Summer – Read, Relax, Travel, Write

Summer’s Coming It’s still happening. Memorial Day. Then the middle of June. Then the first day of summer. And I want to  travel. Relax. Do lots of stream of consciousness writing. A bit weird considering I’ve been retired from official careers of...

Who’s Got Your Back?

I just spent a week in California visiting with my twin sister. If you read my memoir Thinking of Miller Place, you know her as Finn. It’s been quite a few years, well decades actually, since we realized on a really deep level that we were and always will be...

Summertime and the livin’ is easy

Summertime and the livin’ is easy. It’s true! It’s true! It was true during my childhood and it‘s still true today. The location may be different but my feelings about summer are unchanged. The release of the update of Thinking of Miller Place: A Memoir of Summer...

The All-Zona Book Fest- Nov. 23

The HOLIDAY frenzy is building! Bring your shopping list to the All-Zona Book Fest to take care of the book lovers on your list. For lovers of memoir, twins, and comforting memories of childhood–Thinking of Miller Place: A Memoir of Summer Comfort will be perfect....

A Place as a Setting—and a Character-Normandy

Have you ever walked into a place—even as ordinary as a post office, and there is a distinct atmosphere or mood? It’s true that many places have a history, and that certainly influences the mood. But some are almost as if the place still harbors the spirit of its...