First, Happy Easter! Also, Sunday, April 8 is Eastern Orthodox Easter – they use a different calendar. So if you’re Catholic or Protestant, and you miss Easter service this Sunday, you can make it up by going to an Eastern Orthodox Church on April 8. You get two shots at this. No excuses. April, said […]
If you didn’t get my January or February Newsletter, it doesn’t mean your free subscription has expired; it means I never sent them out. So, to play catch up, I hope everyone had a great January and February. It was cold as a well-digger’s butt here in the Northeast, and also in much of the […]
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, surrounded by family and friends. We have a tradition at our house where the youngest person at the table yells, “The turkey has salmonella!” Then a guest, dressed as an American Indian, comes into the dining room carrying a tray of sizzling, fat-marbled steaks and shouts, “The Great […]
Whoops! In my October Newsletter I said to those who complained that children (or adults) in Halloween costumes were engaging in cultural appropriation, “Dress like the Tin Man; he had no brain and neither do you.” Well, where was my brain? It was the Scarecrow, of course, who had no brain, as my readers reminded […]
Great news! The Cuban Affair will debut on the October 8 New York Times Best Sellers List at #1! Thanks to all my readers who have put me on the top. And to show my appreciation, I’m having an October Newsletter Contest giving away 10 Unabridged Audiobook CDs of The Cuban Affair to 10 separate […]
If you’re an American, summer is over after Labor Day weekend. For the rest of the northern hemisphere, it’s over on September 21, and autumn begins on the 22nd. More important than the autumnal equinox, which happens every year, is the publication of The Cuban Affair on September 19, making it a fall book, though […]
Hard to believe that summer is half over already – unless you’re reading this south of the equator where it’s winter. It’s worth a trip to Australia or New Zealand just to flush the toilet and watch the water go clockwise. On another subject, if you tuned into CBS Sunday Morning with Lesley Stahl to […]