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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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,...

Before the 4th of July every year I read this blog post that I initially wrote in 2018. It's mostly depressing to see where we've been...

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...

It will happen again. It will be in a school, a theater, a church, a mall, at a concert, any where people are gathered. It will happen...

Mike Pence says his prayers are with the Santa Fe, Texas community. Thanks, Mike. Apparently, we Americans will always have some tragedy...

I suspect when we read about less than stellar mothers, it makes us feel like we might have done a good job. Dysfunctional families in...

I originally published this blog last year. Around the week of my birthday, several things happened, coincidences that I probably...

Some of my favorite novels are told from the point of view of the unreliable narrator: Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, The Girl on...

I went to Atlanta last weekend to help my friend, Mark David Gibson, launch his memoir, Served in Silence. It’s a riveting coming of age...

I like a good southern author, and Pat Conroy was one of my favorites. Prince of Tides is a memorable novel. That’s why I picked up a...