The Saturday Evening Studio Series

A Christmas Dream on the Mississippi

A Christmas Dream on the Mississippi

March 14, 2026 From my Christmas book, written three years ago, the story that inspired my Studio Series. The notebook sat open, already expecting me. That is how it starts...

A Christmas Dream on the Mississippi

March 14, 2026 From my Christmas book, written three years ago, the story that inspired my Studio Series. The notebook sat open, already expecting me. That is how it starts...

Lantern-Lit at Week’s End

Lantern-Lit at Week’s End

Why I Created the Saturday Evening Studio Series By day, I build intelligence systems. By night, I write stories ... lantern-lit stories filled with faith, wonder, adventure, wit, and the...

Lantern-Lit at Week’s End

Why I Created the Saturday Evening Studio Series By day, I build intelligence systems. By night, I write stories ... lantern-lit stories filled with faith, wonder, adventure, wit, and the...

Halfway to Brooklyn

Halfway to Brooklyn

I called BART a subway because in my mind I was halfway to Brooklyn. Don’t ask me why. All I knew was that everything about that place seemed perfect. It...

Halfway to Brooklyn

I called BART a subway because in my mind I was halfway to Brooklyn. Don’t ask me why. All I knew was that everything about that place seemed perfect. It...

Bullard Street: Becoming a Legend and My Greatest Bad Idea

Bullard Street: Becoming a Legend and My Greate...

I sat in the studio late last night, smoking a Hemingway cigar, sipping Almave, and thinking about the kid I used to be. Sober now. Older now. Still drawn to...

Bullard Street: Becoming a Legend and My Greate...

I sat in the studio late last night, smoking a Hemingway cigar, sipping Almave, and thinking about the kid I used to be. Sober now. Older now. Still drawn to...

Bullard Street: Becoming a Legend and My Greatest Bad Idea

Bullard Street: Becoming a Legend and My Greate...

I sat in the studio late last night, smoking a Hemingway cigar, sipping Almave, and thinking about the kid I used to be. Sober now. Older now. Still drawn to...

Bullard Street: Becoming a Legend and My Greate...

I sat in the studio late last night, smoking a Hemingway cigar, sipping Almave, and thinking about the kid I used to be. Sober now. Older now. Still drawn to...

Cyrano Until the Music Started

Cyrano Until the Music Started

I had five girls I loved. Not in a loud way. Not in a movie way, but ... in the way a boy loves when he has history with you....

Cyrano Until the Music Started

I had five girls I loved. Not in a loud way. Not in a movie way, but ... in the way a boy loves when he has history with you....