in progress

At age fifty-six, in an era when most men worked the same job their entire careers, my father was asked to leave Family Life Insurance Company. His boss Tad Fessenden liked and admired him, but Dad was finding it harder and harder to put in the...

This is the story of the strangest and scariest thing to ever happen to me during a Summer day camp in Northern New Jersey in the mid 90s when I was a child...

 Twilight Walking Tours

It's not every day a science-fiction author is hired to write a presidential biography. But in 1997 I was asked to write one about the President of Croatia, the controversial and authoritarian Franjo Tudjman. I am not an historian. At the time I...

                My mate shook me awake.  “Someone’s in the house!  Someone’s in the house!”  Half whispering, half screaming.  Her body curled around the five-...

A horse barn, but that is not really my story. It's more my mother's story.