James D. Best

Deluge is a disaster story. A real potential disaster is bearing down on the East Coast, and people would be wise to take every preca...

My wife and I are about to return to Omaha from San Diego. Darn, where did the time go? I’m going to miss friends and family, surfing...

I've written ten books and contributed to another five. Millions of words, all typed with two fingers. I would have learned to touch typ...

Winter in Pacific Beach Winter in Nebraska We spend the winters in San Diego. When we called Arizona home, San Diego served as our ...

Rod Pennington writes that "Sunday's Oscars ceremony takes place during one of the gloomiest times for the film industry in rec...

The first eight days of 2017 have already slipped away. I've been distracted by family and fun. It seems the only way to slow down ti...

                    "And by the way, you know, when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea - have a P...

Six tips on writing from Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to fin...

I grew up in the South Bay. This post was prompted when I watched the above video of my old stomping grounds. The South Bay was the ni...

Okay, this is what I do while waiting for other people to put the finishing touches on Jenny's Revenge . The new Steve Dancy is coming ...

I just returned from a week of skiing at Heavenly overlooking Lake Tahoe. Judging by the price of lift tickets, there’s gold on them th...

Death Valley is the hottest place on earth. The valley has amiable place names like Dead Man’s Pass, Funeral Mountain, Coffin Canyon, H...

We celebrated the New Year with our kids and six grandchildren. It was a blast … and tiring.  Great start of a new year, but this morning, ...

We're off to San Diego to escape winter in Nebraska. If the body is willing, I also hope to get in a little surfing. Actually, we d...

I’ve returned home after an extended vacation in Pacific Beach, California. I made good progress on Jenny’s Revenge , but I keep forget...

Yours Truly on an overhead wave.(Who're ya gonna believe, me or yer lyin' eyes.) Writing and surfing and sun and good food and ...

My granddaughter catching her first wave Tonight, I head west. At least until I hit the Pacific Ocean. My plan is two weeks of surf, ...

As a Western writer, I keep an eye on Hollywood Westerns. Last night I saw A Million Ways to Die in the West . I wish I could say the movi...

The Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival is in April. For those of you without a  calendar , that's coming up. In the 2011 Festival, Bob Boze ...

The March issue of Vanity Fair has a great article on the iconic movie poster for Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer , titled “One Summer, F...