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Pronoun Predicament
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...
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Jan 22, 20162 min read
Book Signing
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...
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Jan 18, 20164 min read
Cruel Cruz
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...
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Jan 15, 20166 min read
Trumpmania
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....
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Jan 12, 20161 min read
Writing Is Half the Babble
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....
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Jan 8, 20162 min read
Book Deal of the Day
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...
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Jan 3, 20161 min read
BOOK GIVE-AWAY
FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of...
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Dec 29, 20151 min read
Enormous Temperature Increase
Check out this story about a massive storm that’s supposed to be developing in the North Atlantic, which is supposed to raise the...
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Dec 26, 20151 min read
The Odd Yet Compatible Couple, Ryan and Rand
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives, presides over a Republican majority that...
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Dec 21, 20151 min read
Signing Signs
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...
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Dec 16, 20151 min read
You Can Always Go to the Library
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,...
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Dec 13, 20153 min read
Sober reflection on Islamic terrorism
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,...
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Dec 7, 20152 min read
Jazz Parts Clouds at Sunset Cocktail Lounge
Plans by the city of West Palm Beach to buy the venerable Sunset Cocktail Lounge and convert it into the centerpiece of a “jazz...
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Dec 4, 20152 min read
Don’t Mess With Matthews, Donald
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...
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Nov 29, 20153 min read
Conservative Pundits, Candidates on Different Refugee Page
Michael Gerson When conservative pundits take issue with Republican politicians and their followers on whether Muslims in the United...
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Nov 17, 20152 min read
Word waste
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...
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Nov 13, 20155 min read
What you don’t know about vaccinations
Dr. David Brownstein The medical establishment’s propaganda about the safety and benefits of vaccinations is relentless. And it’s...
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Nov 6, 20152 min read
Body and Soul
For the first second time in probably 37 years, I stepped into the Riviera Beach Library on Thursday evening – and remembered it like it...
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Nov 2, 20152 min read
Three-Ring Signing
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...
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Oct 31, 20154 min read
A Big Fat Fallacy
The Palm Beach Post’s special section on healthful eating for seniors in Thursday’s paper got it partly right, but other morsels of...
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