The Thrilling Detective
(One of my favorite sites, which promotes itself as "the
perfect waste of time for fans of fictional private eyes
and other tough guys in books, film, television and radio")
Frank, the film
My old (but not that old) friend, Curtiss Bradford, is
producing this film about "Four legs, Five lives...One
summer"). Check it out.
Screenwriter
Dennis Palumbo ("My Favorite Year"),
who's also a psychotherapist specializing in creative issues
and is the author of Writing from the Inside Out
My father, whose research
was in ghost towns and mining towns of the southwest,
was always enthralling the family with colorful tales of Colorado,
New Mexico, Texas history.
I never dreamed I'd actually one day move to Colorado--now
I'm hooked on the area's history, too.
Below are a few of my favorite "local" history links:
The
Colorado Historical Society
A wonderful resource for Colorado history
(Special thanks to Meg Van Hess, in their Archeology and Historical
Preservation Program,
who's graciously given her time and expertise to help me research)
Here are a few fave writing
quotes, and some non-writing ones, too!
"How do I work? I grope." ~Albert Einstein
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." ~Woody Allen
"It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City
in order to be unhappy." ~Groucho Marx
"The difference between the right word and the almost
right word
is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." ~Mark Twain
"It seemed the world
was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept
better...
while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more." ~Woody Allen
