

Why I Decided To Investigate Organized Crime While I Was in Canada
If it accomplishes nothing else, that headline draws you in, doesn't it? It's the same way my imagination was captured when I saw a sign that said "Organized Crime Winery" while driving on a Canadian freeway. Since my oldest son Ryan moved to Toronto seven years ago to work in the theater industry there, I have driven the 1,250-mile round trip several times to visit him. When you cross the border at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, you are on the Queen Elizabeth Way, a major fr
Feb 12


My Eighth Decade Begins Today: Could It Possibly Be Better Than The First Seven?
Can you imagine us years from today Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be seventy. -- From "Old Friends" ...
Jan 13, 2025


My Conversation With The Author Who Beat Me To My Great Idea ... And Why His Books Are Must-Reads
To indulge my longstanding interest in sports trading card collecting, for a couple of years I hosted a Sports Card Traders Special...
Oct 5, 2024


She Made A Difference For This One
Dr. Gary Mathews, the superintendent of the Williamsburg/James City County School Division where I worked as its lead communications...
Mar 23, 2024


Smothers & Schickele: We Lose Two Vastly Different Comic Geniuses Within Weeks Of Each Other
Long before the movie "Mighty Wind," which skewered the entire genre of '60s era folk music and the many overly serious documentaries...
Jan 26, 2024


20 Years Of Living In This Living Museum, And I'm Still Not Bored
I was 15 years old when my parents first brought us kids to experience the magic of Colonial Williamsburg, America's largest living...
Nov 27, 2023

