Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween to all! In honor of this
auspicious day, our noble hound has
transformed once again from Golden
Retriever to...Tasmanian Tiger!!!!

empty

Been reading The Empty Mirror
by Jan van de Wetering.

bump

Just read a great Halloween book
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
and James Marshall.

starting a new book...

I'm reading a great old book: The Three Investigators in The Secret of Terror Castle and it's inspiring me to bring back Cronco and The Great Marconi, ghost-detective stars of my previous book The Robotic Age. (I'm pretending there are thrilled fans and tickertape parades and bookstores are gearing up with cardboard displays). For those of you acquainted with Cronco and Marconi, you'll be glad to find them doing well: Cronco has married a refrigerator and Marconi has a grand scheme to rope in the star of another one of my books, Walt Amherst is Awake. It's an All-Star Reunion! Anyway, I have written the first chapter. It will be fun to see what happens.

Nessie

Incidentally, the cover for Island Air
features an appearance by Nessie!
You can see the famed creature on
the right side of the cover. Look close
and marvel and wonder.

Island Air Contents

CONTENTS

Morning, 1992………….

Making Haiku…………..

Soldier Boy……………..

The Wind Creatures……..

The Old Sea Gull………..

Coward’s Corner…………

Poor & Unfortunate………

Dreaming of a Song……….

Goodnight Haiku………….

Another Mystery…………..

The Old Pond…………….

The Shirelles………………

The #12……………………

The Sea of Tranquility………

Evening, 1992……………….

Are you ready?

QUITTING TIME

5 o’clock and the bumblebees are heading

home, so tired they clip the tops of flowers

with their heavy yellow boots.