A Touch of Tarragon

This is probably not the year to be crowding into public places to ring in the New Year. It was a bad year for meeting under the mistletoe. ...

  a Three's a charm...and three anthologies that include my stories all showed up in my mail this past month. Though Friends had appeare...

"Grandma Fang's Clowder of Kittens" has just been published in a new Wising Up Press anthology, Goodness . The anthology is ...

    I won't go so far as to say that everything's coming up roses. It's been a harrowing year from day one. What happened on Ja...

Rose Center Theater Courtyard The last time I saw or heard live music was March 13 at the Maverick Theater in Fullerton. I'd gone to ...

  Scotts Mills, September 12, 2019 One of my former journalism students sent me a piece a day ago about those fighting fighting to save Scot...

When I picked up Neil Postman's 1985 landmark book, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, the librar...