Double Run

September 8, 2026

Seaworthy

I’m revising my novel about a London kid abducted and taken to Maryland in 1657. “Can you give me a hand?” Stephen asked, “so I can get off the ship before it sails?” The fellow held out his hand without smiling. “Bad news, my friend. It will be some time...

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November 30, 2022

Augustine Herrman, Gentleman Smuggler

One of the historical characters who makes an appearance in my novel Branches and Bones is Augustine Herrman, who is best known for his map of the Chesapeake area. He was also a smuggler. Before there was a Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to transport goods between the Chesapeake Bay and...

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August 15, 2020

Delaware

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest,remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself,shapes it, renders it, loves it so radicallythat he remakes it in his own image.”Joan Didion, “In the Islands,” The White Album.

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November 30, 2019

Double Run: First Chapter

On Saturday, November 23, I went to Portland to attend the awards ceremony for the Oregon Writers Colony’s annual writing contest. I received an honorable mention for the the first chapter of my novel in progress, Double Run. My first recognition for fiction writing! 

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July 25, 2018

My Several Worlds

My days are woven of past and present, real and imaginary. Today I continue to invent the story of a young couple trying to avoid the trading and smuggling schemes of the English and Dutch settlers living between the Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware River, which they called the South...

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June 27, 2018

Double Run overview

My novel set in colonial Delaware and Maryland involves learning on several levels: discovering my own Delaware roots through research, becoming more focused and consistent about writing, and slowly acquiring the skills of writing fiction, which I’ve never really tried before. I’m grateful for the insights of my weekly writing...

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