Monthly Archive: June 2018

This is just a quick note to say that I haven’t written a witty or meaningful blog post for today because I am hard at work writing my next book The Date Square Dharma. I’m somewhere in what I think will be Chapter Seven, which is entitled How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?  and Olivia is having a huge argument with her mother, which…
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I don’t know what you were doing in the summer of 1975, but I can tell you what I was doing:  if the sun was up, I was probably riding my bike at an insane speed down a gravel hill with my best friend, Bruce.  We were ten at the time and we would put hockey cards into the spokes of our bikes to…
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My sainted grandmother (or maybe it was Special Agent Dale Cooper on Twin Peaks, I can’t remember for sure now,) but one of them always said, “Every day, give yourself a little present.” I would add that it is especially important to take that advice to heart during challenging times. Like when your report cards are due and there’s no AC in your classroom and…
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The first dog my partner and I ever had was a greyhound that we named Milo – that’s him in the picture above. Please note the soulful, please-give-me-a-biscuit eyes. He was a “retired” racing greyhound – the retired part is highly qualified because although he trained for two years to race and he was very fast, he didn’t make the cut.  He had virtually…
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