What I’m streaming
This (very short) story starts with Edward Susumu Curry, MD,  a Yale-educated pediatrician and a leader among his peers, a smart, compassionate person who was widowed when his two sons were very young…  

What I’m reading
Mark Wheaton’s action-packed and beautifully written Father Luis Chavez Mystery Trilogy is more about modern social issues than it is about religion, though Los Angeles gang member and recently-ordained priest Father Luis  Chavez underpins his search for justice, which  at times turns violent, with his struggle to live consistent with his faith…

I’m more of a reader than a writer. I think of myself that way, but it’s also an assertion that’s evidence-based. In sum total, I’ve written one thriller, am writing a second in that series, one traditional mystery, and four short stories. But at two to three novels a week, for at least twenty years,

Past Event: Monday, January 18, 2021
Photo is of MLK III and me one summer when Coretta Scott King and the King kids came to visit our family. (My dad played a small role in the early civil rights movement and came to know the King family through that.)

What I’m Reading
…the voice of Stevens never wavers throughout the telling and  I  could feel his quiet pride at his strengths and  his discomfort  with  his missteps.  In that  achievement alone,  the fact that I felt as though I coexisted, at times, with Stevens’  inner being, makes  the novel extraordinary. Read more…