June through early-September, 2026

Hi everyone!Summer’s almost gone. Didn’t the Doors say something to that effect almost six decades ago? Rock bands, they come and go. And the seasons they go round and round.With summer’s end comes fall’s beginning. To me anyway, the arrival of fall is always good...

February/March 2025

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...

November 2024

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,...

October 2024

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...

September 2024

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,...