After I posted an article about the coincidental ways in which several ostensibly disparate elements came together on the Easter weekend,...

David Fitzgerald While deleting a huge backlog of emails to avoid paying a Google fee on this Easter weekend, I ran across an internet...

“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...

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...

Michael Hartnett Michael Hartnett is the author of six novels, his latest being Blue Gowanus, which I reviewed below. He holds a...

Tampa Bay Chance encounters of related people or things in unlikely circumstances often elicit the cliché, “It’s a small world.” These...

Nov 21, 2020 Dear Sir or Madam: I am utterly dismayed that you people continually send to your customers misinformation about what is a...

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...

Persistence pays off. “Blood on Their Hands” by Bob Brink. (Provided by TouchPoint Press) Hold that thought while I digress into an...

A week ago, I sat down and churned out a letter, stream-of-consciousness fashion, for my friend from Indiana to send to backward...

Costco Lantana, Florida It goes without saying that people are staying home much more during the virus (DV) than before the virus (BV) –...

Bookstore reading A pandemic can do more than send people to their early graves, create cabin fever for those quarantining or just...

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...

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...

John Feffer The issue of racism and police brutality toward Blacks in America is critical and must be  addressed, and my new novel Blood...

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...

Finally, paperback copies of my novel Blood on Their Hands arrived today, in three large cardboard boxes. They look great, and now I can...

George Floyd As the incident of police brutality in Minnesota unfolds on the TV screen, with more videos and evidence produced and murder...

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...

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...