Not fully successful as a baseball book or as a drama February 1, 2019 Empty Seats, by Wanda Adams Fischer, wants to be a poignant drama about the life lessons, choices, and pressures affecting three young men, all of whom happen to be baseball players. Ms. Fischer has created some very interesting characters with complexity … More Empty Seats, by Wanda Fischer

This story – and I call it a story rather than a novel – is not about plot or characters or the description of the events.  It is about trying to understand what it’s like to be inside the head of a teenage boy, Christopher, who is brilliantly intelligent and also autistic.  The story is … More The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon

On March 13, 2019, I did a radio interview with Todd Ortloff on KONP radio in Port Angeles, Washington (my home town). For podcast-type folks who like listening to such things – here’s the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VMoFWNtK7FcIQsfx9X7NvQ3grX9-VFGS?usp=sharing