Sonny's Castle Dangerous

I promised myself I wouldn't post this on any social media, especially Facebook. It would only ignite a battle of duelling comments. I ...

by Ben Dolnick Pantheon Books, New York, 2018 Ebook ISBN 9781101871102 The Ghost Notebooks by Ben Dolnick My rating: 4 of 5 stars I ...

The characters in this novel are so unappealing that I nearly gave up on it a quarter of the way through. But then I read somewhere that it ...

Let me be quite clear about this: these are the reasons I deactivated my Facebook account.  I am troubled by Facebook's linkage, indir...

After watching the dreary Terminator: Genysis movie last night, I read a couple of articles (see links below) about the controversy surroun...

It’s always a mistake to write about your dreams. But as my readers (if there are any) know, I have never let that stop me in the past.   An...

A husband-and-wife metal detectorist team recently found nearly 60 Roman coins buried in a farmer’s field in Norfolk. Six of them are gold a...

I'm an occasional driver for Uber and Lyft. On a whim, I turned on the app yesterday while I was driving around doing errands. I had one...

This hoard of about 500 gold and sliver coins was d iscovered by waterworks employees during excavation work in Holland: 15TH CENTURY POT ...

This isn't in the same league as the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon , or the accursed  The King In Yellow. But at least it ...

Before senility robs me of these memories, I have assembled this list of lesser-known childrens' TV shows and short serials in the New ...

I want to be clear on this: I don't believe these things. But they are strange. Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and other public figures...

Now in display at Leeds City Museum, this hoard of copper coins lay buried in a Yorkshire field for over 1,600 years. Experts believe it may...

By Bob Tralins Belmont Books. 1967. Paper. “Ring-a-ding” was an expression popularized by Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack pals. How did...

by Thomas Blamer and Richard Shulman Wyndham Books, 1982; 206 pages ISBN 0-671-43224-9 When Dow 3,000 was published in 1982, it was...

Today is my 64th birthday. This has opened my eyes to many things.  I've come to the realization that 64 is a special number. A number g...

I noticed today that two female professors at the University of Rochester are among those named  “Person of Year: Silence Breakers” by Time ...

It's been a big week for those interested in buried treasure. The latest issue of Coin World magazine reports two significant finds. I...

A friend sent me this London newspaper poster recently.  It reminds me of the hawker who sold newspapers in the Baker Street Underground sta...

Thanksgiving is a time for happiness, and family, and togetherness. On this day we set aside our differences and share the blessings of good...