If you love dogs, Italy, and a good laugh, this is the book for you. It's told as only Dino, my American Eskimo dog, could do it. It's a fantasy memoir like none other.

First the News

Dear Readers, Many of you know that I wrote my first book as a fantasy/memoir of my life in Italy. But did you know that the next books I wrote were middle grade fantasies? It happened like this.

After seeing Dog Days in Italy: How I Became an Expat Dog, three little boys in my life asked if I was going to write a story with them in it. Well, what started as a story became The Book of Mysteries, the first book in a fantasy trilogy for middle grade readers and readers of all...

First the News:

My first cozy mystery, The Glass Ceiling Club, is free on Amazon through the 26th.

Then the Musings

“There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.” Emily Dickenson

So much said with so few words. I have always admired Emily Dickenson’s poetry. Succinct, yet elegant. Deep yet pithy. Obviously not exactly my writing style, but at least I’m not overly lengthy, lugubrious, and dense. That said, I didn’t start writing until later in life. But once I retired from my management...