It's been almost a year since my last post. Although I haven’t written too much here, a lot was going on in the background. The third...

During the past five months, since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, I’ve been swimming in San Francisco Bay where water hovers between...

On the shortest day of the year with rain pouring down outside, I found myself lost in the world of Charles Dickens. During the holidays,...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. If you were in the San Francisco Bay area, you remember that day. I know I...

That’s what I learned from a talk by Robin C. Stuart, a veteran cybercrimes investigator, who laid it on the line last weekend in a talk...

For the past few weeks, I have been visiting a friend of mine who is now in an assisted living facility because of her Alzheimer’s. She...

Did you have a favorite comic book growing up? I did. It was Little Lulu and then Wonder Woman. But times have changed, and my newest...

Not long ago, this knock off of the Kardashian Decade cover that appeared in Hollywood Reporter, August 2017 found its way to my online...

Alar morghulis means “all men must die” in the fictional language High Valyrian. The common response is valar dohaeris, which means “all...

If you follow Twitter, you know that Wednesday is #WisdomWednesday. I like to scan through the posts. Today, some were so saccharine, I...

New Yorker Dru Ann Love loves a good mystery. But more that, she loves introducing new mystery authors to the many readers of her blog,...

I get home from work after 8 pm. It’s dark and it has been cold even here in Northern California. But I still have to take my dog,...

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht, (Published January 30, 2018 by G.P. Putnam's Sons) is a devasting look at ‘comfort women' or...

When I was in high school (back in the days of the dinosaur), my favorite subject was English. I enjoyed reading everything from A Tale...

It had been raining and windy for a few days but there was finally a break in the weather. I pulled McCovey’s harness over his head,...

(Disclaimer – The pie is made from two recipes I found.) More than a month ago when I was planning for Thanksgiving, I asked grandson #1...

I came across this tweet today: I know how HM Braverman feels. I have started working on the second draft of my third mystery in the...

That was said to me when I was a sophomore at Indiana University, Bloomington, In. It was 1962. To be fair, the girl who said it was only...

When the baseball season is over and I’ve worked my last SF Giants game until next March, I morph into an English tutor for first...

A few days ago, a post on one of my social media feeds reminded me that October 17 marked the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake,...