Recently, a hypothetical question was posed to women on social media: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear? Although there was no unanimous answer, most of the women on sites like TikTok, Instagram and X responded they’d prefer to be alone with...
Lots of things come to mind when I think of the month of May. Everything from May Day to Cinco de Mayo to Mother’s Day to Memorial Day. Yet, for the past 17 years, the first thing that comes to mind is my son’s birthday, May 8. My second thought is that he made me a...
One of my three yet-to-be published novels, simply titled A.I., is sitting—or rather rotting—in my computer, written three years ago when I was inspired by the thought of whether artificially intelligent creatures could mingle successfully with human society. Although...
Like most of you, I am ambivalent about social media. Most of the time it’s a love/hate relationship with both sides swinging wildly to the extremes. At its worst, social media can be an abyss of vile hatred perpetrated by ideologs of all stripes and aimed at complete...
The 18th anniversary of my father’s passing occurred last week, bringing up a lot of memories. Happy, sad and humorous. My dad was highly intelligent, sensitive, creative as well as extremely funny. Deadpan funny at times. Irreverently funny. Like the time he called...
In May, I wrote about the annoying and unrelenting phone calls and texts I had been receiving from questionable salespeople supposedly representing “traditional publishers,” purportedly trying to lure me into a “contract” for “re-publishing” one of my books. At that...
