Moonlight Falls is basically film noir on paper. It’s about Richard “Dick” Moonlight, suicide survivor who now must cope with a small piece of .22 caliber bullet lodged in his brain. Because it’s pressed up against his cerebral cortex he has trouble making good decisions and he suffers on occasion from short-term memory loss. In…
Back in September, I was having dinner with my friends Max and Ilil. Over a second Stoly on the rocks, I bit into my Buffalo Mozzarella and whined about my latest bad date. This one was a real charmer. A vegetarian, she suggested meeting at a leafy green place on the Upper East Side of…
Sixteen years ago, following my father’s death, I found myself obsessed with sitting in front of a typewriter, coming to terms with unresolved issues by banging on keys. This silent venting became a sort of “therapy through writing” exercise. However, this exercise slowly evolved, taking on a life of its own. I began creating a…
“What I’d like to see from you is a book on retirement,” the head editor from Moody Press said to me. Okay, I immediately had conflicting thoughts about that suggestion: On the one side, I had worked with the editor before, and I really like her. And I loved the idea of getting an inside…
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