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After I posted an article about the coincidental ways in which several ostensibly disparate elements came together on the Easter weekend,...
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Apr 4, 20213 min read
Uncanny Easter Parade
David Fitzgerald While deleting a huge backlog of emails to avoid paying a Google fee on this Easter weekend, I ran across an internet...
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Mar 20, 20216 min read
Hasta la Costa Rica, Baby!
“These vagabond shoes, they’re longing to stay.” San Jose, Costa Rica That wasn’t a typo. If I keep having the kind of experiences like...
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Jan 16, 20213 min read
Calling All Authors …
Rob Eagar, a book marketing expert and author of several nonfiction books, is the first person I’ve come across in the business of public...
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Jan 1, 20212 min read
It’s a Blue World
Michael Hartnett Michael Hartnett is the author of six novels, his latest being Blue Gowanus, which I reviewed below. He holds a...
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Dec 15, 20203 min read
Chance Encounters of the Literary Kind
Tampa Bay Chance encounters of related people or things in unlikely circumstances often elicit the cliché, “It’s a small world.” These...
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Nov 21, 20203 min read
Letter to My Health Insurance Company: Saturated Fat Is Healthy
Nov 21, 2020 Dear Sir or Madam: I am utterly dismayed that you people continually send to your customers misinformation about what is a...
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Oct 17, 20205 min read
What a Difference a Dictionary Makes
Noah Webster Today is D Day. Excuse me, not that D Day, which was June 6, not October 16. And that year was 1944, when military forces of...
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Oct 8, 20205 min read
Pressing the Press
Persistence pays off. “Blood on Their Hands” by Bob Brink. (Provided by TouchPoint Press) Hold that thought while I digress into an...
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Sep 27, 20206 min read
An Open Letter to Trumpers
A week ago, I sat down and churned out a letter, stream-of-consciousness fashion, for my friend from Indiana to send to backward...
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Sep 5, 20205 min read
Costco, Corona and Chaos
Costco Lantana, Florida It goes without saying that people are staying home much more during the virus (DV) than before the virus (BV) –...
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Aug 13, 20204 min read
Book Fever
Bookstore reading A pandemic can do more than send people to their early graves, create cabin fever for those quarantining or just...
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Jul 27, 20203 min read
A Time of Love, a Time of Hate
Charles Dickens “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the...
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Jul 13, 20204 min read
Inconsistent Fed Covid Policy
Dr. David Brownstein As an author, I am a follower of another author: Dr. David Brownstein, who has an oeuvre of 11 books, seven of them...
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Jun 27, 20204 min read
Trumpers in a Nut Shell
John Feffer The issue of racism and police brutality toward Blacks in America is critical and must be addressed, and my new novel Blood...
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Jun 13, 20203 min read
Trump and Religious Totalitarianism
Scene from The Handmaid’s Tale Repeatedly when I read The Handmaid’s Tale, the global best Adam Johnson In The Handmaid’s Tale, the...
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Jun 11, 20204 min read
What President Can Trump This?
Finally, paperback copies of my novel Blood on Their Hands arrived today, in three large cardboard boxes. They look great, and now I can...
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May 29, 20203 min read
Plot Parallels
George Floyd As the incident of police brutality in Minnesota unfolds on the TV screen, with more videos and evidence produced and murder...
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May 16, 20202 min read
Ninety-nine Cents
Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around, Ninety-eight bottles of beer...
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May 13, 20202 min read
Biden Her Time … Tic Toc
Since I’m an author, one would imagine my blog posts would be about reads, right? So this post is about a read — sort of. It’s about a...
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