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Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards Winner!
I’m happy to announce that You Are Here won first place (mainstream fiction category) in the 21st Annual Writer’s Digest Book Awards. When they contacted me last Friday to tell me I’d won, I waited all weekend for them to … Continue reading
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“You Are Here” Radio Interview
I’ve always hated hearing my recorded voice talk back to me. So I haven’t listened to my latest radio interview, in which I talk about myself, my life as a writer, and some of the ideas that went into “You … Continue reading
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Huffington Post Blogs
I haven’t been blogging much on the website lately because I’ve been working hard on my latest novel as well as contributing blogs on gay issues at the Huffington Post. But if you happen to stumble on this page and … Continue reading
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Yoga, Writing, and The Next Big Thing
I started taking yoga classes in the late summer of 2009, a few weeks before my 41st birthday. I had just recovered from a debilitating back spasm and was determined to strengthen myself against future back spasms. More than three years later, … Continue reading
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Glacier Blue
As the ship crept along the Beagle Channel on the approach to “Glacier Alley,” I realized only then that I didn’t know what a glacier looked like. I guess I was expecting something that looked like one of the ice … Continue reading
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The Bottom of the World
At around six-thirty the next morning I woke up to the pitching and the creaking of the ship. We parted our stateroom curtains to reveal a dark, greenish-brownish mass of rock slide past us. Right on schedule, the ship was … Continue reading
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The Road To Ushuaia
Thanks to the rearranged travel schedule, the ship slid into the dock at Ushuaia – the most southernmost city in the world — several hours earlier than planned. This gave us plenty of time to explore the town as well … Continue reading
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Water, Water Everywhere
Sailing south of Puerto Madryn, we were supposed to turn into the Strait of Magellan for a day of scenic cruising and then dock in Punto Arenas, in Chile. But high waves and gale-force winds compelled the captain … Continue reading
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For The Love Of Penguins
Two days later our ship docked early on a cold and windy morning in Puerto Madryn, Argentina, about 825 miles (1,330 kilometers) southeast of Buenos Aires. From there we took a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride across the empty Patagonian plains to … Continue reading
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Kitchen Secrets
One of the many illusions — perhaps the biggest illusion — that a cruise offers is the constantly available food. We’d wake up in the morning, walk up a short flight of stairs, and there the food was waiting for … Continue reading
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