by Michael Richwine | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Saturday in Bastrop – Cowboy Poetry There aren’t many events left where the main attractions are folding chairs, acoustic guitars, and people who know how to coil a rope properly. So naturally, I drove to Bastrop. It was the first year of the Lone Star Cowboy Poetry...
by Michael Richwine | Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
In November 2025, before either novel was fully underway, I wrote this scene based on a story told to me years earlier. The names Mary Ellen and Chester (Chet) Rawlins were already forming, though I did not yet understand how large their lives on the page would...
by Michael Richwine | Jan 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Time as a Thing If time were a thing—would it be red, blue, green, yellow, black, or clear? Solid, hollow, thin, short, or tall? Could you see through it— see the back of it, look at it from the side, see it from the top, from the bottom? Would it be straight? Twisty?...
by Michael Richwine | Dec 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
— the em dash I’ve always read sentences aloud in my head. Even when I’m skimming. Especially then. Rhythm gives things away long before meaning does. Some sentences want to stop. Others want to turn. I’ve learned to trust the turn. That’s probably why I like writing...
by Michael Richwine | Nov 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
+ Mike Richwine Word count -1425 Interview with a Witch Belize Arrival What did I get myself into? I’m standing beside a river in the middle of a Mayan jungle at eleven o’clock at night, in a hot rainstorm — the kind that dries on your face but soaks your clothes....
by Michael Richwine | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Personal wealth By mike Richwine 10/20/2025 As someone who has spent a lifetime in real estate, I’m continually amazed by the sheer wealth evident in the U.S. vacation home market. Who owns these homes, and where does their wealth come from? First as a banker,...
