So What is Your Excuse?

“I’ll never forget the first time we met. But I’ll keep trying.” Don’t even bother telling me your name. I’ll just forget it within about five minutes. I’m really bad at remembering names. Even right after being introduced to someone and...

Most People are Good

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” (Kurt Vonnegut) We’ve almost made it past my generation, but unfortunately there are a few hold-overs. I think there should be both age and term-limits for...

The Victim

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.” (Mary Higgins Clark) My book, RUNNING SHOES, is fiction. The story and the characters are made up. There are three brothers and a sister in the story, just like my real life family before my two...

Forgiveness:

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”(Oscar Wilde) God tells us to forgive our enemies. Does he want us to annoy them? I have found that women (not the enemy) can recall the details of everything men say and do. They are wired that way. Sometimes...

Silence is Golden

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” (Thomas Jefferson). Personally, I sometimes prefer no words. I participated in a “murder mystery” recently and I was assigned the role of “Iconic...