Art for Art’s Sake

I am releasing my second book this week. The title is “Letter Openers: More Essays about Life and Love”. (My first book, released in 2017, was “Can Openers: Essays About Life and Love”). I should share a few thoughts with you about what it is like to release a book. The first thing I should […]

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My First Book Donation

When I announced the publication of my book (Can Openers:Essays About Life and Love), I promised that I would donate all of the proceeds to Philadelphia area charities. I made my first donation to TE Care, a Chester County non-profit that Theresa and I work with.  Details about them can be found at TECare.org. I […]

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The Comments Section

Have you ever taken the time to read an article online, and then read the comments section?  Have you ever been bothered with the nature of online comments? The Guardian newspaper in England published an article about their results with the comments section attached to their online articles. There have been 70 million comments attached […]

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The Snowpocalypse

We are expecting some snow tomorrow night.  It is supposed to last about 24 hours, and may bring up to 18 inches of accumulation. Let the hype begin. One sign of a big storm is that the media gives it a nickname.  Past nicknames have included “Snowmageddon”, “Snowpocalypse”, and of course, “The Storm of the […]

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