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It’s Official: I’m a Girly Man
I started lusting after girls before I hit my teens. I spent my youth playing baseball and basketball. I love horse racing, pro football, and fishing. I enjoy cold beer, straight whiskey, and the occasional cigar. I’ve owned a series of sports cars over the last three decades. Nonetheless, at the relatively ripe old age of 65, I’ve come to the unequivocal realization that I am a girly man.
As with most things in life, my wife came to this conclusion long before I did. Pretty much from the day...
It’s Official: I’m a Girly Man
I started lusting after girls before I hit my teens. I spent my youth playing baseball and basketball. I love horse racing, pro football, and fishing. I enjoy cold beer, straight whiskey, and the occasional cigar. I’ve owned a series of sports cars over the last three decades. Nonetheless, at the relatively ripe old age of 65, I’ve come to the unequivocal realization that I am a girly man.
As with most things in life, my wife came to this conclusion long before I did. Pretty much from the day...
February 2, 2016
If the Character Is an A-Hole, Is the Author One Also?
Edna St. Vincent Millay said, “A person who publishes a book appears willfully in the public eye with his pants down.” I’ve long agreed with Millay’s observation, but never more than since the publication of my new novel, Still Counting.
Based on the early reviews Adam, the male lead character, is universally disliked. Readers find him dumb, insensitive, clueless, and far worse. Here are some of my favorite comments:
“This is a great book for any woman who has dated a moron in the past.” “Ad...January 28, 2016
Bisexuality & Promiscuity In Fact & Fiction
When I began thinking about the bisexuality theme in my new novel, I realized that I had a lot of gay friends but none of them identified as bisexual. Through a friend of a friend I met a young openly bisexual woman who agreed to talk with me.I learned a lot that day, but the most powerful insight was that bisexuals (whether male or female) tend to be misunderstood by both the gay and straight communities. Many people assume that bisexuality is simply a form of “youthful experimentation” and...
Bisexuality & Promiscuity In Fact & Fiction
When I began thinking about the bisexuality theme in my new novel, I realized that I had a lot of gay friends but none of them identified as bisexual. Through a friend of a friend I met a young openly bisexual woman who agreed to talk with me.I learned a lot that day, but the most powerful insight was that bisexuals (whether male or female) tend to be misunderstood by both the gay and straight communities. Many people assume that bisexuality is simply a form of “youthful experimentation” and...
January 27, 2016
Sinatra, the Would-Be Romance Writer
Thousands of books and articles have been written about Frank Sinatra. In all of those works, however, no one has suggested that – had he been an author – Sinatra would have written romance novels, chick-lit, and woman’s fiction. Until now.
Sinatra was an incurable romantic. The list of Hollywood stars he wed or bedded can go head-to-head with the conquests of Clooney or DiCaprio. But those short-lived relationships were never about accumulating bedpost notches. Instead, Sinatra used physical...
January 25, 2016
The GOP’s Bastardization of FDR
Every school child can recite this exhortation from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Fewer Americans, however, remember how FDR revisited this theme in his 1941 State of the Union address to Congress:
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression…The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his...
January 21, 2016
Best Friends & Role Models
Dogs aren’t just our best friends, they can also serve as role models for loyalty, trust, unequivocal love and the ability to embrace every moment of life with unbridled joy.
