Life, death, memory, attachment

Life, death, memory, attachment

If you’ve read earlier books in the series, much of what you’ll encounter when you pick up City of the Dead will look familiar. For instance, you’ll already know that… Bal’a’Blos, the legendary underground library, is a real place that is also: 1. Populated by some...

Thanks a lot, 2022

So anyway, the best way for me to put 2022 in my personal context is this: I’d planned to publish two novels this year, but only got halfway there. Ta Nupa came out in April, and I’d hoped to have City of the Dead on sale before Solstice. That ain’t...

Writers in Beaufort

Things around The Manor have been so herky-jerky-disjointed in recent months that I’ve just skipped the last two windows for the email newsletter. It’s not that I’m quitting the newsletter. It’s that “news” is the premise of a...

Re-watching Troy

The 2004 movie “Troy” is currently on Netflix, and I started re-watching it three or four nights ago, just a bit at a time. I remembered enjoying it when it came out, but my impressions of movies often change. How would it hold up? Remarkably well. But...

Ten Paths of the Mullaqat

Avoid attachment.  Accept suffering.  Release worry. Experience perfection.  Choose simplicity.  Observe with curiosity.  Mind your own business.  Learn from nature.  Be kind. ...