During my artist’s residency at Guadalupe Mountains National Park in the Chihuahua Desert, I crafted set of daily meditations.  These are catalyzed by the sources of religious inspiration adopted by Unitarian Universalism:

Spiritual teachings of Earth-centered tradition...

Last month, I served as the artist-in-residence at Homestead National Monument outside of Beatrice, Nebraska.  Having come to believe that constraints catalyze creativity, I chose the number 160 to shape my writing—the number of acres that a pioneer could claim under t...

          We (eight Americans and seven Moroccans, along with a French documentarian and a Japanese funder) pulled off a performance of Locust: The Opera in Agadir, Morocco, at the 13t...

Earworms are songs that stick in your head.  Midland, Texas, is my eyeworm.  Cultivating a noir sensibility means looking keenly into dark, bleak, and dangerous settings: the back alleys of New York (Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder), the fetid underbelly of Chicago (S...

In December, I snuck away for a long weekend in San Francisco to research settings for my next book in the Riley Mystery series.  Having begun my writing life in non-fiction, I feel compelled to experience a place where I’m going to have action unfold.  I could make up...