The Write Angle

(Originally published on 8/1/13) Recently, I unearthed a box load of papers from my high school years (1976-1980). For more than thirty y...

(Originally published 8/18/13) Once upon a time, hot, humid, and lightning bugs were the stuff of summer evenings in the place I called h...

Imagine David Letterman still hosting a late-night talk show and doing a Top Ten list. Perhaps he’d have a Zohran Mamdani-inspired one—a “To...

It’s become customary at wakes nowadays for families to display photo montages of the dearly departed. Before writing the manuscript for a b...

(Originally published 4/15/21) Recently, I made the colossal mistake of ordering the “Meatloaf Special” at a local diner. I ignored my years...

(Originally published 10/25/12) For some reason unbeknownst to me, I remember this particular date in history. Thirty-seven years ago, on ...

(Originally published 9/2/19) It being Labor Day, the unofficial end of yet another summer, I cannot help but hark back to those habitua...

(Originally published 8/29/12) On August 29, 1977, exactly thirty-five years ago, the world was a decidedly different place from m...

In the fledgling years of the new century, I pitched many book ideas to publishers, some via literary agents and some not. Perseverance in t...

Remember the autograph books that were once upon a time the rage at graduation time? The books our classmates both signed and penned such pr...

(Reprise from 4/14/2016) I spotted this man on the street recently who reminded me of someone—someone from the distant past. The words “ve...

(A summer reprise from 2011. Wow, I've been doing this blog for quite a while now. By the way, my e-novel, Cream Sam Summer , based in p...

(Originally published 7/22/10) While combing through a box load of miscellaneous relics from the past, I came upon a Bohack's supermark...

(Originally published 7/18/18) Once upon a time, I lived on the top floor of a three-family home in the Bronx. I was one of five kids in a f...