In the early 1980s, I was on my higher education journey at SUNY New Paltz. Writing Composition, I and II were new things required of all first-year students. Like many college youth, I thought I knew everything and was totally confident in my abilities even though that confidence was based in absolutely no academic...
On November 30, 2021, at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan, a little after one-o’clock in the afternoon, Ethan Crumbley, fifteen-years-old, exited in the boys bathroom with a semi-automatic in hand and started shooting. Four students were killed in the attack, seven injured, and hundreds left with deep psychological shock and trauma that will...
During Covid-19 I had the honor of winning the Stephen DiBiase prize for poetry. This even is usually coupled with a reading but because of Covid there was no reading. Well, this year, I have been asked to read with the current winners. A great afternoon of poetry. I am so happy that poetry...
My first adult full-length novel, Diamond City, hits the bookshelves today. You can, of course, order it off Amazon or whatever site you normally order books. Please ask for it at your local library and your local bookstores, too! The reviewers say: From the pacing of the story down to the characters’ palpable paranoia and tension,...
I will be a guest on WDST Radio 100.1 on Sunday, March 26th at 7:30 a.m. with poet Guy Reed and host Victoria Sullivan. We’ll be reading some of our poems and talking poetry. Tune in if you’re up early!...
Today, at a news conference, the Philadelphia police identified “The Boy In the Box.” For those of you who haven’t heard of “The Boy in the Box,” also sometimes called “America’s Unknown Child,” he is a four year old boy who was found on February 25, 1957, murdered in a bassinet box in a...
So, you want to write a novel? Every November, is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and people all over the world write for thirty days and quite a few get a first draft of a novel. I am joining forces with NaNoWriMo’s Young Writers Program and the Poughkeepsie Library to help teens write novels....
The Warner Library is hosting my Astrology 101 program on Wednesday, May 18th at 7:00 PM via Zoom. Free and open to all. Register here: https://bit.ly/3ON0Tte....
How do you recover from a Valentine’s Day on a MONDAY? Well, on Tuesday, February 15th, make a nice homemade meal, pour a glass of wine and tune into Zoom for talk on The Astrology of Love. The Poughkeepsie City Library will be hosting me at 6 p.m. as I give a humorous and,...
Like so many, I followed the story of Gabby Petito, the woman who went missing on a cross country trip with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie I found myself refreshing news sites many times a day for more information on the pretty blonde. More and more news outlets picked up the story. Because of this,...
