First Reviews on my True Crime Book, “The Darkest Glare”

"An entertaining true-crime period piece built around a…


Yeah, I’ve seen the bridge — the Colorado Street Bridge and a jam session that changed me

How an obscure song from the Hammer-of-the-Gods band grew…


The Fire That Crackled Inside of Me

Up in the foothills was a wasteland of smoke. You could…


I’ve waited long enough: the story of the Man in the Light

The baseball cracked off the bat, vanishing into the…


THE QUEEN AND ME

Pasadena’s fabled Colorado Street Bridge consumed eleven…


The Boom that Blew the Petals off the Rose City

E.C. Webster, it was said, could’ve sold plots on Mars for…


Lucretia Garfield: South Pasadena’s Lady in Perpetual Mourning

By the time she settled into her South Pasadena dream…


Ghosts of the Colorado Street Bridge: real or really ludicrous?

Since it's Halloween, and the witching hour is nearly upon…


The Colorado Street Bridge speaks, or rather initial critical reaction to my novel about her

"A riveting and enjoyable look at how local myths are…


Incredible home movie by the grandfather of Thaddeus Lowe

Lowe conducted military reconnaissance from a balloon for…