In September 2022, I wrote "Why I Like Michael Connelly's Bosch" for the Northern California Chapter, Mystery Writers of America...

The answer is absolutely YES! Recently, on one of those 110-degree days, I submerged myself in a dark cool theater with my extended...

For the past 2 ½ months, I’ve spent some of my swimming time in a 50-meter, Olympic- sized pool wondering whatever possessed me to...

I just saw The Matrix Resurrections, the latest film in The Matrix series. I barely remember the first Matrix from 1999 but this was a...

"Dead Code is an exciting, fast-paced mystery with vivid scenery and very likable characters that readers will cheer for from start to...

DEAD CODE – First Review “Dead Code is not your usual murder mystery. With its satisfying psychological and technological backdrops,...

It's been almost a year since my last post. Although I haven’t written too much here, a lot was going on in the background. The third...

During the past five months, since the start of the Covid 19 pandemic, I’ve been swimming in San Francisco Bay where water hovers between...

On the shortest day of the year with rain pouring down outside, I found myself lost in the world of Charles Dickens. During the holidays,...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta Earthquake. If you were in the San Francisco Bay area, you remember that day. I know I...

That’s what I learned from a talk by Robin C. Stuart, a veteran cybercrimes investigator, who laid it on the line last weekend in a talk...

For the past few weeks, I have been visiting a friend of mine who is now in an assisted living facility because of her Alzheimer’s. She...

Did you have a favorite comic book growing up? I did. It was Little Lulu and then Wonder Woman. But times have changed, and my newest...

Not long ago, this knock off of the Kardashian Decade cover that appeared in Hollywood Reporter, August 2017 found its way to my online...

Alar morghulis means “all men must die” in the fictional language High Valyrian. The common response is valar dohaeris, which means “all...

If you follow Twitter, you know that Wednesday is #WisdomWednesday. I like to scan through the posts. Today, some were so saccharine, I...

New Yorker Dru Ann Love loves a good mystery. But more that, she loves introducing new mystery authors to the many readers of her blog,...

I get home from work after 8 pm. It’s dark and it has been cold even here in Northern California. But I still have to take my dog,...

White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht, (Published January 30, 2018 by G.P. Putnam's Sons) is a devasting look at ‘comfort women' or...

When I was in high school (back in the days of the dinosaur), my favorite subject was English. I enjoyed reading everything from A Tale...