As we face the Christmas season here in the midst of a pandemic, we do so having learned through Thanksgiving about human nature and the willingness to alter traditions for…

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.;”  John Greenleaf Whittier I remember reading this quote years ago.  I tried to take…

Going through high school and college at the end of the 1960’s and the first half of the 1970’s, I had been told over and over how highly ranked my…

I am a lover of biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies.  I like to get to know interesting people in depth, see how they tick, learn what led them to the achievements…

There was a time when I had some people in my life who seemed intent on making me feel less than.  In particular, they questioned my intelligence.  A couple merely…

What makes reading such a wonderful experience? What makes people want to pick up a book or a Kindle and spend hours of their time turning pages and absorbing the…

I had an interesting question posed to me last week.  I’ve been pondering it and agonizing over it for days.  Frankly, it has put me into a real funk and…

Today I am starting what I hope will be a series of posts introducing you to one writer at a time. That’s not to say that I won’t go back…