I often find myself musing about the interior life of dogs. What can they be thinking? How does this complex relationship between humans and canines work? MAMA ASCENDED imagines the aftermath of the Tulsa Race Massacre from the perspective of a family dog. Read it HERE

DOG BITES MAN is a curiously horrible dog story that explores the mind of a dutiful canine who seeks retribution and the unimaginable terror of contracting rabies. Listen to my reading HERE



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Thomas “Fats” Waller is radiant energy. Is it physics or science fiction or an old woman’s fantasy? Gardenia Meadows is frightened; is a frosty female warmed and loved by a loveable scamp who plays the stride piano. He creates a safe, but raucous place for her to dwell in and flourish. His is an independent, source of energy. He radiates. He was a musical prodigy. He was, even as a child, compelled to create music. He was ordained by God to sit down at a piano in a room full of people and sail up and down the keys until the myriad rhythms that were created in the room would be akin to heart beats -- arpeggios – the carefree abandon of rippling arpeggios. That is what he gave her. It was a jounce beat -- a cross between a jolt and a bounce -- a jounce. #jounce #jouncy #jouncybeat


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I’m inspired by faces in old photographs. Some subjects are known to me. Others are anonymous individuals found in a discarded album or a neglected archive.