When I was a young boy growing up in the suburbs of southeast Houston, every Christmas Eve I would sneak out onto our screened front porch and stare into the night sky as I tried to spot Santa’s...
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‘Terms of Endearment’ followed ‘The Last Picture Show’ with great fanfare, but it was his Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Lonesome Dove’ that cemented his legacy as one of America’s best...
I read about the bookseller in Long Beach that had become trapped when the shelves in his store collapsed on top of him. I didn’t need to ask which books fell on him. I already imagined that he...
I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD EVENTUALLY arrive that would require a dreaded in-person visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles — a premise that Stephen King should have considered as a theme for...
Like Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” narrator Nick Carraway, I live directly across the street from the exclusive turf of another extravagantly wealthy businessman — Rick Caruso's Palisades...
The Last Newspaper Reader in America My college journalism professor demanded such dedication in pursuit of accuracy and definitive facts on each assignment that I still hold the profession in much...
Britt Ekland opened her dressing room door and grabbed my arm. She stood in the doorway clad only from the waist down, while holding her blouse close to her chest and leaving little to my...
