Lucy pushed through the tall steel door into a room filled with warmth, light and music, all three embracing her in comfort. To the left were a few scattered tables and chairs facing the back wall and, she saw now, what appeared to be a bandstand but looked more like a very large sandbox. To […]
Most Americans have a pretty short sense of history, yet it’s our most valuable intellectual tool for understanding perspective—and perspective is everything. The words of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill have always, and will always, ring true: “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
This is becoming something. We’ll have to see just what as it progresses. As you can see, I haven’t even zeroed in on a title. But Lucinda sounds to me like an Allman Brothers song. If you need to catch up, Part 1 is here and Part 2 is there. ** It wasn’t long until […]
It’s the afternoon of March 11, 1971, in Costa Mesa, California. I’ve just called our local record shop to hear the long-awaited news that Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s new album, “Déjà Vu,” has arrived. Now I’m blasting down the streets of Southern California on my Honda 350, heading there. I rush in, hoping I’m […]
Part 2 Recap: in Part 1 of my new novel-in-progress, “NoMoRobocalls,” Lucinda takes on the robocall problem with a Heckler & Koch automatic weapon. Not her best decision. Uninterested in basking in celebrity, she splits Boston and drives to her parents’ home in northern New Hampshire to ponder the point of life, the universe, and […]
Let’s begin by getting something straight: Time is a continuum, irrespective of our human desire to categorize it into arbitrary chunks. In the cosmos, there is nothing significantly different from one orbit of the planets to another. So there is nothing inherently “bad” about 2020 or “good” – or even better – about 2021. Only […]
Amid all the grief and fear and terror we’ve experienced from a year of COVID-19, we must count among our few blessings that it has been a year when book sales rose by eight percent. We’ve been quarantined and put on lockdown in our homes, where we could have whiled away our time watching Netflix […]