Tis the season, to welcome Scrooge into your home. This is the man Dickens described as a “…a tightfisted hand at the grindstone, a...

Russell Baker, a journalist for the New York Times, called it “New England Gray.” He coined the phrase in a column for the paper in early...

The pandemic has kept us very close to home for the past 18 months, but two weeks ago we headed to Virginia for my father-in-law’s long...

Charles Dickens was the most famous writer of his time, the Victorian equivalent of a rock star. Everyone knew him and most people who...

In a Writers Group meeting, we were prompted to write about a drawer in our house. Our job was to put pencil or pen to paper and begin...

According to a recent Google search, Apple has added my iPod to its list of Vintage and Obsolete Objects. Indeed, Apple has officially...

My possessions, or more accurately, those things that have taken possession of me, might lead an interested party to conclude that I was...

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, “Little pitchers have big ears” is an idiom dating back to the 1500’s. It refers...

We moved into our current house in April and in early June our dog, Woody, died after a short illness. Steve, our veterinarian, was...

In my novel, State of Grace, Rafe Ramsey is the kingpin in an operation smuggling alcohol across the Canadian border during Prohibition....