1Sep 12, 2016
A week ago, Bob and Judy Torrens, who have been adopted into the Kaufman family, honored my published novel with a framed photo of one of the more memorable if peripheral characters, Varmint the raccoon. Thank you so much for this thoughtful gift, which sits on my bedroom shelf and has so far survived the […]
2Aug 16, 2016
A couple blogs back, I posited the idea that I might base my next work on the life of Thaddeus Stevens, the Great Commoner who was more committed to the cause of Emancipation than Abraham Lincoln, and who dedicated his last years to legislating Negro suffrage and education. The fact that he had been greatly […]
3Aug 10, 2016
As big as Donald Trump’s mouth is, you’d think he wouldn’t have room left for any more of his foot. But he manages. The latest is this statement: “Hillary [Clinton] wants to abolish — essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing […]
4Aug 5, 2016
In search of a new project — not that I’ve finished the current one — I recently started looking into Thaddeus Stevens, one of the first great Republicans, and one who had as much to do with ending slavery as Abraham Lincoln. As a subject, it’s still iffy. I am finding that he was a […]
5Jul 14, 2016
When I named my three kittens after characters in my book, I did not expect them to try to re-enact a key scene. In the Midst of Death… opens with a minor but pivotal character called Varmint, a raccoon who gets her foot caught in one of Ralph Folsom’s traps, thus triggering a series of […]