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The Summer of Love Experience: Literature
This is the first in a six-part series on The Summer of Love, inspired by The Summer of Love Experience exhibit at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. We’ve been down this road before: an unhinged, paranoid president, wars built on lies, emboldened racists and misogynists blaring their hate through mass media into the public… Read more
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In A Heartbeat
A life flashes, a life fadesA life goes off like a hand grenadeA life is broken, a life is madeIn a heartbeatIn a heartbeat I knewThere was no forgetting youBut if you want I’ll pretend toIn a heartbeatIn a heartbeat I’ll makeThe unforgivable mistakeGive me your hopes and watch them breakIn a heartbeatIn a heartbeat… Read more
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Carried On A Breeze
Honored to have my short story Carried on a Breeze published recently by Sick Lit Magazine. Click on the title to read it. Read more
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Only A Pawn In Their Game
In anticipation of a six-part series on The Summer of Love, I’ve been visiting the sources of inspiration behind the explosion of ideas that characterized 1967 in San Francisco. Some of the most profound signposts on the road to the city by the bay can be found in the lyrics of Bob Dylan. A… Read more
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Springtime Sketchbook
I don’t remember ever seeing as many flowers as I’ve seen this Spring. Daffodils, tulips, pansies, posies, hyacinth, daisies, and morning glories. You can’t swing a dead cat in this town without hitting one.“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know… Read more
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Matt Kennon’s Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc’s story is one of the most fascinating biographies in history. A girl, guided by the voices of angels, leads the armies of France to defeat the English. She is captured, convicted of heresy and burned alive by the same Catholic Church that would one day declare her a saint. Just as… Read more
Words & Music 