Eighty Smiles for DOC!

The Doc Holliday Memorial Fund at Smile Train just went over the $20,000 mark. That’s enough to repair clefts for 80 children. Catamaran Literary Review, with the first chapter of Epitaph, is on its way to Bob Price, Heather Elia, Paul and Emma Simpson, Ann...

Days of Awe

Jewish life is full of traditions, and this will be one of mine. A year has gone by since the passing of my brother Richard’s fiancee, Jeanne Valentino. Rich wants me to re-post this blog and we both ask you to read it again.

Update: How Shallow Am I?

Reader Sherri Byrand got in touch to ask how I’m doing with the diet and exercise since posting  How Shallow Am I? back in March. Well, folks, this afternoon I am wearing jeans I bought five years ago, and my thanks for this go to Paula Roberts. Her Facebook...

Trust me. Just read this book.

If there were any justice in the universe, Karen Joy Fowler would be as rich and famous as people who write tedious pornography or tell stories about boy wizards. Her sales figures do not reach the bazillion mark, but you may know her from The Jane Austen Book Club,...