The Beginning of a Book Launch A Common Evil – A Bailey Crane Mystery (Book 6) Authored by Billy Ray Chitwood The Beginning of a book launch? First, an admission, I’ve never been very good at my own book launches. With this book, I would really like to get it as right as I possibly […]
Tag: Mexico
A Friend On A Cot
There is this compelling need within me to record and share some of the emotions and thoughts during a visit to a small medical clinic and a friend on a cot… Ruben has diabetes. While hiking on Sonora’s Pinacate volcanic range (where the astronauts trained for the ‘Moon Landing’) he fell on some rocks […]
Where Do We Belong?
The title represents an intriguing question. Obviously it is a question posed by an incurable romantic, a question that can occupy many minutes and hours of the day. The context in which the question is posed has to do with those of us who live our lives not so much by genetic and […]
“A Soul Defiled – A Bailey Crane Mystery” (Book 5) – EXCERPT
“A Soul Defiled – A Bailey Crane Mystery” is the fifth and final book in the ‘Bailey Crane Mystery Series’ – a relatively short book written on the Sea of Cortez. As I lazily and leisurely lolled on my condo deck watching the sailboats, jet skis, yachts, and all the diversions upon the sea, I […]
“Murder In Pueblo Del Mar – A Bailey Crane Mystery” (Book 4) – Excerpt
“Murder In Pueblo Del Mar – A Bailey Crane Mystery” (Book 4) is fiction inspired by a brutal murder some years ago of an Arizona mother and wife while on a family holiday in Rocky Point, Mexico. This story is important to me on two levels: the dynamic of the homicide itself with its salacious ingredients […]
The Restless Spirit
Under a pale blue morning sky a long plume of white misty cloud softly touches the Sea of Cortez, and I ponder the spirit of the restless. In fact, it is my own restless spirit that dictates this post, given energy by the ghosts from an Appalachian youth of mobility and uncertainty, by my own […]
Sunday On The Sea Of Cortez
Sunday on the Sea of Cortez The day is starting with patches of blue in a cloudy sky. Soon the clouds will be gone and a full canopy of soft blue will replace them. There will be ski jets on the deep green sea along with banana boats, motor boats, multi-colored sails. Hawkers of serapes, […]
The Final Curtain 