Symbols, anthems, and mascots play a role in defining a group’s unity. They bring the group together and unite them when in opposition to another. Schools us...

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk By Kathleen Rooney St. Martin's Press Lillian Boxfish knows a thing or two about a thing or two. The story was inspired, in part...

On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, ICE raided a poultry production plant in Morton, Mississippi. The company, Koch Foods, so far has no charges for illegally empl...

Book Review The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 2019, Celadon Books, Division of Macmillan Publishers Suspense Magnified The Silent Patient is an appropri...

Book Review When We Left Cuba, by Chanel Cleeton Berkley an Imprint of Penguin Random House @2019 When We Left Cuba is character driven and checks all the bo...

The Mueller Report Book By Robert S. Mueller Brown Books Publishing Group Every American voter should read The Mueller Report. The version I have linked to i...

The most frequent question I get about the stories I write is, “Where did you come up with that?” It’s not really one thing that inspires my stories, but sev...

I don't want to talk politics. I want to talk fashion and book genre. Netflix has been our go-to for television viewing lately. It's hard to believe there ar...

Mahjong is a tile based game started in China in an ancient dynasty. It has been mentioned in novels like Driving Miss Daisy, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen ...

Educated by Tara Westover Random House ©2018 I like a good autobiography and this one is especially interesting because at the time of publication, 2018, the...

I’m watching a Netflix documentary on two murders in Ada Oklahoma in the early ‘80’s. John Grisham published a nonfiction book about the cases in 2006 titled...

Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens, G.P. Putnam' Sons, 2018 First, let me say I enjoyed reading this book, even though the premise is unbelievable. In t...

Meg Miller is making her crime-solving debut in a holiday story with unpredictable twists and turns. She's a sixty-something widow, retired librarian, commun...

We went to the symphony this afternoon. It was the Halloween performance. The Galveston Symphony has an entertaining and engaging conductor, Trond Saeverud. ...

You never know about these quote memes. Sometimes quotes are attributed to people when they didn't actually say them. But let's assume David Bowie did make t...

When Bessie Black stood in her living room and told me she put her Christmas tree up in the Ember Months, I thought it was something she made up. I thought i...

In 1959 Elisa Perez, her sisters, mother, and father leave Cuba as Batista falls to Fidel Castro. She leaves behind a forbidden love, their stately mansion, ...

When I started writing Birdie & Jude, my dog, Ollie, was declining and eventually had to be put down. Birdie has a terrier in the story, so his name became O...

I'm on my second cup of coffee, watching a series from the History Channel on the forefathers of America, and it's storming outside. They were rebels with a ...

My son got a dog for Christmas. Her name is Savannah. That was the name given to her in the New Dawn Rescue Shelter. When we picked her up, six months ago, s...