Driving down the road, listening to NPR, I heard a newscast that reminded me of the conundrum over which pronoun to use when the gender...

Lake Park Library OMG, I have a book signing tomorrow – that’s Saturday, Jan. 23 – and haven’t even let anyone know about it. Yikes! It’s...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz Last week, I penned an open letter to a friend, delineating why his intention to vote for Donald Trump was abysmally...

An open letter to a Midwestern friend: Dear Dan, I received your letter, in which you said you were planning to vote for Donald Trump....

An illustrious new literary blog has just emerged: Book Club Babble. It’s run by six gals who know how to write and know good writing....

Oh, it’s signing time again, you’re gonna join me … Ray Charles With apologies to Ray Charles, it’s book signing time again for yours...

FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of...

Check out this story about a massive storm that’s supposed to be developing in the North Atlantic, which is supposed to raise the...

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives, presides over a Republican majority that...

Attention authors! If you want the red carpet treatment for you and your book, you can’t do better than the North Palm Beach Public...

Petula Clark’s 1964 hit song Downtown had the wrong idea. Sure, “When you’re alone and life is At 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, for example,...

Mona Charen I’m about as big a fan of syndicated columnist Mona Charen as I am of Donald Trump – which is to say, not so much. However,...

Plans by the city of West Palm Beach to buy the venerable Sunset Cocktail Lounge and convert it into the centerpiece of a “jazz...

Three words are found in The Donald’s last name: Trump, rump and ump. All spell “ass.” If Donald Trump were umping battles in the...

Michael Gerson When conservative pundits take issue with Republican politicians and their followers on whether Muslims in the United...

Yogi Berra Judged by today’s linguistic milieu, Yogi Berra’s verbal foibles were not all that uncommon. The words and phrases we hear and...

Dr. David Brownstein The medical establishment’s propaganda about the safety and benefits of vaccinations is relentless. And it’s...

For the first second time in probably 37 years, I stepped into the Riviera Beach Library on Thursday evening – and remembered it like it...

A jazz musician I know used to introduce guests playing with his combo by saying, “I’ve known a lot of piano players (or drummers, or...

The Palm Beach Post’s special section on healthful eating for seniors in Thursday’s paper got it partly right, but other morsels of...