Petula Clark’s 1964 hit song Downtown had the wrong idea. Sure, “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go, downtown.” But if you prefer peace and quiet for company (instead of traffic and noise), you can always go, to the library. At 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, for example, joining […]
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 Library. This is a belated, brief account of my experience last Thursday at said library. Ambling up to the entrance, my attention was arrested by a big sign announcing my book […]
Paul Ryan with Ayn Rand U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives, presides over a Republican majority that fights to make the rich richer, at the expense of the middle and lower classes. It opposes higher taxes on the wealthy as a way of reducing the nation’s […]
Check out this story about a massive storm that’s supposed to be developing in the North Atlantic, which is supposed to raise the temperature at the North Pole possibly above the freezing level of 32 degrees. The normal temperature for this time of year is 40 degrees below zero. It’s part of the same weather system […]
FREE!!! FREEBIE!!! A FREE BOOK!!! Was that loud enough? Do I have your attention? Okay, here’s the deal: Tomorrow, Monday, January 4 of this blessed new year, my book will be available at no charge – in other words, free (did I mentioned that?). I’m talking about the Amazon Kindle edition, which all of you […]
Ray Charles Oh, it’s signing time again, you’re gonna join me … With apologies to Ray Charles, it’s book signing time again for yours truly, this time in Delray Beach. This time? It’ll be my second time in four days at the Delray Public Library, where I again will tout my novel MURDER IN PALM […]
Donald Trump 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. While you are, of course, entirely free to vote for anyone you like, I cannot sit idly by when I think that step by you and millions of […]
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 ill-advised. What I didn’t mention was that another Republican candidate is even worse: Ted Cruz. Trump has at least said a few things that made sense, and he appears […]
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 at the Lake Park Public Library at 11 a.m. I hope my car starts. The high is supposed to 63 degrees. Do car batteries turn over when it’s […]
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 is unknown. It has become common to use they as a singular pronoun. Yet this grates on the ears of those of us inured to the idea that they […]