about me

Viene La Tormenta was published in 1989 as a ten-thousand word short story w/two original paintings as illustrations in the international climbing magazine Rock & Ice., issue #35.

Viene La Tormenta is an exploration of perceived value.


If you comment on VLT, thank you. I appreciate the time and effort it takes.

A complete VLT would be illustrated with sixteen photographs and six paintings by the author.

The novel, Viene La Tormenta, is protected by Registration Number TXu 1-733-553 of the United States Copyright Office, effective April 1, 2010. All rights are reserved.

Viene La Tormenta, published as "Comes the Storm", is available as a Kindle book through Amazon, or as a print edition at Xaipros.com

'49. Makes me sixty+. Sort of pleased and amazed I'm still here. An early product of SoCal culture. Chased fun, not profit. You make your choices, accept the trade-offs, right? Self-taught. Worked hard. Carpenter, house painter, artist, husband, parent. Modern world at odds with inner sense of direction. Can the two be reconciled? Working at it.

favourite books

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Wind, Sand, and Stars), Kenneth Grahame (Wind In the Willows), Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo), Ken Kesey (Sometimes a Great Notion), Neal Cassady (The First Third), Jack Kerouac (On the Road), Thomas Wolfe (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), Hunter S. (Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas), Charles G. Finney, (The Circus of Dr. Lao), Jim Thompson (After Dark My Sweet, The Grifters, The Golden Gizmo, The Killer Inside Me, South of Heaven), Andrew Vachss (Born Bad, Shela, Down In the Zero, Choice of Evil), Fred G. Leebron (Out West), Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception), Robert Anton Wilson (The Illuminati Trilogy), James D. Chalker (Midnight At the Well of Souls, Dancers in the Afterglow), James Crumley (The Last Good Kiss), Larry Brown (Big Bad Love), Lafcadio Hearn (Cita: A Memory of Last Island, A Japanese Miscellany), Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics), Garth Stein (The Art of Racing In the Rain), Paramahansa Yogananda (Autobiography of a Yogi),Arthur M. Young (The Reflexive Universe), R. D. Lang (The Politics of Experience), Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse Five, Mother Night), Charles Bukowski (Post Office, Tales of Ordinary Madness) and so on . . .

Don't feel afraid of anything.
Through life just freely roam.
The world belongs to all of us -
So make yourself at home.

Anonymous


Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
For life is but a dream . . .

my websites

http://Xaipros.com