Some while ago, two students in Forest, Virginia, reached out to me regarding a National History Day project they were producing about the b...

  Four months ago today, on Nov. 4, 2022, I left The Providence Journal, where I had been a staff writer for 41 years, to become director of...

My 21st book was published in print and e-Book editions on Sept. 22, 2023, and the audio version will be published by Oct. 10. Order now! Fr...

  Author's Note: I wrote this 12 years ago, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of my father's death. Like his memory, it has w...

I closed my November 4, 2022, farewell to The Providence Journal promising word soon of “adventures that await.” Ten days later, I am thri...

  After 41 years and nine days at The Providence Journal, I completed my final shift on Friday, November 4, 2022. I left voluntarily, after ...

Thanks, Will, and thanks Jay, Pat, Jim, Kathy, Terry and Craig. And a big hello to Eleanor, Doug and Nancy, Linda, Rob, David and Astrid, an...

In late-summer 1986, the young Prince Charles visited Harvard to speak at the school's 350th anniversary celebration. I was among the jo...

Herewith a short story -- free for the read -- that is set at a time of pandemic, with a twist of the extraterrestrial, one of the themes fr...