Rough Edges

Writing Despite hitting a little slump over the past week, March was a good writing month. My second-best ever, in fact. Not only did I re...

Today is my mother's 91st birthday. We had a small, low-key get-together at the nursing home where she lives now. She's had lots o...

. . . and I'm no exception. We've lived here for almost 29 years, and in all that time I've never seen the road in front of our...

I've been a Bob Newhart fan for more years than I like to think about. I remember watching him doing some of his routines on TV in the e...

Proving once more that I'm out of step with popular culture, we watched this movie tonight -- which won the Academy Award for Best Pictu...

I’m not that familiar with Jeffery Deaver’s work. Several years ago I read THE BONE COLLECTOR, the first book in the Lincoln Rhyme series, ...

There aren't very many pictures of me posted on-line, but you can see a couple of recent ones over on Livia's blog .

We’re big on romantic comedies around here. YOU, ME, AND DUPREE is a decent example of the genre. Owen Wilson plays a slacker who is force...

There are a lot of popular authors I’ve never gotten around to reading, and until now Walter Mosley was one of them. But I just read DEVIL ...

I’m a big fan of THE UNIT, the TV series developed by David Mamet from Eric L. Haney’s memoir, INSIDE DELTA FORCE. (I’ll have some comments ...