Selected Features - Nonfiction Print
Constanly changing features -- I am a regular contributor
Constanly changing features -- I am a regular contributor
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The Living End
You are going to die. How will it come--a bottle of randomly poisoned pain reliever? Lung cancer? When you step off the curb to cross the street tomorrow? When you slip into sleep ten years from now?
We may not know how or when, but we know it is inevitable. We are the only species, evidently, with the burden of this knowledge. Animals, while they have a strong sense of self-preservation, seem to have no idea that tomorrow might not come.
We have been captivated by death, and what may lie beyond, since time immemorial. This fascination has romanticized death in poetry ("I have been half in love with ease'ful Death..." --John Keats), in song ("This is the end, my beautiful friend, the end of nights we tried to die..."--The Doors), on film ("The Big Sleep"), and in books (The Vampire Chronicles--Anne Rice)... (Read More)
The Uninvited
The lonely house
on the craggy cliff overlooking rough seas. Phantoms that cry plaintively in
the night. A madwoman, a scandal, and an orphaned child. The Uninvited has all
the elements of a great ghost story. This is the perfect movie to curl up with
on a rainy afternoon, sipping a cup of hot Earl Grey tea... (Read
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selected tearsheets from Horse Illustrated & Cat Fancy
That's The Spirit!
It's more than
month before DreamWorks SKG's latest animated fare, Spirit: Stallion of the
Cimarron, gallops into theatres, but the promotional machine has been in full
gear for awhile. The studio hopes that Spirit will be "the" animated feature
of the summer season, and they're treating us journalists to a day in a swank
Beverly Hills Hotel where we can interview the people behind the pixels and
find out more about how the film was made... (Read
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My nonfiction has been published in the following magazines...
Ageless LifestyleAnimal People
Australian Appaloosa
Bold
Buzzine
Cinescape
Cat Fancy
Chronicle of the Horse
Conquistador
The Dispatch
Equine Images
Ferrets
Ferrets USA
Girls And Corpses
Girls' Life
Glamour Puss
Gothic.net
The Highlander
Hoofs & Horns
Horror-Wood (movie reviews)
Horse & Horseman
Horseman
Horse Illustrated
The Horse Source
Ferrets
IceRyder
I Love Cats
L.A. Parent
L'Ecran Fantastique
Mr. Horse
Read the West
Ride!
Roussette
Sapphire
Self-Publishing Magazine
The Western Horse
Unleashed
WordWeaving
Writer's Choice Literary Journal