THE COASTWATCHERS: Chapter Three
Aunt Maddie showed me around the ranch after breakfast. I hadn’t really been able to see it when we drove up the night before. All I could see then was a long dark shape among tall dark trees. The...
Topanga’s Rocket Women
You don’t need to be Elon Musk to build a rocket. There is a group of Topangans who made one. You can see it from the Santa Maria Canyon View Ridge Trail. Look north east about a mile as...
Wednesdays with JMo
Read Part One Part Two: To Chanda No one was surprised to learn in early 2022 that our friend, John Morris, a person with quadriplegia, was going to become a father. It was a bit of a shock, however,...
THE COASTWATCHERS: Chapter Two
Read Chapter One The Coastwatchers chronicles the adventures of James Ellis Anderson, a young boy from Illinois sent to live with his eccentric aunt in Malibu during WWII. In the tradition of fiction from that period, TNT is presenting...
Wednesdays with JMo
Pack the snow. Build up the ramp. Race down the hill. Catch the ramp. Fly. Flip. Come back to earth. Snap. After the accident, JMo rarely says no to an adventure. He’s up for anything, willing to go anywhere;...
THE COASTWATCHERS: Chapter One
Did you know Lewis and Clark were bad at spelling? It’s true. They wrote in their journal that when they reached the Pacific they shouted ‘Ocian in view!’” I know just how they felt, spelling and all. I won’t...
The Dragonfly Pool
[Author’s note. This story is adapted from a chapter of a children’s book, The Goblin Harp, that I’ve been working on for several years. It’s set just about as far away from the Santa Monica Mountains as possible, in...
Life Threads
A Stitch in Time The battered package arrived, still intact despite its unknown travails throughout its ground journey from Cincinnati, Ohio to Topanga. Knowing it was yet another gifting to me from my mother, who has been seriously working...
On Golden Days – Part III
Part III On March 28th, 1979, one of the two nuclear reactors in south central Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power plant suffered a partial meltdown, emitting low levels of radiation throughout the area, delivering the country its worst nuclear...
On Golden Days – Part II
On March 28th, 1979, one of the two nuclear reactors in south central Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island power plant suffered a partial meltdown, emitting low levels of radiation throughout the area, delivering the country its worst nuclear disaster and...
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