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Book Review — The Ride
J. Harold Melton’s “The Ride” is a very masculine novel. What do I mean by that? It smells like aftershave and bourbon and axle grease, with maybe an overtone of…
Buying Smarts
If you can’t come by them naturally, think about buying smarts. I’ve mentioned before that I don’t travel well, and this latest trip proves me right. My son and I…
Let Your Freak Flag Fly
The phrase, “Let Your Freak Flag Fly” has been tumbling around my head for a while. It pops in, unbidden, shouting, commanding, drowning out other, more hesitant phrases. I have…
Book Review: Sleeping Between Giants
When I tell you that “Sleeping Between Giants: Life, If You Could Call It That, With a Terrier” by Dave Jaffe is a funny book, you seriously have to believe…
A Chinese Jewish Christmas Story
It seems like a poor marketing idea for a Chinese restaurant staff to piss off a collection of Jews on Erev Christmas. Let me back up. I live in the…
A Love Story (If I Wrote It)
In nearly every book I have ever read, from classical literature to bodice-ripper romance to biography to history, there is a character, almost always female, who transforms from a quiet,…
Book Review — False Horizon
False Horizon is the second book in the Seth Walker series by Joseph Reid. The first is Take Off. Seth Walker is a former Air Marshall with a troubled past. …
Book Review — The Unfaithful Widow Ten Years Later
Barbara Barth follows up her delightful The Unfaithful Widow with her new book The Unfaithful Widow Ten Years Later: My Life with Dogs and Every Day Magic. In this biography,…
Self-medication
My friend called me the other day. For purposes of this blog, I shall call her Jennifer, mainly because most women my age are named “Jennifer” and I know a…
Quiet Burgers
When I go out to dinner with my friends, it is because I want to talk to my friends live and in person. I don’t want to thumbtype awkward messages…
