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Forty Years and Counting

Forty Years and Counting

A few years ago I connected with mystery writer SJ Rozan on social media, and I had the pleasure of meeting her in person at a writer’s conference last summer. She recently expressed her disdain for the word “journey” as a description of one’s career path or life...
The Gratitude List

The Gratitude List

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” —Ernest Hemingway   By the time this post finds its way onto the interwebs, the Thanksgiving holiday will be less than twenty-four hours away. I’ve already been to the...
Revisiting the Island

Revisiting the Island

When I was just turning twelve, my parents gave me a stack of five brand-new paperbacks for Christmas. I seem to recall that they were chosen by my father, which was kind of rare, since my mother typically did most of the Christmas gift planning and shopping when my...
Z Marks the Spot

Z Marks the Spot

The legend of Zorro – the cunning swordsman and masked champion of 19th century California’s downtrodden masses – has been adapted to the big screen and television dozens of times since his story was first told by pulp writer Johnston McCulley more than a century ago....
Nowhere Man

Nowhere Man

As a member of the Boss army for the better part of fifty years, I walked into a screening of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere over the weekend with some measure of trepidation. I wanted to like it, but I knew I might encounter many reasons why I wouldn’t. Written...
A Tale of the Dark Side

A Tale of the Dark Side

Since the publication of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the story has been adapted to the stage, screen, radio and television more than 120 times by American, British and European producers. Film historian Troy...