Author James Hankins being interviewed in September 2015 about his thriller story The Prettiest One for Kindle Most Wanted, Amazon’s community for fans, mysteries and suspense novels. (Photo permission and courtesy of James Hankins.) This blog post is the second of a two–part interview with author James Hankins. Following the format I used last…
Leonard Harold “Lenny” Breau (Photo courtesy and permission of Art of Life Records.†) Lenny, how would you describe your music? In what terms? Well, if I had to say something fast, I have to say, “It’s just music.” You see? But it’s a combination of all the different kinds of music that I learned—all…
(Photo (2010) by A. Keith Carreiro) In looking back at the World War Two era, I wondered if I could write a poem that honored my parent’s generation, especially in terms of describing what they were fighting against. From Bascomb’s novel, I took a quote by Heinrich Himmler in reference to Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) and…
(Photo, c. 1944, of my mother and aunt [left to right]: Martha Louise & Francis Elizabeth “Betty” de Sousa.) In my first blog, I wrote about the resolution I made to myself in compiling together and updating all of the poetry I had written to that time (1965-2014). Doing so helped me establish a regular…