The opening scene of The Monuments Men gave me chills. It opens with the priests at the Saint Bavo Cathedral frantically packing up the panels of the Ghent Altar Piece and driving them away just ahead of the advancing Nazis. This scene also made me wonder how many people are able to identify this work. […]
A Touch of Humor
I’m always on the lookout for something that makes me laugh, or at least causes an involuntary grin. My favorite occurrences of humor are the ones I encounter in the wild. That would translate into real life. I think the most uncontrollable belly laughs I’ve experienced are the ones where I’ve been goofing around with […]
Reading Kindle eBooks sans Kindle
If you’ve read any of the books in my “Sudoku Player” series, you’d know that I’m always up for a good tech mystery along with the process involved in tracking down the solution. However, as of the date of this post, my books are only available from the Amazon Kindle Store. That means they’re only […]
The Internship Movie Review
My wife and I set aside one evening a week, either Friday or Saturday, to potentially watch a movie from Xfinity On-Demand. I say potentially, since things can go in either direction. Various factors hold sway over us actually sitting down and clicking the on-screen “Buy” button. First, there can be no Wizards games being […]
What’s an Author Platform?
Who knew that the writing part of the self-publishing game would be the easy part? Writing a full-length novel is a popular item on many a bucket list and it wasn’t that long ago that this remained one of the items unchecked when finally kicking the proverbial pail. Swimming with dolphins and running a marathon […]