Our First Interview
Joe and I were recently interviewed by a newspaper reporter from the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the bigger city nearby Joe’s hometown of Pittston in which Owning Treasure was set. The...
View ArticleTimes Leader in Wilkes-Barre, PA features Owning Treasure
Recently we were interviewed about Owning Treasure by Sara Pokorny from the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Below is an excerpt from her article from the Sunday, June 17, 2012 edition: The Wyoming...
View ArticleAppomattox Poetry
My highschool senior-year history class was a ton-o-fun, and on occasion I think back to those days, some 22 years ago. How much actual history I learned is debatable (not a lot), but I did get a start...
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40th Anniversary of Hurricane Agnes
It is the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Agnes, an historic storm that wreaked havoc across the eastern part of the United States in the summer of 1972, leaving record-breaking destruction and many...
View ArticleNasty bus ride
I used to have a regular and friendly debate with a guy I worked with over evolution and creation. He would bring in a magazine with a story about our descent from monkeys and I’d say something like,...
View ArticleObamacare
I’m no constitutional scholar – not by any stretch of the imagination. But I do understand one of the foundational principles which guided the framers of the constitution of the United States of...
View ArticleExtreme Left and Extreme Right
There’s this myth out there that says taking the political “right” to its extreme is Fascism while the ”left” taken to its extreme is Communism. It’s been repeated so often that to many it’s just a...
View ArticleAnother Good Review
We had our first unsolicited review recently from someone to whom we have no known connection. (Other reviews were either solicited or from family/friends.) This nice person took it upon themselves to...
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A new review!
Please visit Silver’s Reviews for a well-written positive review of our novel Owning Treasure, as well as her Teaser Tuesday post from last week featuring our book. Our thanks to Elizabeth, the author...
View ArticleWhat Wins Elections
Apparently the most important issues at stake in America today are having the “right” to kill your baby, to compel others to recognize your homosexual union as a “marriage,” the public funding of birth...
View ArticleThe Comma
The comma. I take a very minimalist approach to the comma and believe it should only be used when absolutely necessary. I had a great English teacher in high school who said, “When you write you should...
View ArticleAnd & But to begin with
There’s this grammatical theory out there that we all learn in school that says you shouldn’t start a sentence with “and” or “but.” But I don’t care about that because I like to start sentences with...
View ArticlePicky, Picky
Among my responsibilities in the writing of our books is the careful detection of mistakes in capitalization and spelling. This is not to say that my husband isn’t able to spot them; but it is to say...
View ArticleWords with Friends
I’m just wondering. Is Words with Friends just a fun scrabble-like game? Or is it for revealing the deepest inadequacies of the mere literate? I’ve played Scrabble or Words with Friends with my wife...
View ArticleKeep it Clean
A quick glance through the top 100 books on Amazon.com and it’s easy to see that it’s not just in movies and on TV that sex sells. The commercial success of raunchy so-called literature is...
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