Fact, fiction, and history intersect when your novel is based on true events.

A “rabbit hole” about America’s post WWII effort called “Operation Paperclip” lead me to writing a novel.

Reflections on a band that inspired me when I was young.

Diving into the Gilded Age and Grant.

ARRGH! How can this be the season finale? Only nine episodes? That’s hardly a season.

A very fortuitous glove shopping trip for George and a slap in the face for Bertha during her luxurious Newport vacation.

Recapping episodes six and seven…a betrayal and an illumination.

More Nathan Lane please, and I believe I know the real-life person that Bertha is based upon.

An episode full of consequential misjudgments!

Episode three turns up the heat.

The second episode of the Gilded Age delivers on the Downton Abbey formula.

A promising first episode of “The Gilded Age” on HBO

Book review of Think Like a Rocket Scientist and some thoughts on “how to” business books.

Book review of the Lost Apothecary. A brilliantly paced historical fiction read!

Re-cap HBO’s “Succession” season three with a few theories about why the Roys are so awful.

The best book I read in 2021.

The life of an amazing American photographer, Lee Miller.

How a case of strep throat and the life of Eleanor Roosevelt ignited my love of history.