About
I have been a
writer/editor for most of my adult life, working at various times for a public library, a multinational corporation, a university, and state government. My wife Linda and I also spent seven years as owners/chefs of Churchill House Inn, a nine-room country inn in central Vermont.
My short stories and short humor have appeared in regional, national and international commercial publications including American Way and Hemispheres, the inflight magazines for American Airlines and United Airlines, The New York Times, Buffalo Spree, Salt Lake City Magazine, and Tampa Tribune Fiction Quarterly as well as such literary magazines as Rosebud and Dandelion.
Linda and I are now living in Lincoln, Vermont, in the Green Mountains where summers are about as long as my attention span. That’s why I write about the Caribbean.
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I loved everything about Richard Daybell's Calypso--its Caribbean vibe, its linguistic rhythms, its gently swaying booze hounds, expats, and pirate wannnabes, all with wobbly teeter-totters where most people keep a conscience and a sense of ethics. Calypso is jammed with what the world needs more of--characters. But most especially, I liked the comeuppance-with-a-wink that Daybell dishes out in every tale. Hilarious! <br />Think P.G. Wodehouse, swimming in jerk sauce... --Paul Brigadier