George Saunders In middle and high school literature classes, I remember grousing about having to look for the “hidden meanings” in short...

Lubben Brothers The evening air under clear skies had just enough of a nip to be bracing, and the mix of folk, light rock and hints of...

Good thing I took a book with me to Nicaragua, because I didn’t take my email password. The book is The Grass Is Singing, by the late...

A letter on the editorial page of the Palm Beach Post at the end of August so incensed me that I determined to write a newsletter about...

A novel idea occurred to me the other day. Excuse me, I don’t mean I got an idea for writing another novel, not just after finishing the...

On the heels of the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize to the teenager who videotaped the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis,...

On my trip in March to Costa Rica for dental implants, I found a book, E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View, left in a drawer where I E.M....

If you’re a procrastinator like me, you often miss out on great opportunities. So you may have delayed entering a contest to win 45+...

Hello y’all out there in reader land. ‘Fraid I’ve been remiss in letting you know about this great opportunity to win so many free...

Rob Eagar An elderly woman who lives in my condo complex told me her mother had advised never to talk about religion or politics, a...

Hello again, y’all. I seem to be hopping around on this newsletter like the Easter bunny, who always gets energized this time of year....

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...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren The bumper of my 2010 Mazda is a stream of stickers dedicated to two people who couldn’t be more different: Donald...

Some 30 years ago, I bought a Hon office chair from Costco, one with a gray, cloth fabric that I could sit on after a sweaty workout...

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...

December 23, 2020 Dear Friends and Relatives, These days, I am reminded of a favorite expression by my late brother-in-law: “We’re havin’...

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