“In this crisis and on TV you just need to look more hard-working…ROLL UP THE SLEEVES!“ —E-mail from Sharon Worthy to FEMA Director Michael Brown (September 3 2005) Perhaps no other individual has more information on the historic... Read More

There’s no reason to become alarmed and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane? —Airplane! [the movie] (1980) "Rough Air Ahead" is the forecast for would-be... Read More

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must fervently believe upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. —Stephen A. Brennan "Business Plan or Bust!" is a terrific tool for... Read More

On September 11 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City were destroyed by two planes hijacked by terrorists. This atrocity perpetuated an iconoclasm that completely changed the sixty-year isolationist and untouchable feeling of the... Read More

"Sagaponic Lane" peeks beneath the personal emptiness of the Hamptons’ adulterous idlers and the summering arts crowd. Driven by efficient dialogue filtered through a largely sympathetic character this insiders’ revelation of frailty... Read More

“My kingdom will survive only in so far as it remains a country difficult of access, where the foreigner will have no other aim, with his task fulfilled, but to get out.” —Attributed to King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud (1876-1953) Today... Read More

“Knowledge is power” may sound cliché, but that’s the crux of what the authors present in these three discs with one intriguing title. Why is knowledge so powerful? Because it gives an advantage. And advantage is what it’s all... Read More

Peter Schmitt’s third book of poems offers a mix of poetic virtues—clean, accurate language, unobtrusively patterned lines and stanzas—and qualities more often linked to prose. Virtually every poem in "Renewing the Vows" tells a... Read More