contact LA store for reading in the spring,” and “Write every [...]

It’s been a whirlwind week for me with a trip south to Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, where I had events at the laudable Book Soup in West Hollywood and at Chaucer’s in the latter; dinner with producer Martin Ransohoff and his wife at Il Piccolino one night, and the next night with old friends, [...]

So this morning it is totally socked in with fog around my house; the school alarm just went off across the street which sent me running out the door in my pj’s with the code to turn it off (someone beat me to it). Pausing to see what all the commotion is down the street–lots [...]