RANCID
The published version of THE BLUE ROUTE opens with an attempted hit and run in Los Angeles. Earlier drafts of the novel, however, began…
THE LONELY COOL BEFORE DAWN
‘The lonely cool before dawn’ is of course a great, evocative line from one of the best songs ever written: Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”. It’s…
Coverage in Delaware County News Network
Ridley Park resident pens book on Delaware County’s controversies They call it the Blue Route, and residents of the Philadelphia area have both loved…
NORMAN ROCKWELL 2013
It was late on a glittering Sunday afternoon in early summer, and I was riding my bike around the town that I live in….
NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS
The unmarked Air America cargo plane descended from cloud cover like an ungainly bird of prey, a seventy-five foot long silver Frisbee skimming the…
A LONG WAY FROM WALTON’S MOUNTAIN
When I was a kid one of my favorite TV shows was, peculiarly, The Waltons, the syrupy saga of a large, loving family struggling…
MILE 59
I don’t cry very often, for better or worse. I never did, really, not even as a child. Maybe I didn’t see the point,…
WILDWOOD BY THE SEA AND THE RIVER OF TIME
I was sitting on a bench on the Wildwood N.J. boardwalk, killing time with a brain-dead smart phone and a birch beer, waiting to…
WILDWOOD
Greed, revenge, old hatreds and a million-dollar payday draw a disparate and dangerous cast of con artists, dreamers and sociopaths to the wild carnival…
THE BLUE ROUTE
Pennsylvania, 1979. The costliest, most controversial highway project in state history becomes a magnet for protests, litigation, political corruption, bribery, blackmail…and murder. The lives,…