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Three Knights In Denim Armor

Three knights in denim armor. The guy in the middle is Owen Lock, the DelRey editor who persuaded his new writer, Brian Daley, to leave New Jersey and attend Balticon 13 in Baltimore in 1979. As a result, my life took off in a direction I never could have imagined. On...

Sarah Bowman: Heroine Of Fearless

While in California I went to the Presidio in San Francisco to visit the grave of Sarah Bowman, the heroine of my novel, Fearless. Sarah was known as The Great Western. Some wag said she was so tall you had to hug her in installments, and she had enough "sand" for a...

Japan – February 1970

Excerpt from February 1970: On a typical day I get up (ashamed to say it) around 9:30am. It’s so cold I hate to leave the warmth of my futon. Fold up the futon and bedding and store it in the floor-level cupboards. Get dressed, light the heater and hibachi (A large...

Cuernavaca

Cuernavaca's train station today. The train was the link between Cuernavaca and Mexico City, located over the 10,000-foot-high mountains to the north. "Everyone in Morelos was proud of this railroad. The line cost six million pesos and at the peak of construction...

The Wraith Riding Shotgun

The following is an excerpt from the anthology, Forever Texas, featuring the writings of George W. Bush, H. Ross Perot, Phil Gramm, Dale Evans, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, and Lucia. My Texas connection started innocently enough… On that first...

Bill Markley And The Six Riders

At the Western Writers of America's Homestead Auction many years ago I had the high bid for this photo of my friend Bill Markley and six other re-enactors on horseback. (Bill's in the middle). The photo has hung on the wall next to my desk ever since. I can't explain...

Images From The Peace Corps

Told to wear skirts In Venezuela (and maybe most Latin American countries) in the '60's pants were considered provocative and we were warned by the Peace Corps not to wear them. Three of us were assigned there as a team. This is my roomate and teammate, Barbara...