by Jeff Smalldon | Mar 27, 2025 | Newsletters
Happy Spring! It’s hard to believe, but St. Patrick’s Day is now in the rearview mirror. For me anyway, probably because of the fabulous year I spent – almost five decades ago! — as a student at Trinity College in Dublin, the day of celebration and remembrance...
by Jeff Smalldon | Dec 9, 2024 | Newsletters
Happy belated Thanksgiving! I’m always relieved when the season’s first serious snowfall has yet to occur by the time Thanksgiving rolls around. As someone who grew up in North Tonawanda, New York, just ten miles from Buffalo, I tend to freeze in snow-readiness mode,...
by Jeff Smalldon | Oct 29, 2024 | Newsletters
Happy Halloween! I expect many of you will agree with me when I say October is one of the year’s best months. The leaves are turning, there’s a chill in the air, lawn mowing is [almost] an afterthought, Halloween is just around the corner, the baseball playoffs are in...
by Jeff Smalldon | Sep 20, 2024 | Newsletters
Greetings friends, One thing I’ve learned of late: promoting a newly-published book requires considerable energy. There I was, on the verge of turning 71 and locked into a pretty steady groove that included a lot of reading, a lot of baseball-watching on television,...
by Jeff Smalldon | Sep 6, 2024 | Newsletters
Greetings on the cusp of a new school year! On the 6th of this month, my book, That Beast Was Not Me, finally launched after a long gestational period. I’m told that lots of readers pre-ordered the book on Amazon, from Barnes & Noble, and directly from Black Lyon...
