April 24th, 2008

Viewpoints updates and all these new members are exciting. The warm culture of the website continues. Thanks for the ratings, comments and making me feel good that I

April 24th, 2008
Viewpoints updates and all these new members are exciting. The warm culture of the website continues. Thanks for the ratings, comments and making me feel good that I am contributing essays, reviews and even a little poetry to a website that is living up to its promise!

March 18, 2008
Time flies by. Thanks for the comments, good points, and reading my stuff once in a while. I've been writing here for a year already!!!

February 27, 2008
The Oscars and Spirit Awards are done. Remember to click on the Good Points for anything you read that you believe was written fairly well. Even if you don't agree with the opinion, if you want the writer to keep writing, a Good Point is like a pat on the back. Yeah... keep writing, I want to read something else you wrote. Anyway, too bad Sidney Lumet's latest film was overlooked, but do be sure to see it when it comes out on DVD in April. Anyone in the Seattle area should email me and get on my literary list to find out about readings prose and poetry and more. Enjoy 2008, Leap Year, and KEEP WRITING!!!!

January 4, 2008
It's 2008 !!! Hope everyone is enjoying Viewpoints, the writing, the making of new connections. Encourage and mentor other writers--most will appreciate it very much. Remember to Good Point and comment more than you ever done in the past. Make people your friends too!!!

December 18th, 2007
Happy Holidays to everyone. Be a FAN and Good Point the writers you check out around this wonderful, growing place that continue to attracts great people, and writers. Write On!!!!

November 17th,2007

Back from Los Angeles and fun time brushing up against people like Helen Mirren, Taylor Hackford, Gary Marshall, Gore Vidal, Larry Gelbart, and many others. The best part was seeing old friends, spending time with my nephew, getting some friends and acquaintances to witness my reading with Michael C. Ford and Laurel Bogen -- making a few new friends and then returning safe and sound to the Pacific Northwest. Now how about remembering to click those Good points. C'mon you can do it. Keep writing !!!!

October 22nd.
Some of you know I'm an active poet, curating and hosting poetry readings and sometimes presenting my own stuff. If you're near Venice, California on November 10th, come see the show at Beyond Baroque at 7 p.m. Michael C. Ford, Laurel Ann Bogen and Chris Jarmick present Poetry on the Dark Side. In the meantime do more reading of reviews, don't forget Good Point clicks and KEEP WRITING.

Sept 1, 2007
I encourage you to hit the GOOD POINTS button on all reviews you read through. Please leave comments of agreement or disagreement as you have time to do. I love feedback from folks and will try to respond. Busy schedule at work, home, and a few writing projects have kept me a little less active at viewoints than I would like to be. Still hosting poetry readings and doing some reading myself around the Seattle area. KEEP WRITING!!!

August 8, 2007
Busy, crazy month for me. I look forward to this community growing and becoming even more interactive. Thanks for the comments, the good points and of course the compliments. Some wonderful people are around these parts. Have fun. Keep writing.

July 2, 2007
I write to be read and Good Points checks and comments make it official that someone is out there reading my writings. I can talk in the mirror all I want, it's not going to help me grow as a writer.

Thanks for reading, rating, commenting, & letting others know to browse around viewpoints and read, rate comment. Oh and you can write about things too!!!!

June 30, 2007
I've been challenging myself to get not just a large volume of reviews posted, but to try to make each one informative and fun to read. Some I've taken even more time with to try and be a litlte more creative with my presentation.

I decided to follow my 50 Great Movies with a Great Kids and Family Movies series and then a Worst Kids Movies series.

Any 'series' ideas your craving for me to do? Great Baaad Movies, Great Cheesy Movies, Best Romantic Movies, Best Sports Movies, Best Horror Films, just drop me a line on what you'd like.

Thanks for the points, comments and encouragement.

April 2007

Hopefully my contributions inform, entertain and don't contain too many misteaks.

I'm an avid film buff and afficianado, a writer, and poet who grew up on the East Coast, spent waaaay too much time in Los Angeles and now live in Seattle. I host two monthly poetry readings in the Seattle area on a monthly basis. I have contributed essays, articles, and interviews regarding film directors, writers and more to a variety of magazines and newspapers. I co-wrote the suspense novel, The Glass Cocoon with Serena Holder.