Just finished watching “On Any Sunday: the Next Chapter” on YouTube. The original “On Any Sunday” came out in 1974. It was a movie about the exploding motorcycle craze that was storming through the U.S. Bruce Brown, who earlier had come out with “Endless Summer,” made the movie. His surfing blockbuster about chasing the perfect […]
Well, our move is finally completed. Now we’ll be unpacking boxes for the next six months and asking “Where is the _____?” You fill in the blank. It’s been a bit of an hellacious experience softened by family and friends. I won’t belabor you with tales of medical insurance issues exacerbated by a true medical […]
As we approach the astronomical beginning of summer (summer solstice), I’d like to offer a few recommendations for the season’s reading. That is, if you’ve read all my books and need something to tide you over until “Death in the Congo” comes out. My first recommendation is a rather unusual book, titled “A Gentleman in […]
Being an author, my daily routine has not changed much with this virus outbreak. Writing is a solitary profession and so I can keep “going to work” each day and books keep selling. I’m one of the lucky ones and I realize that. It’s only when I do go out or turn on the news, […]
I’ve been watching a series on quantum mechanics recently (it’s a form of avoidance). My writing has been going a bit slow lately, interrupted by a serious cold that left me flattened for about five days. In watching the series, one of the more interesting things I discovered, among the many bizarre things about the […]
It’s been quite a year. I can say without reservation that our 2018 Christmas was much less stressful than 2017. Last year I was in the final stages of my cancer treatment which consisted of daily radiation and weekly chemo infusions. Thankfully that is all behind me now. As I said once before, you don’t […]
News and updates If you’re on my reader update list you already know this, but last fall I discovered my body was invaded by cancer. There was a tumor at the base of my tongue and cancer cells had leaked into my lymph glands (that’s how I discovered something was wrong—they swelled up). Initially I […]
Some unpleasant news arrives I hesitate to write this because I know some of you have (or have had) much worse stories, about yourselves or a loved one, but I promised myself to be honest and transparent to you both as friends and as readers of my novels. Last week I was diagnosed with squamous […]
