The Outdoors Clique. That’s how I think of them. There are many sub-cliques within the outdoors world, but in Durango, Colorado, I enjoyed mixing with three of them. I’ll never be a real outdoorsman — I’m too lazy — but Read More …
Bookstores. Can’t pass them up. Especially Independents. You may be the same way. I have always been that way. I have always been the kid who wandered into the bookstore at the mall (in the seventies bookstores in malls were Read More …
We pulled into a small farm, surrounded by small farms, from a dirt road fifteen miles outside Durango, Colorado. All around us in the distance we saw mountains. In the fields near us, we watched horses and donkeys, fenced-in cattle, Read More …
Guest Post by Don Nico When it comes to murder, no people do it like the English. Specifically, English villagers. Having traveled through the English countryside and its villages from the Channel to the Mersey, from Bamburgh in Northumberland to Read More …
We were supposed to be at Mount Fuji in Japan today. That didn’t happen. We had scheduled spending Melinda’s birthday exploring Kyoto: wandering through temples, eating in little restaurants and drinking in closet-size bars, all down streets narrower than most Read More …
Camping can be a dirty affair. It was cold a few weekends ago, but Melinda was ready to go, so we went up to Huntsville State Park and stayed in a tent. We slept in all our clothes; Melinda was Read More …
I kept a journal while traveling across India. Not really a diary: observations, criticisms of myself, and an outline of a romantic short story that occurred to me at the Kama Sutra Temples in Khajuraho. (I won’t include any close-up Read More …
Guest blog by Melinda Little I am homesick today. After being in India less than a week I am missing my life in Houston. • I am tired from jet-lag, which has been tremendous this trip: I miss my time zone. Read More …
Guest Blog by Melinda Little I have only been in India a few days, but I am already overwhelmed by this country. (I blame part of that on extreme jet-lag from a twelve and a half hour time difference and Read More …
From Houston to Amsterdam, we have a full flight. And a full, broken plane to begin with. The generator — whatever that is — is broken and we have to go back to “dock”. Then of course we have to Read More …
In the New York Times Book Review of August 24, there was an article entitled, “A Palestinian Neighbor Responds.” It’s a review of Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi. The reviewer describes Klein as “…a New York Read More …
Sandy Lawrence and Aimee Ravichandran helped Robert Andrews launch his new book Champion’s Mental Edge Saturday at River Oaks Bookstore. We previously talked to Robert on Author Talk: Robert’s book speaks not only to the athlete, but to how each Read More …
A conversation between my travel planner and me: “We’re going camping at Joshua Tree National Park and Death Valley starting December 28. In a tent.” “You’ll freeze to death.” “Oh no, it won’t get colder than 50 degrees. We’ll be Read More …
Word count. That’s what my task is, where my mind should be, tonight. We’re back from China and I’m working on the last few chapters of the first draft of the sequel to my novel Murder For Me. I’m twenty chapters Read More …
We spent the morning at the Jade Buddha Temple and the Bund in Shanghai, where I took a picture of Marilyn; then we rested before one of our best travel nights ever. You take chances when you travel — if Read More …