: About Me

I am a writer whose books are inspired by my travels. I trekked through the rainforests of Costa Rica to write The Cloud Forest, prowled the back streets of Venice to cook up The Book of Unholy Mischief, and explored India by car and elephant to conjure The Devil's Wind. I call southern California homefor the moment.

My passion is ...

international travel and writing novels

I know too much about ...

laundry

My parents always told me ...

where there's a will there's a way

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

my childen's faces at about 3 yrs old

Why I write ...

I can't not write

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm reading all the Pulitzer winners, watching the Daily show and watching my weight

My first job ...

duh, writing

My best moment ...

now

My inspiration ...

people, life, pretty much every cotton pickin' thing that goes down

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Reflections: Atheism

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In Defense of Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is pissed off. His new bookgod is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything is a scathing indictment of all religions. Nobody gets a pass here; even Mother Theresa and the Dalai Lama take their lumps. Hitchens is unquestionably abrasive and combative, but he backs up every one of his opinions with concrete, real-life examples drawn from his extensive experience as a foreign correspondent, so it's difficult to take issue with anything other than his caustic personality. I've heard people say, "Though I agree with Hitchens' position on...

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