Anything can happen when there’s a knock at the door.
Read More...Recap of An Evening of Good Taste: Sake Tasting
Two or three times a year, International Arts Movement offers an Evening of Good Taste where you can experience a variety of art forms that tantalize all the senses. In the past there have been wine, chocolate and cheese tastings as well as a bourbon tasting, combined with visual and musical art, not to mention intellectually stimulating lectures. The latest offering was a sake tasting at Dillon Gallery, a benefit toward one of International Arts Movement’s initiatives: Generative Japan…
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7 Crucial Things to Know as the Hero / Heroine in a Mystery Novel
If you’re considering a career change to become the protagonist in a mystery novel, I have several crucial things for you to embrace to ensure your success. You’ll see that the main goal is to continually build suspense. I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
Read More...Only in New York – Oh Wait – Maybe It’s Me
The Pumpkin Muffin Incident
(Back by popular demand…:-)
Having lived in New York City for over a decade now, I’ve seen some curious things. But after a while, I’ve started to question whether it’s the city or possibly me. You be the judge…
Read More...St. Patrick’s Day Mosaic
We are in the midst of a fantastically beautiful St. Patrick’s Day in New York City. The sun is shining, the weather is warm, the celebration is on a SATURDAY, the green beer is flowing, the green shirts and necklaces are bedecking, and the air is full of festive cheer and not too many drunken brawls…just yet.
Read More...Hey Jude
(Listen to it as you read!)
It was 33 years ago. Hey Jude came on the radio. I was in the backseat of our blue Chevy happily smashed between my grandma and grandpa, looking ahead at the forms in the front seat of my mom and dad. I didn’t really hear or understand the lyrics at the time. But I did understand the emotion. The life. The unity.
Read More...I Found My Own Midnight in Paris
I Found My Own Midnight in Paris
I recently watched Woody Allen’s movie Midnight in Paris and my fanciful side was fully captivated. Who hasn’t longed for another time? Another place? Who hasn’t romanticized an era with all the twenty-twenty hindsight of the future?
Well I certainly have. I have been researching the Art Deco era, the 1920′s and 1930′s in New York City and Detroit. It’s for a series of books that I’m writing and I have fallen completely in love with the era…
Read More...A Blind Man in Manhattan
Shortly after we moved to New York, I was walking along the sidewalk, still dealing with the surreal questions coursing through my mind: What on earth have we done??? We LIVE here?? It took me a good six months of living here before I became accustomed to the pace and the miles of walking every single day. I was happy, but exhausted every night; my legs were always tired and I was constantly starving. I was using so much energy I was ravenous, eating a truck driver’s breakfast every morning and my stomach would be growling by lunch.
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