Through Violet’s open closet door, readers can see six green shirts, three pairs of jeans, and three pairs of thick brown shoes. These outfits and her hard hat reveal that Violet is a construction worker. "Rocks, Jeans, and Busy... Read More

Author Andre Bruneau has certainly lived an interesting life: he was a high-powered commercial real estate developer, a singer and songwriter, race horse owner, and world traveler. Unfortunately, his uneven and unfocused autobiography... Read More

Some time after the storied California Gold Rush of the early 1850s, a similar excitement occurred when precious metal was found in the Black Hills of what is now South Dakota. As European-American miners flocked to the region, they... Read More

Most movies and books that feature aliens depict them as evil creatures that either want to destroy humans or take over Earth. "Islands Across the Universe" provides a fresh perspective on space aliens. The creatures here are benevolent... Read More

In 1903, long before the paved network of broad interstate highways linked the Atlantic to the Pacific, Holley Gene Leffler’s grandfather, Eugene I. Hammond, and his friend Lester L. Whitman chugged across the USA in a Curved Dash... Read More

The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief, but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.—Hilary Stanton Zunin, Grief Expert Everyone feels grief during their lives, including... Read More

The exchange of impassioned written messages is a time-worn way for lovers to communicate, whether they are separated by great distances or mere miles. They wait impatiently to hear from their beloved and, when no letter arrives, suffer... Read More

Author Cynthia James has figured out why men treat their mistresses better than their wives: The current state of marriages breeds apathy and inattentiveness in husbands. As James puts it, “These men valued me much more when they... Read More