Several months ago, I broke with the last of my 4 publishers.  I’ve had 4 because the first  became ill and closed the business.  Another bought a company that held my contract and  turned out to be a crook.  Law enforcement eventually shut him down.  A third tried to change t

Some friends dropped by the other day with a book for me to read, Their Eyes Were Watching God.  Published in 1937 by a Zora Neal Huston, the tribute on the cover was written by Alice Walker:  There is no book more important to me than this one. I’d never heard of the author so, b

Thoughts of immortality enter most people’s minds before they cross the final threshold.  Presidents think of their legacy.  Actors imagine their hand prints cemented into a square on Hollywood Boulevard, and no tyrant ever failed to strike a heroic pose for a statue.  On the que