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I have shared this post in a few other places, so I wanted to let my blog-reading friends know as well: ***   “Life is what happens to you w...

  One of the most perplexing questions that people ask me is "Are you retired?" My immediate reaction is to say "yes" be...

Okay, if you're not involved in the world of comic book retailing, this may be a "deep in the woods" conversation that holds n...

 Last night, I wrapped up the first draft of an all-ages manuscript with the working title of  Anna . It's not ready to publish yet—for ...

Anyone who knows me is aware how much I love music. All my life, I have strived to acquire the best-quality recordings of my favorite artist...

There are some people who will always have a home on the shelves at Dr. No's Comics & Games SuperStore. These are creators who play ...

  My first personal contact with anyone at Marvel Comics was with Flo Steinberg. My parents had reached out to Marvel on my behalf in 1964 i...

Our lives changed in so very many ways once we moved to Marietta. You wouldn't think a move would make so much difference, but it did. C...

Soon after Susan died in 2019, I began a still-ongoing process of evaluating my life to determine what I possessed and what possessed me, so...

  Seventy years old.   It surprises me, to be honest. Mom didn’t make it to seventy. Neither did Susan, nor my cousins Frank and Karen, nor ...