Conference Report: National Nerves

Last week I went to the Romance Writers of America’s national conference in Washington, D.C.  Ordinarily, I only attend when the event is in New York City since getting there from New Jersey requires no white-knuckled, gut-twisting flight on an airplane (one of those...

Brodie update

Here’s my adorable niece Jessica, giving Brodie his favorite thing: a belly rub.  Turns out the Devil Dog is amazingly good with children.  Who’d a thunk? Brodie is finally settling in.  He’s a rub junkie and will melt into the floor with a moan of...

You know you’ve arrived when…

…you find your book being quoted in someone else’s book. I was delighted to discover that Michael Aaron Rockland devotes a page and a half to my first novel A Bridge to Love in his book about the George Washington Bridge.  Mr. Rockland’s book The...

Out of the mouths of babes…

My Darling Daughter brought home a literary magazine from Kenyon College called Hika, An Undergraduate Journal of Arts and Letters.  Following is my favorite poem from the journal.  The poet speaks of  a truly universal truth. Procrastination Takes on Newton’s...

Going back, going back…

I just returned from my mrmph-th (that’s the sound of me muffling the number of years since my graduation) college reunion.  It struck me that no one would truly believe what a major, insane production my college makes of reunions if I didn’t show you some...