Buddies in the Saddle

Sunrise sky A portal I passed through this week has surely been another stage of accepting my mortality, which has continued to be lar...

One reader has compared this novel to No Country For Old Men  because of a murderous central character, John Cload, who brings to mind...

Review and interview Frontier fiction did not end with Louis L’Amour. Its themes and issues continue among today’s writers who pla...

Morning sky over the foothills Another birthday came and went this week. I am now 73. With that development, my driver license expired...

Living in San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake, Ina Coolbrith (1841–1928) lost her home and a priceless personal library in ...

Bit of a switch today. This “western” takes place in the outback of Queensland in modern-day Australia. Its central character is an Abor...

Morning sky I’ve been sick this week. After a five-day cycle of chemo, my energy level is depleted, and I have no appetite for much of...