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 [...]
When you become her
I usually avoid mirrors. But one caught me unawares the other day. To my surprise, the person in I saw [...]
Memories of a kingpin
Sheldon Adelson, a one-time tour operator out of Boston, who parlayed an annual electronics and computer convention into a casino [...]
Someone call the emperor
American football these days is much about brain health. If you happened to be an alien examining our barking species [...]
Summer of love
Since the start of the pandemic, an Italian phrase has been on my mind: abbiamo soltanto gli uni e gli [...]
Many too few (a provocation)
Let's for the sake of all that's provocative and profane toss a bucket of chilled blood on enlightened thinking. Let's [...]