Here I am at the Glacial Kettle outside Columbus, Ohio.
WHO I AM:
An award-winning Memoirist, Arts and Culture Columnist, Writing Workshop Leader, and Manuscript Editor
I’m also an ex-lawyer, a sober alcoholic of 38 years, a Benedictine Oblate, and a lover of books, film, and art. You can learn here about my MANUSCRIPT EDITING and WRITING COACH services. You’ll also find my books, columns, workshops, and media events. As well you’ll find blog archives dating from 2010, with categories that include “Existential Crises,” “Divine Intoxication,” and “The Tragicomedy of Our Daily Cross.”
As of April, 2025, I moved my blog to SUBSTACK at DESIRE LINES: HEATHER KING.
WHAT I DO:
Foster “ecstatic truth.” Promote the vocation of the artist. Celebrate other writers, painters, dancers, musicians, and thinkers, often unsung.
To than end, check out my Personal Communion of Saints, Movies Galore Page, and some of my Favorite Memoirs.
WHERE I LIVE
From 2016-2021, in a Craftsman bungalow apartment in Pasadena, CA.
At which point, during COVID, I moved to Tucson, Arizona! My new place is great, too, the style and sensibility being much the same.
WHERE I COME FROM
I had good beginnings, thanks to Allen K. King and Janet M. King of North Hampton, New Hampshire.
Then Durham, New Hampshire (UNH), Boston (Suffolk Law), the North Shore of Boston (Salem and Newburyport), and starting in 1990, for 30 years in LA, baby: the city the rest of the country loves to hate. That I still get to write of its secrets, paradoxes, wonders, weirdness and wackiness every week is a supreme joy.
WHERE I’M GOING
GIOTTO