
Batter patter
Growing up in Texas, I had a mother, who, while driving us kids somewhere during thunderstorms, would sometimes thrill us [...]

My sexting sisterhood
Nerd-girl gets the VIPs. She's their coffee and wake-up call and maybe a bit more. She makes sure the clients [...]

666 to Hell’s kitchen: Get creative!
From: Satan, Post Office Box 666, New Jersey Turnpike (please leave pitchfork shipments with red-uniformed concierge) To: Pet Peeves Department [...]

Ghosts of the lynched
Standing under a monolithic steel slab, one of hundreds suspended from the polished wooden ceiling of a giant multi-level square [...]

Becoming my grandmother
It’s often said that women become their mothers. Ever since my mother died twelve years ago, I’ve noticed how I’ve [...]

Old mob, new rules
Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors… even by children. Because history is [...]

Sarasota’s blues
It's a bad time for Sarasota Spring. She's the 36-year-old private investigator featured in the novel I've been working on [...]

Rebecca and C-Bro
My daughter Rebecca has her first boyfriend and he goes by the name Casey, or Case: "it depends on how [...]

A season for mutants
Many people are asking the same question about the growing number of corona virus variants: Why now? What caused the [...]

Travel à la Dante
The Monarch – The Trans-Atlantic Airliner with Downstairs Cocktail Lounge at no extra charge! All seats fully reclining, with a [...]