With the cold air and snow we are getting in January, I wanted to share a little bit of heat. Just a bit to warm you up. I have a new book by John Martell coming out, a wonderfully passionate romantic drama. I thought, before that comes out, how about a bit of summer heat to take the chill off. This is a simple story, no real plot, just a slice of life. Though it very well mirror the life of a teenage boy on the early days of summer back in the 1980s at his family's old beach house. It was...

With the coming of Halloween, the cooler days, the earlier nights, the darker evenings, and that crisp white moonlight that shines...

My father was fascinated with astronomy, so one of the many things he did was give me a big map of the constellations to hang on my wall....