In this chronicle about life on the hippie trail, W. M. Raebeck provides a funky flashback to what now seems an easier era. Through her marginal feats and misadventures, you'll always be siding with the bad guy. Questionable conduct here takes a back seat to innocence, naiveté, rites of passage, and even desperation. The author's exploits reveal, too, that perennial determination of the young-every generation's instinct to define itself and its time. In...

In this savory collection of true stories, you'll find yourself in Rome, Tribeca, Baja, Hollywood, jail, Camelot, Kansas, and the hospital. You'll do star-gazing, you'll follow some dreams and watch others crumble. The subject matter ranges from fabulous high heels to movie auditions to lousy tenants to the guy at the airport, twenty tales of love and risk, spirits, coincidence, dreams, and some tough truths we'd rather run from. You'll be curled...

Poetry for the summer day, poetry for the dark night. Poems that cut a walkable trail through the forest of life. Always with a nudge and a wink, "It'll be okay." This collection reflects a lifetime of nature, love, travel, death, joy, art, family, and the eternal questions. A potion of emotion to soothe and move you.