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Rather Accessible
Me (left); Dan Rather, holding my book As if the Palm Beaches weren’t home to enough celebs, including authors in various genres, the...
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Jun 29, 20182 min read
Serpico Redux
Remember Serpico? The 1973 hit movie by director Sidney Lumet, starring Al Pacino. You don’t? It was before your time? Hey, it was only...
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Jun 19, 20181 min read
FREE BOOK, BABY!
Here in southeast Florida, it’s hot, folks. Now, I’m a little weird: I love it. No AC during the day, 79 degrees at night, with a...
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Jun 18, 20181 min read
Free Books!
If you still haven’t signed up for this contest, it’s not to late. The contest runs through Wednesday, June 20. It costs nothing to...
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Jun 17, 20183 min read
The Biggest Grammar Goof
Fred Barbash At the risk of sounding obsessive, I must once again bring up an egregious grammatical error that is popping up with ever...
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Jun 12, 20181 min read
Book Giveaway Contest
Hello, young book lovers, whoever you are … Uh, oh, you may be too young to be familiar with that augmented lyric from The King and I,...
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Jun 9, 20182 min read
Exploitation
President Trump/GOP congressional leaders I for the life of me can think of only two things that have benefited our economy under Trump:...
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Jun 8, 20184 min read
Witness for the Prosecution
For an author, acquiring book reviews on Amazon is a difficult task, at best. Amazon imposes strict restrictions on the posting of...
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Jun 2, 20183 min read
Publix and Politics
Letters to the Editor of the Palm Beach Post reveal that, to some patrons, shopping at Publix no longer is a pleasure, but a pain. The...
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May 28, 20182 min read
Truth and Fiction
The reality of the chaos in the current White House becomes wearisome after a while, and an escape into fiction is like a breath of fresh...
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May 20, 20183 min read
A Confluence of Books
More and more, people are becoming concerned about what is happening in our federal government. On “I was an accountant, and I’m not a...
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May 9, 20184 min read
Hatred and Revenge
President Trump Five detrimental, even dangerous, ramifications of President Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with Iran...
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May 7, 20183 min read
Just Between You and Me …
The English language, in the United States at least, is in free fall. Everywhere – in newspapers, periodicals, online stock market...
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May 5, 20181 min read
And We Think We Got It Bad …
I’ve never been a big fan of historical fiction, but this post-Civil War tale sounds like a worthy read. KITCHEN CANARY is the debut...
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May 3, 20185 min read
Georgia on my Mind
When I was a newspaper journalist, my editor once assigned me to do a feature story on some fitness fanatic who formed a business of...
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Apr 10, 20184 min read
The Rotting Fish
Sherman Adams Sherman Adams. Scott Pruitt A lot has happened in the 60 years since then. Today, we have a presidential administration...
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Mar 28, 20183 min read
Springtime for Handiworks
Yippee ki yay! Spring has sprung in West Palm Beach. Warm-blooded creatures such as your faithful scribe have been watching the...
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Mar 25, 20182 min read
Riding High
Remember the teeter-totter in the school playground? Do they still have those? I mean, it’s been at least 20 or 30 years since I left...
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Mar 18, 20184 min read
The Brownstein Factor
David Brownstein, M.D. For years, my favorite doctor has been a man who lives a long way from my Florida home, though he’s located not so...
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Mar 10, 20182 min read
The Plot Thickens
David Baldacci As the author of two mystery/suspense novels (one awaiting responses from an assortment of publishers I’ve submitted to),...
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