by mike | Jan 17, 2022 | Baseball, Life, Sports, Uncategorized, Women |
Rachel Balkovec has broken through the domed ceiling of professional baseball in a big way. The New York Yankees had hired her in 2019 as their hitting coach, making her the first woman to hold that position full-time. And recently the Bronx Bombers promoted her as...
by mike | Jan 6, 2022 | Aging, Films About Writers, Humor, Life, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
Let’s hear it for women who find the courage to tell the patriarchy where to shove it! This post first ran in 2018. In this, the era of #MeToo, when women are making it clear that they’re fed up with the bullshit to which they’ve been subjected from men since the days...
by mike | Dec 27, 2021 | Aging, Books, Life, Movie Lines, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I first ran this post seven years ago, and a few times since. Does life change much? You be the judge. As the year 2021 comes to an end this week, I got to thinking: how in the name of Zeus’s butthole did it pass so quickly?! I guess when a year is 1/75th of your...
by mike | Dec 23, 2021 | California, Life, Travel, Uncategorized |
Yosemite is one of this country’s most amazing national parks. This post first ran in 2018. I arrived in California to stay over forty-eight years ago. Jacqueline, my bride, did the same over three decades past. Yet neither of us, during all that time, set foot in...
by mike | Dec 20, 2021 | Life, Uncategorized |
High hopes for a much better New Year from Jacqueline, Mike, and our little buddies!
by mike | Dec 13, 2021 | Books, Holocaust, Life, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
I’ve stepped out of my comfort zone a number of times in the more than two dozen novels that I wrote, a scene here, a chapter there. But with my award-winning thriller, Freedom’s Hand, I authored the entire book from a location far away from my comfort zone. All of my...
