Verb Plow

And I mean it. My new book Young Woman & the Sea (see previous posts) was just selected a “Best Summer Read” by the Wall Street Journal,...

Once upon a time when I was beginning to write sports and social history, the print portion of what flacks and reviewers usually call “exhau...

P.O.W. Two weeks since the war started and I have already surrendered thrown up the white flag relinquished my gun, and turned myself over. ...

One of my all-time favorite quotes is from Wilcy Moore, one of the first relief pitchers and a key member of the 1927 Yankees. "I ain...

There is a small vernal pond between my house and the lake. Despite its size, ever changing light, water levels and season flora make it ne...

No matter what you write or in what genre, occasionally read your work into a tape recorder and then listen to it closely when you play it b...

Seven or eight years ago, as I neared the end of my adult amateur baseball career, for the first time in my life I found myself playing a lo...