Wynton Marsalis makes magic at Jimmy’s
Notes of love, friendship, integrity and the resilience of the human spirit floated through time in a one-of-a-kind space created especially for listening to such things, as Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club on Saturday welcomed the legendary trumpeter/bandleader Wynton...
‘Crazy Johnny’ pitches novel in TV ad parody
As a first-time author who is also a lifelong humorist, the quest for wild and crazy ways to promote my first book (“A Man of Remarkable Restraint,” Encircle Publications) has inspired this borderline uproarious TV Ad parody. CRAZY JOHNNY !!! … is the fake, cheesy TV...
Father’s advice to son was ‘write stuff’
My dad died a few days before Christmas in 2005. And, boy, did he love to laugh. He also, as parents do, possessed profound insight into the lives of his children. When I graduated from college, I knew that I loved to write but had little idea about what type of...
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Antarctica [Virtual Book Tour]
Popped over to Antarctica today for the first stop on my International “A Man of Remarkable Restraint” Virtual Book Tour … Not sure why the first stop is here in Antarctica, but we are definitely planning to hit all seven continents so might as well start at the South...
Trump triples down on quote about shooting people
By John Breneman Expanding upon his recent observation that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters,” likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump added today that if the people he shot were Muslims and Mexicans,...
My favorite spaceman
Long, long ago, in a galaxy that now seems very far away, I got a chance to interview a future astronaut. The year was 1987 — long before my career as an internationally obscure writer had achieved liftoff — and the future spaceman was a fellow York (Maine) High...
Photographer Ozzie Sweet: He made Einstein laugh
One of the profound honors of working as a journalist is the privilege of peeking into the lives of fascinating human beings. Showing up with a pen and some paper. Sharing a conversation. Then telling their story. I spent about three hours with Ozzie Sweet at his home...
