The Crow's Nest

The protagonist for my SAN JUAN ISLANDS MYSTERY SERIES is a twenty-something recent college graduate making her way and finding herself among the blue-green waters of that Pacific Northwest archipelago. The...

I’ve killed dozens of people in the course of my writing career. From intrepid old soldiers to corrupted politicians, it seems no-one, regardless of how loved and/or admired, is...

The soon-to-come third installment of my SAN JUAN ISLANDS MYSTERY SERIES is progressing nicely. Hoping to have it off to the publisher for their final review/approval within a few weeks...

Botox has been around for some time – that botulinum toxin that is both expensive and requires multiple injections via a needle, is now becoming the “in” thing to try...

Indeed… No Leaders, Please invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don’t swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of the clutches of...

Weird. That is perhaps the best word to describe the seemingly apocalyptic fit the Mainstream Media and Establishment politicians are now engaged in following President Donald Trump’s concerns over...

Manchester by the Sea, Director Kenneth Lonergan’s quiet and unassuming little gem of an Irish-American fishing town film has already made history by earning the very first Oscar nominations for a...

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Carlin was among those few comedians who in a single act, would make me cheer, and get p*ssed off at the same time. Sometimes brilliant, often abrasive, with a...

What once was a sly-smile look at the often self-inflicted absurdities of race relations in America has sadly (though likely inevitably) regressed into yet more blithering and divisive identity...

I don’t know Robert Dugoni beyond his status as a very successful author of mystery thrillers, a genre much of my own work focuses on. This week, one of...

I first learned of Bukowski via the Showtime series, Californication when the main character, Hank Moody, would sometimes reference the hard-living, California-based poet/author. I later learned Moody was based...

I have, as I often do with such things, waited to comment on this topic. I find it better to allow the information to more fully disseminate, witness public...

Another year is upon us. Seems the older I get, the more thankful I am for having the simple privilege of making plans. You see, I’m still here. Others...

2016 took a lot of significant names in entertainment, politics and culture from us, but, thank goodness, Willie Nelson remains very much alive. I can recall watching this touching...

I’m not one to shed an easy tear, but boy, this now viral video was one of the most beautiful and touching Christmas morning moments I’ve ever had the...

Yesterday marked the 73rd birthday of a man many once thought would never live to see forty. Keith/Keef Richards is still breathing, which means he’s still rocking. And doing...

John Daly’s son, “Little John” is just 13 years old, but in last week’s PNC Father-Son tournament, (one of my favorite silly-season tourneys to watch) this young man showed...

Call it a pittance, a parting symbolic gesture for an administration with eight years full of such things, or just another chance to smile, nod, and bite his lower...

75 years ago today, America was under attack, and subsequently, on the brink of yet another world war. Few who survived Pearl Harbor are still with us today, and...

With the second installment of the San Juan Islands Mystery Series, DARK WATERS out of the proverbial gate and preparing for the publisher’s initial round of promotions, I decided to take...

For the past week or so, the Little General and I have sat down nearly every evening to watch an episode or two of Netflix’s just-released series, The Crown. Let...

A playful rendition of the Steve Earle classic – an American song embraced fully by the Irish and played a million times over in Irish pubs across the world…...

My latest novel, DARK WATERS is now available for purchase from Amazon. Enjoy – and don’t forget, it would make a great gift! 🙂 Also, please remember to leave a review...

D.W. Ulsterman Newsletter November, 2016 Hello again! After a rather remarkable 2016, another holiday season is upon us. This week we have Thanksgiving, and then in just a few...

A few years back, though by then very much a rock n roll gentleman of wealth and taste, Rolling Stones guitarist and legendary hell-raiser Keith Richards showed there was...

You can pre-order the e-book version of Dark Waters:  HERE “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none...

Leonard Cohen was a poet who happened to perform his words via song, a sort of suit-and-tie version of Bob Dylan. Cohen’s work is dark, yearning, contradictory prose that...

I watched, bemused, as the pre-Election Night pollsters and pundits lined up to declare Hillary Clinton the winner before the first votes had actually been counted. There was something...

God bless those who have managed to keep some of us around, yeah? To this day, even after all these years, I sometimes wake up to the sound of...

What a fascinating, confounding, and at times, oddly entertaining election cycle this has been. Hillary Clinton’s ascent to being the 2016 Democrat nominee was no surprise, of course, though...

SPOILER FREE: Nicholas Sparks is something of a guilty pleasure. Yes, his stories are formulaic, with his oft-repeated method of parallel plots culminating in predictably syrupy-sweet conclusions, but, gosh...

Great news! Dark Waters (the sequel to, The Writer) has been give the green light from the publisher! Working out the details now, but hoping to have a pre-order...

Just a little over a month before he passed, Arnold Palmer made an appearance at the Royal Golf Club in Minnesota, which his course design company is working in conjunction with...

My long-running RACE WARS series continues to sell well. I have mixed feelings about that, and when I see what is now happening in a beautiful place like Charlotte, North Carolina,...

I saw this number performed by the Stones live back in the late 90’s during their fantastic Bridges to Babylon tour. It is a song that, if released by...

So I’m brushing my teeth this morning, and what do I hear coming from the TV in the bedroom but that long-ago song by Tom Petty, Learning to Fly....

THOSE EYES. Ben Hogan was a man of smallish stature, but his sheer grit and steely-eyed demeanor intimidated nearly everyone around him. Here is “The Hawk” in the autumn...

We have risen. But those lost must never be forgotten, so we must never forget. Few do it better than Mr. Springsteen… There’s a blood red circle On the...

I never much cared for Star Wars. You see, from a very young age, it was always Star Trek re-runs for me. And now Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi masterpiece is...