• Justice Delayed — Commentary on the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for manslaughter for the Killing of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in 1964 and reminiscences of living in Mississippi at the time.

• Mouth-to-mouth — What happens when a 60-year-old man (me) and his wife of 30 years go to kissing school. Yes, we really did it, but only because it was a writing assignment.

• Tupelo of memory — This essay was written for Reed's Gift Shop and Bookstore in Tupelo, Mississippi to be included with copies of my novel Until the Dawn.  It is a memoir of growing up in Tupelo, one of the two settings for the novel.

• Everything for Everybody — life, love and marriage communal style in the 1970s.

• A different room — A story about my son Bill's first week in school

• Twins — Adventures growing up as an identical twin

• Music in the park with Jude Bowerman — One helluva performance by this homegrown blues guitarist

• Survivors — A mother in Olympia, a dying man in Los Angeles, a young hemophiliac in Australia — Victims of personal tragedy find love, hope and family confronting their fears. Living in the Bonus Round - Music, suicide, healing broken spirits -- life and love on the Internet in the age of AIDS

• Writing in Faulkner's shadow: Mississippi writers talking — Writers Barry Hannah, Howard Bahr, Jes Simmons, Larry Johnson and Jack Butler comment on the influence of William Faulkner, from Mississippi Arts & Letters, July/August 1985

• Forgiving — an essay on thoughts about the men who assaulted my son Bill

• Remembering New York — my first few weeks in New York in 1973
   

Essays on Art

• Thornton Willis — Paintings by Thornton Willis

• Seattle grunge Art — A new school of art(?) centered in Seattle

• Simple honesty — Paintings by Trang Nguyen

• The case against wall fodder — A rant against mediocrity

• The challenge of abstraction

• Evidence of struggle — An investigation into the nature of texture

Art Reviews

Note: I have quit posting reviews on this site. To read my latest reviews, go to my blog, South Sound Arts.

• Eugene Parnell — profile of a sculptor and installation artist

• Chauney Peck — Two reviews

• Bill Rades at Art on Center — A review

• David Goldberg at Barefoot Studios — A review

• Rachel Van Citters — A review  

• William Morris at the Museum of Glass — A review 

• Seriously beautiful art — Review of Ron Hinson exhibition at Childhood's End Gallery

• Wood — Review of the 4th annual wood show at The American Art Company

• Louise Williams — Review of Louise Williams retrospective at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts

• Reilly Jensen's simple stories — Review of Reilly Jensen paintings at Baas Art Gallery

• Just getting started — Jo Jenner's 90th birthday exhibition

• Port Angeles Fine Arts Center — visiting a surprising sculpture park

• Alex Katz — Review of show at the Tacoma Art Museum

• Motion and mysticism — Bill Viola at the Tacoma Art Museum

• Staged Events: Royal Nebeker — Review of show at Lisa Harris Gallery

• Gaylen Hansen: two decades of painting — Review of show at Linda Hodges Gallery

• Graves: instruments for a new navigation — Review of Morris Graves sculpture

• Representing L.A. —  Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art’ at the Frye Art Museum

• The new frontier of television and art — Tacoma Art Museum show looks at confluence of television and art 1960-65

• Humpbacks and crossroads — Willie Ray Parish at Bryan Ohno

• Ageless icons at Commencement — Wood block prints by Helene Wilder

• Convergence of innovation and craftsmanship — Review of group show at Childhood's End with Jean Mandeberg, Bob Haft, Kathy Gore Fuss, Deborah Mersky and June Kerseg-Hinson

• The last party — Claire Johnson's paintings document the end on an era

Theatre reviews

Note: I have quit posting reviews on this site.
To read my latest reviews, go to my blog, South Sound Arts.

• A Midsummer Night's Dream — Review of Harlequin Productions' "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

• Shakespeare and Twain — Comments about political correctness

• The Guffman Syndrome — Comments about reviewing community theater

• Critic's Choice — My annual awards column for the best in South Puget Sound community theater

• Radio Golf — Review of "Radio Golf" at Seattle Repertory Theatre

• Southern Baptist Sissies — Review of "Southern Baptist Sissies" at South Puget Sound Community College

• Macbeth — Review of "Macbeth" at Olympia Little Theatre

• Abridged Shakespeare — Review of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)" at Tacoma Little Theatre

• Talking with — Review of "Talking With" at the Garage Theatre

• Cabaret — Review of "Cabaret" at Encore! Theatre

• The Guys — Review of "The Guys" at Lakewood Playhouse

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch — Review of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" at Capital  Playhouse

• Two Rooms — Review of "Two Rooms" at Olympia Little Theatre