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Sometime back, I came into possession of a large box of letters written by my father during his soldiering years, World War II. I haven’t gone through them all and, in fact, years go by between visits. There’s a...

I’m in the process of downsizing, moving to a much smaller & as yet undetermined location. One of the painful aspects of that is figuring out what to do with all my beloved books — the ones I’ve read and the ones I’ve written. In fact, I just returned from a quick trip to my neighborhood middle school, where I donated a bunch of books for classroom librar...

I sat down last night, a book on my lap, a cup of tea on the table, along with an orange sliced into quarters.

And I took a bite and thought:

Th...

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In an era of great book covers, this one strikes me as pretty bad. But just wait till you get inside!

I’m reading Susan Orlean’s extraordinary memoir, Joyride. She is, quite obvious...

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I want to start with the thank you’s before getting to the more interesting stuff. Boring, I know. I half expect to hear the orchestra play me off stage. I’ll be quick, promise.

I was invited to participate at Saturday’s Poughkeepsie Children’s Book Festival and it was a really nice day that couldn’t have happened for me without the h...