To celebrate the full swing of summer, this month's Books Inc. newsletter features a cocktail that goes down easy on a hot, July da...

Want to know how to tell that you're not at San Francisco International Airport and are instead in the George Bush Airport in Houston, T...

Last night.  We're getting ready for our vacation, but with time slipping away, we - Karen and I - we take the easy way out and decide o...

With June's cocktail, the name came first. I wanted to call it the Demented Harold, after one of the many colorful characters found ...

Real Writers Have Day Jobs.  That's a bumper sticker, right?  Or it should be. Of course, many real writers have day jobs like, oh, I...

My friends are tired of my complaints - tired of hearing that even though I went to my first Major League baseball game in 1971 and have go...

We've talked, you and I, about California Bookstore Day.  You can read about that here .  To recap - it's happening statewide thi...