The three Heene boys, including 6-year-old Ryo (confusing, as he is referred to in Falcon in at least one article), who was believed to have floated away in his family’s hot air balloon earlier today, appear in this rather odd rap-style home video with an unappealing title. The balloon has since come down, and the [...]
Crime novelist Lisa Reardon is in jail in Michigan for allegedly shooting her father. According to the Detroit Free Press:
Lisa Ann Reardon’s father is in stable condition today as she sits in the Washtenaw County Jail, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office. He fled inside the home in the 6300 block of Brand after [...]
I just heard the news that John Hughes has died. For those of us who came of age in the eighties, his name means more than the movies. It brings back a whole slew of memories: names of boys and girls we knew, and places they took us, and the things we did and didn’t [...]
I was at Walgreen’s yesterday when I overheard a man at the pharmacy counter asking for face masks. “This is our last box,” the pharmacist said. The man glanced around to see if anyone was looking. I swear he gave me the evil eye right before he snatched the box from the pharmacist’s hands and [...]
Sandra Cantu’s murder has tragically brought the plight of missing children into the spotlight once again. Although no Amber Alert was issued after Sandra’s disappearance, the Amber Alert is, in many cases, a very important part of the search for the child. The longer a child is missing, the less likely it is he or [...]
update, via KCRA3:
Police have not named any suspects in the case and Sgt. Tony Sheneman insisted Tuesday that Lawless “is not at the center of the investigation and never was.” He added that he was dismayed to hear media reports that the pastor was a main suspect.
“He has been interviewed as have hundreds of [...]
I’ll be speaking Saturday, March 28, at Lynnewood Methodist Church in Pleasanton. This will be a fundraising event, sponsored by P.E.O. International. Towne Center Books will be on hand to sell copies of The Year of Fog and No One You Know, with part of the proceeds to benefit P.E.O. women’s scholarships. 1:00 - 3:00.
Check out the latest in the land of Nutcracker Buck–”You and me and these five random cubes/Laughing off our asses while our lives go down the tubes.” Wade has this to say about the song: “The song is kind of a white trash love song and a prayer to the Yahtzee gods that a marriage [...]
I’ve just finished reading The Hemingses of Monticello, a fascinating look into the lives of the enslaved family so intimately connected with Thomas Jefferson. Annette Gordon-Reed does an excellent job resurrecting the history of an extensive family whose story has been buried for centuries under a version of history that champions the life and legacy [...]
The South China Morning Post included The Year of Fog in its year-end roundup of “ultimate recession-proof gifts:”
An unusually imaginative novel of family, loss and hope, The Year of Fog tackles mysteries of time, memory and the human heart. ~Stephen McCarty
Having spent a month in Hong Kong back in 1998, and having vivid memories of [...]
