Tag: creativity

Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 3

For this third installment of Recalling Louie and Bruce, we’re looking at some of my favorite high school comic strips and characters I drew way back when dinosaurs still roamed the planet. The first character was Howard Klutz who was prone to all sorts of mishaps in a strip I called The Klutz. Poor Howard … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 3

Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 2

The first panel below shows Leroy with his physician, Dr. Igor, MSE (Mad Scientist Extraordinaire). I used to have a sketchbook with more Leroy and Dr. Igor sketches and comics but it vanished years ago. Maybe some of Igor’s magic potions were the cause. The next three panels show Bruce selling lumber to a customer, … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 2

Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 1

I used to draw comic strips for fun. It was a hobby, nothing more. I loaded sketchbooks with my ideas, jokes (mine and others), and actual finished projects, which I shared with my friends. One of them, a newspaper publisher, published them in a local newspaper she owned. But that happened years after I stopped … Continue reading Recalling Louie and Bruce, Part 1

Remembering, Poem 2025-0104

There has been A LOT of snowfall where I live, so I’ve been snowed in during the past few days. While taking down some of my Christmas decorations, this time of isolation has given me a chance to go through boxes of stuff I have saved over the years. One of them contained some of … Continue reading Remembering, Poem 2025-0104

Fantasy Short Story About Seeing Ghosts: Different Perspectives

Happy Halloween! This is a reprint of an eerie short story I call “Different Perspectives.” * * * The coffeehouse window Larry sat beside reminded him of sitting in his car at the car wash. Except, this wasn’t Get Wet Express. This was another rainy day in Ridgewood, at Mabel’s, on Monday, around eight-thirty in … Continue reading Fantasy Short Story About Seeing Ghosts: Different Perspectives

Bones In the Sand: A Halloween Tale

It’s almost Halloween. Time for a spooky story! “Bones In the Sand” is a short story I wrote in 1991 for my children, especially for my son. It has skeletons in it for all you bone lovers to enjoy on this Halloween. Happy scary reading. It rained on the island for five days. On that … Continue reading Bones In the Sand: A Halloween Tale

Night of the Hell Hounds: Short Stories to Haunt You

Check out my volume of fantasy short stories centered on the eerie town, Ridgewood, available in electronic and paperback formats. Get the ebook here: Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles. Get the paperback here: Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles. You can read … Continue reading Night of the Hell Hounds: Short Stories to Haunt You