This is more about books and reading and being a weird little kid than about any single book. I was a nerd. A geek. A prototypical Poindexter (a nickname I was actually saddled with for a time). Books didn’t beat me up the way other kids did, so I loved them with all my heart… Read More

Neither the nondescript stores and the black wilderness of the Meadowlands on one side, nor the dark cemetery dotted with barely visible white tombstones on the other, gave me any assistance. Read More

Mom used to joke that I had "the attention span of a gnat." Read More

One meal, though, stands out because I took pictures. Read More

I have always been one who prefers to deal with negative emotions by assiduously not focusing on them Read More

Her name was Barbara but her nickname was, for some reason, "Bool." Read More

Boticelli could not have painted an angel more lovely than Angela. Read More

And a very fetching cat she was Read More

My Mom decided that having a kiddy tea party would be fun. Read More