The other day I was fortunate enough to have my day off synch up with my daughter’s. There is a ramen place in Easton we’d wanted to try, so we headed off to Mister Lee’s Noodles, located within the Easton Public Market. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton or “ABE” Easton is the “E” in the “ABE” region of Lehigh…
I love to collect old books. There, I said it. Books. Paper, ink, that old book smell. I grew up in Brooklyn and used to visit this awesome used book store on King’s Highway. I felt like I was in a treasure room. Fast forward, um, a few years. Enter eBay. Wow! An entire WORLD…
So I’ve kept a few things from my childhood that have stayed with me over the, er, many years, since then. I have handwritten stories in ancient spiral notebooks, report cards, and assorted odds and ends that would mean little to anyone other than myself. One item I resurrected while perusing my memories pile is…
Online retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open its first New York City bookstore in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center, the company said. Source: Amazon to Open First Manhattan Bookstore Brooklyn will always be in my heart, no matter where I’ve moved or live. And I’ve lived in many places, including Staten Island, Long Island, and…
After the love of my life and I wed on October 1, we spent a week in Ireland for our honeymoon. That visit was the second most amazing experience in my life. (I don’t think I need to explain the first, but if you’re running low on caffeine, just read the first sentence over.) Ireland…
I wonder what people think about writers these days. Do you envision us hunched over a rickety wooden desk beneath the flickering oil lamp, dribbling an ebony trail from the tip of the quill back to the inkpot? Or, do you see us tapping merrily away upon the keyboard of a sleek, high-powered computer within…
The simple answer is, VISITOR is a science-fiction novel I wrote. But that is like saying an oak is just a tree. It’s absolutely true, yet unsatisfying and incomplete. What kind of tree? What shape are the leaves? What is the trunk’s circumference? Did it grow among other trees, or did it rise majestically alone atop a…
My life changed forever when I was ten years old, and my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Friedman, gave us a writing assignment. The assignment itself has long escaped my memory, but the story I wrote involved the flowers on my sheets coming to life at night, drawing me into an alternate world. I recall the…
I am sorrowful to learn of Jack Klugman’s passing. He may not have been the most renown actor, but his roles meant a great deal to me as a child, and have remained with me throughout my adulthood. Of course, the Odd Couple was a classic show that brought many hours of laughter, and I always looked…
Comic Con was quite the experience. I went to one when I was like 15, possibly the same event but (ahem) a few years ago and it was nothing like this. Tons of comics, of course, but so much more. The people density was fire alarm scary. If there was an emergency, it would be…
