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I’m a former daily newspaper journalist who worked in the Pacific Northwest and New England. Now a book reviewer, writer, editor, iMac user. I founded Rich Litho Media, which provides writing/editing and publishing services for authors and small businesses.
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Category Archives: Spying
Ears like a dog
As an inveterate eavesdropper, one who likes to eat breakfast or lunch alone in restaurants while hiding behind a book, I hear some good stuff. The trick is to practice self-control. To know when to stop listening. When you overhear a particularly good line, time to bail. Whatever follows rarely delivers the promise hinted at [...]
Listening in the ‘hood
There’s a woman walking along the sidewalk out front, and she’s yowling. She sounds exactly like an angry tomcat. I’ve heard her many times before: squeaking, repeating the same odd phrase over and over. One day last month she was cawing like a crow. In my head I call this woman Maeve, a name I’m [...]
Dogs I see
A brown Cairn terrier, looking like a larger version of Toto in The Wizard of Oz, is the most frequent canine passerby I see from my chair at the wide front living-room window. He’s got the deluded confidence of his breed; a small, furred drill sergeant with chest out, legs pumping, eyes ahead. There’s a [...]
Turf
I met The-Person-I’ll Call-Marilyn down the street before her moving van was emptied, and she was calling me “Sweetie” within about 12 minutes. She’s a sturdy woman with perfect cafe au lait skin who favors shorts and tight halter tops, and who–judging by the ages of her offspring–has to be in her 40s. Not a [...]
Front window: the Mustang