Reading Around

Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin 1888-1989), another of our invaluable immigrants, arrived at Ellis Island from Russia, age five. [...]

Those of us who have had the incredible opportunity to visit the Vatican may not know much  about the popes who once occupied that papal [...]

Peer deep into my troubled eyes,As they cry my sands of time;Falling downward toward my heart,Like tears of bitter lime.Look inside and [...]

We watch the still gray horizon disappear as snow covers all it toucheslike shape shifters taking unexpected forms Trees bow down to [...]

There’s much to praise in Amy K. Green’s debut thriller, The Prized Girl. The story ping-pongs between two sisters, the older Virginia [...]

Lee Goldberg is such a prolific writer that it takes three pages in his new mystery to list his other titles. Known as a writer and [...]

I pause today and wonder, What is and what feels real:My thoughts with morning’s coffee?Or evenings sex appeal?Or just the moon which [...]

May we never forget the Christmases of family; those memories lived before our present days became so busy.  In my family, we were [...]