“Now who would like to become a priest or a nun when you grow up?” the priest asked a second grade class at St John’s Elementary School in 1962. All the children raised their hands or “flippers” as the author wryly calls them.... Read More

"Dead Serious" is a mature but not at all staid fusillade against the difficulties of maintaining relationships and the stubborn persistence of uncrackable existential mysteries. Men and women operate in opposition, although at other... Read More

In 1913 an upscale jewelry store in Rome Italy is robbed of jewels and diamonds worth millions of dollars. The robbers Gaetano and Guido attempt to smuggle the loot aboard a ship carrying immigrants to America. Fast-forward a hundred... Read More

“Some experts contend that as many as 50% of students who experience learning difficulties in school may have some degree of functional vision disorder,” states the author, an occupational therapist with more than thirty-one years of... Read More

Furrows of fun are planted on each page of this runt sized (51/2“ x 51/2“) book: 101 Uses for an Old Farm Tractor. Wry bons mots at page tops are hitched to a tractor picture and a caption. “Jungle Jim”: A threshing crew of... Read More

Jesse’s “dumb” homework assignment, put off as usual until the last minute, is to write a report about how his family arrived in Canada and what conditions were like in their country of origin. He’s panicky about getting the... Read More