I LOVE the new Wonka Movie. Like LOVE it. And I am not a huge Willy Wonka fan - I think most of Roald Dahl is creepy and trippy and I...

Oh how I love these solvers of mysteries. Yesterday, I debated with my wife why it is that Sherlock gained more popularity in the United...

As part of my New year's Resolutions, I've decided to complete all of the books I've started that haven't finished. Well, let me amend...

For the first time in years, I have literally nothing, NOTHING, out in the world waiting for editors or publishers to accept or reject....

2023 was a hard year. As was 2022, 2021, 2020...basically every year since I became a parent in 2009. From long drawn out court...

This year I did not write. I did not exercise. I did not start any new hobbies. I rediscovered my unparalleled love of reading. And I...

Netflix looks at your watch history and then suggests movies and shows for you based on what you've binged. And one of the categories...

My son is 16 and learning to drive. This is terrifying. Not only because he is a teenage boy who wants to get behind the wheel of a car -...

Some words are just so delightful. I discover them while reading and collect them in notes - yet I have never had a chance to use them....

The hardest part of grief, for me, is that fact that the world does not stop. Laundry still needs to be done, traffic still makes you...

For the first time in my adult life - I have hours and hours of time alone. Children are at camp, school, or working. My wife is enrolled...

My grandmother's maiden name was Wright. And she teased that she became all wrong when she married my grandfather. And my grandfather's...

I grew up in Barkhamsted. When people ask me where that is, I usually joke and say, drive to the middle of nowhere - and then go 5 more...

Do you ever think about the vows we make to an animal when we decide to take them in as a pet? It feels like a deeper commitment than...

My grandmother loved to find money (I mean, in fairness, who doesn't). She'd bend for every coin, nothing too small. Once, when on a...

So I've compiled a Chapbook of my poems. A chapbook is a small pamphlet-like collection of poetry. Usually an poets's first attempt at...

When I was a kid, I always insisted on taking all of the paper off of crayons. Taking each shred of paper off until the smoothness of the...

Although I can mostly carry a tune, I do not consider myself musically inclined. In third grade I was wooed by the romance of playing the...

March 13, 2020 everyone went home. "Two weeks" everyone told us. "Two weeks" to clear out the buildings, to take some space, to give the...

I have only traveled outside of the United States a handful of times. And outside of home, the only country I have traveled to more than...