My publisher didn’t pick up Christina’s Portrait. They had a limited number of slots, and they needed to allocate them for books with a greater potential of sales. That’s fair. My book sales have been flat. I haven’t paid attention to marketing because I’ve been focusing on writing (and my…

I rejoined Weight Watchers (WW) nearly four years ago. What I’ve learned there not only helps me with weight management, but in all aspects of life. Recently, I was introduced to a practice called Three Good Things. You take time out and think about three good things that happened to…

Tomorrow is the 22nd anniversary of 9/11. This means an entire generation has grown up and finished college, and they only know about 9/11 from a history book. I’ll commemorate 9/11 by donating blood. That’s what many people did in the days and even hours after the attack. We wanted…

I create a playlist for every novel. This includes my work-in-progress, Christina’s Portrait. You will find the playlist on Spotify. I listen to a few songs on my playlist before starting a writing session. It gets me into the mood of the scenes I’m working on and helps me focus…

This is a great time of year for a sports lover like me. My two favorite sports, baseball and football, overlap. Little League has its World Series, MLB teams are fighting for the playoffs, and all the football leagues are getting started. …

I wouldn’t say PragerU and the Florida Board of Education are whitewashing history. That assumes they’re starting with actual history to sanitize. At best, you can call it historical fiction. They use historical figures to come up with a made-up story, like what Quentin Tarantino did with Inglorious Basterds and…

I wrote this poem 40 years ago. It reflects what I believe about life and beyond it.

We recently witnessed some ancient senators who had trouble functioning at their jobs. But the cry “Why don’t they just retire already?” doesn’t only apply to politics. There was a time when someone of my age was supposed to start stocking up on fishing equipment and working on my golf…

As a parent and grandparent, I’m concerned about keeping children safe. But the cry “What about the children?” has resulted in many types of horrible behavior, from misconduct by youth sports leagues to genocide. Today, repressive legislation comes in the guise of “protecting our children’s innocence.” What does this mean? …