Beyond Burning Man

Those of you who have read the complete Frank Adversego canon may recall that in The Lafayette Campaign our hero came close to attending the Burning Man Festival. The following describes my own near miss in 2005. If you consult an on-line map of Nevada, you’ll see...

A Writer’s Perception of Reality

Scientists and philosophers have struggled for years to define our relation to reality, or even to decide what “reality” might be. The rest of us mostly muddle through the daily experience of our existence.  For a writer, perceptions of reality are also...