Jacob glanced back up at the stage, realizing he had temporarily forgotten where he was. He held the paper in his hands, folded it over a couple of ti...

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He had been in their house on a couple of other occasions, typically passing through on the way to the backyard feasts. The staircase with the large, ...

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After growing up on mostly rock and pop, I find these days that I alternate between classic jazz and…country.  Rock and pop songs I&rsquo...

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I was riding with a bunch of colleagues last night when the subject turned to old TV shows—specifically, The Love Boat and its memorable cast of...

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Roughly 31 years ago I wrote my first “novel,” about a mechanical Great White shark; I wonder what the inspiration might have been? Fourte...

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I’ve been reading a book about Paris during the time when writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and other expatr...

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  The beginning of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ audio series version of Jazz starts with the testimony of a gentleman who was lucky en...

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Today, while touring a display of the works of blown glass artist Dale Chihuly, I was struck by a written summary of his work. Chihuly, a plaque on th...

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