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Winter in Las Vegas brings snow to the surrounding mountains, but milder temps in the valley. I really like living in Las Vegas, except...

I so dislike spamming my site members with book sales, but it's something I simply must do. All three titles are on sale for just 99...

When I first wrote this blog post, I thought I only had a female nesting, but now I see that it's a male and female pair of Anna's...

I could not believe that a daily newspaper in a city the size of Las Vegas (3 million) would endorse Donald Trump for president. But the...

As the Hubster and I sat down to breakfast at the Black Bear Diner this morning, the stereo speakers began streaming the song, “Dedicated...

I'm doing a total rewrite on my mystery ICE AND FIRE, the sequel to OUT AND IN. The rewrite was due to a law enforcement change in...

Newsweek magazine recently published an op-ed written by some sort of psycho-social PhD, titled "Taylor Swift is Not a Good Role Model."...

Below, I'm posting (with the author's permission) an article written by Heather Cox Richardson in response to media attacks on President...

This next week, I'd planned to send a PDF of ICE AND FIRE to beta readers and interested pals. ICE AND FIRE is a sequel to my...

Here's my mom Jane Kennedy Dunlap (and dad, Ward) on their wedding day, Jan. 18, 1944. Reared in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Mom was the only...

First off, I loved American Fiction's satirical portrayal of the NY publishing scene and its biased attitudes toward Black or minority...

The week of January 29, the Hubster Bill was fighting a cold, or so we thought. We've had a plethora of flu and Covid vaccines so we did...

On October 25, we arrived from the Big Island of Hawaii to our new home in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada, except we’re not yet...

A young New York girl is safe after being kidnapped at a state park. Her story ignited angry memories about a similar attempt to abduct me.

Past lives is the mature love story about two Korean childhood sweethearts who can't get the other out of their hearts and minds,.

Dear President Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom, I'm a middle-road-liberal. In fact I donate to Joe Biden's campaign. But I'd like to...

If you think it is savvy political policy to: Denigrate higher education and bad-mouth climate science by calling it "elitism," Restrict...

Some of my readers already know, while some may not. My publisher A.M. Chai Literary has redesigned the book cover for Out and In: a...

I so dislike the term "pro-life" because most of us are "pro-life," in that we want all lives to be nurtured and respected. But what the...