It’s uncivil of me, I suppose, to pick another quarrel with Amazon. After all, for the past week, the company has been running ads for my book, Heart Land, without a request or payment from me. In fact, that they’re running the ad in tandem The Ninth Hour is flattering.  Of cours

It’s a joke so old, I don’t remember the punch line. A guy stands up in a town hall meeting and shouts a number.  People around him laugh. A second person calls out another number and again those present break into applause. The community is so accustomed to one another, they’v

A reader sent me a blog written by a librarian who, after having a daughter, admits she fell into a “cultural wasteland” where neither books nor movies existed. Eventually, her librarian instincts kicked in, and in 2015 she read 164 books, some with pleasure, some because she thou