A long-absent traveler's return from the snowy northlands to sunny San Antonio, the capital of South Texas and Northern Mexico, inspires "Dispatches from Tumbleweed," This "rolling stone" poet and his wife settle in a San Antonio urban barrio he whimsically nicknames Tumbleweed and through eighty-four prismatic haiku records his first year's impressions for amigos left behind throughout America. In the generation the couple has been away, San Antonio, named for the patron saint of lost things and souls, has exploded into a large complex urban area absorbing the new but holding onto the old....

How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself is a first hand account of what it is like to live with schizophrenia and how it has shaped the life of the author for the better. This book gives detailed descriptions about the inner workings of the mind of a schizophrenic and many concrete ways the author copes with the disorder on a day to day basis.

These spontaneous Zen portrait tales reveal destiny-imbued slice-of-life-moments or whole lives at a glance. Over the past decade I made a practice of handwriting a brief fiction tale in a notebook to start each day. Partly I did this as a stress relief from writing novels. With "flash fictions" I limited composition time to an hour or less. My stories, especially these short short stories, are unplanned. They are "seen" spontaneously in the blank screen of the inner eye. These impromptus depend on a minimalist core of actions and reactions to find closure. That puts them in the more...