Republican leadership Throughout my long adult life, I have never considered myself a political ideologue. Rather, I like to think of...

Yippee ki-yah ki-yah ki-yo! My new novel is done. Finito. Fini. Das Ende. The End. All that remains is the editing and choosing a final...

Hooray for independent bookstores like Book Cellar! It opened in early October in the perfect location, an abandoned space at the corner...

Governor Rick Scott Last week, the Palm Beach Post carried two stories on the same day. The headlines were: 1) “Scott seeks tax cuts...

Tampa Bay In 1973, only months after my first wife and I moved from Milwaukee to Tampa, we drove across Tampa Bay one Sunday afternoon to...

Humana, my health insurer, called the other day with a recorded message urging me to get a flu shot. It ran through a little survey: Did...

The Grammar Grouch has been so busy lately venting his spleen on our sorry excuse for a president and a GOP Congress afraid to counter...

Kathleen Parker Riffling through a haphazard array of papers left unattended on my desk for longer than I care to admit, I didn’t find...

Aside from the opportunity to hawk my books that the outdoor market at Manalapan has afforded me, it has been it has been a thoroughly...

About eight years ago, my then-doctor did a routine blood test to determine my numbers for cholesterol, triglycerides, homocysteine, and...

Lake Worth, Florida Attention book lovers and authors! A spiffy new bookstore is set to open in Lake Worth. It’s called Book Cellar, and...

Costco store, Lantana, Florida When you write a novel based on a significant crime that happened in your area, it leads to encounters and...

Who woulda thunk that a little thing like a communications dilemma wrought by Hurricane Irma could give rise to a discourse on...

E.J. Dionne Jr. Perhaps the most insightful take on the character of Donald Trump that I’ve read was delivered by E.J. Dionne Jr.,...

Before my novel Murder in Palm Beach: The Homicide That Never Died was published, the outside editor for the publisher evaluated my work...

The You Docs The following is a blog post that I published a year ago. It is every bit as relevant today as it was then. The other day, I...

Syndicated columnist Mona Charen, a hard-core conservative, is to be congratulated for condemning Republicans for their reticence in...

Kai Ryssdal Kai Ryssdal, host of Marketplace on National Public Radio, was interviewing James Patterson Monday evening when I tuned in,...

It would seem that the “Christian” evangelical leaders of this country are working hard to dissuade anyone of conscience from joining...

President Trump It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 comedy film with a title that describes the United States today – except that...