Kamalame Cay/ Kamalame Cove, Andros, Bahamas

Continue

Have you ever gone skinnydipping?

 

You may have felt the freedom of running nude through your backyard, feeling the sun all over your skin and the wind enveloping you like a hug from nature.

 

You may have enjoyed the company of friends who went skinnydipping with you by the lake or the beach.  You may have invited a loved one, a girlfriend or boyfriend to share in that moment of nude freedom.

 

If all of this sounds like a great lifestyle, well, it…

Continue

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”

–Henry David Thoreau



Tired of the air conditioning and needing fresh air, I recently opened one of my kitchen windows and I heard them.  I sighed.  The sweetness of the familiar summer sound mingled with the bitterness of what that sound meant.  The trees thick with the cicadas’ song reminded me that the long-lit warm days of summer are coming to an end.  Then within days, it started, the back-to-school…

Continue

     One of the wonderful things about summers in New England is that almost all of the small towns and libraries have their annual book sales.  Big white tents are set up, and box after box of donated books are organized and stacked on tables - Fiction, Biography, History, Travel,…

Continue




FIND OUT MORE!!


FACEBOOK PAGE HERE…

Continue




FIND OUT MORE!!


FACEBOOK PAGE HERE…

Continue

 

From Chapter 2 of Secret Lives:

 

“Aha, my pretty one,” cackled the hag in the pointed hat. “I’ve got you now! You’re in my power. You’re mine, mine, mine!” Still cackling, she held her squirming captive up close and peered at it until she was…

Continue

 Barbara Ardinger, author of Secret Lives is on Book Tour this month with Pump Up Your Book and her press release appears in the Long Beach Post online edition. Take a look at the press release and then visit her tour page at  Pump Up Your Book.…

Continue

Westende is a quiet little town on the Belgian seaside, situated close to well-known cities such as Ostend and Bruges. It is also the town where my novella The Strangers Outside takes place. For those of you who are fan of the book, I thought I'd share a few pictures of this charming little town as well as of the holiday cabin that I describe in the story.

Read more:…

Continue

Check it… Continue

Keeping up to schedule, Poem 47 in "A Salute to Spanish Poetry: 100 Masterpieces from Spain & Latin America rendered into English verse by John Howard Reid" was written by the celebrated Spanish poet, Antonio Machado (1875-1939)…. 21 such poems are included in the Tom Howard anthology, "Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies."



Sailboat on the Shore



translated from the Spanish of Antonio Machado







Battered by waves,

overgrown by green… Continue

Full disclosure: I am reviewing this book but I did not read the whole thing. And I don’t want to. Forget it. See, this is a greatest hits collection, and I only liked that record, that record and that record. Not that record. 33 1/3 is a series of books written about influential or legendary music albums, and while this anthology does contain many extraordinary pieces about great old albums (e.g. Stones, Kinks, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Neil Young and others), I won’t read an essay,… Continue