A few days ago, I got into a conversation on Facebook with a young woman who lives in Bo, Sierra Leone. I had been in Bo when I was in the country, and I told her I was glad things were better than they were during the terrible war years. She told me that she … Read more
No, I didn’t go back there for the first time since my 1963 trip which is the basis for my memoir African Summer. I doubt that will ever happen, given my stamina and funds. But while I was looking for an article that an online friend of mine wrote about Mexico, I came across an … Read more
You want to write your memoirs? Great! It can be a very satisfying project. One of the first things to decide is how you are going to publish them, as that will shape many details of creation. There are essentially three approaches to publishing your book: very simply, like for family members; self-publishing, as I … Read more
I’m over halfway through the final editing of my third memoir, LSD and Beyond, about taking it as a research subject in 1964. I’m having fun adding a few photographs to the text. In this book, the photos are black and white. If I were an artist I would draw wild multi-color images to describe … Read more
My next book, “LSD and Beyond: How Being a Research Subject Transformed My Life” has moved to a new stage. It’s left my Windows computer, where I write, to my old Mac, where I use a Mac-only formatting program called Vellum. I’ve got the photos already on the Mac and soon will install them. This … Read more