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Mad Road Trip Book free July 18-22

Need an escape from intense news? Seeking more insight on places to visit that may be closer than you think? The updated 2024 version of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Trip will be available on the Amazon Kindle free from July 18 through July 22. This one includes many more details on attractions in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico, factoids, travel tips, and more. A Goodreads list recently had…

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Humorous travel memoir continues to expand horizons

A humorous travel memoir about the longest two-week United States cross-country road trip in history has continued to expand its horizons, beefing up to 262 pages from 232 a year ago and 160 pages a decade ago. The additions include best value and most expensive popular vacation destinations for 2024, information on attractions in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico, more fairly obscure trivia,…

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Travel memoir on longest two-week road trip in history expanded to North America

A travel memoir about the longest two-week United States cross-country road trip in history has been updated to include North American attractions and trivia. So now you can discuss important matters like the highest mountains, tallest trees, deepest lakes, most popular beaches, threatening volcanoes, and dangerous parks in North America while driving in your vehicles and trying to figure out…

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Mad Trip humorous travel book hits Amazon bestseller list

Mad Trip humorous travel book hits Amazon bestseller list

An updated version of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Trip: On the Road of the Longest Two-Week Family Road Trip in History hit the Amazon bestseller list in the Auto and RV Travel category, reaching as high as 31st in early August 2022. The bestselling 100 books in a category are listed on Amazon’s site. The book covers a 17-day adventurous road trip across the United States and back in an aging…

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Documents confirm arrest of suspect in plot to kill JFK in Chicago three weeks before Dallas

Documents confirm arrest of suspect in plot to kill JFK in Chicago three weeks before Dallas

A letter written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1968 confirms that another suspect in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy was arrested in Chicago three weeks before the killing in Dallas, documents released by the National Archives show. The letter signed by Hoover includes a typewritten note by someone with the FBI at the bottom that referred to how former Marine and John Birch…

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How to discover if your books are in libraries, bookstores

How to discover if your books are in libraries, bookstores

If you have written a book, you probably want it to get into a bookstore to be sold. But getting it into a library might be more important since it will likely be there much longer. How can you tell if your book is in a library? One way is to do a search on your name at WorldCat here. The online resource tracks catalogs of libraries worldwide. I was slightly amazed to discover some of my books…

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My kids publish children's book on a rainbow-colored zebra

My kids publish children’s book on a rainbow-colored zebra

I may be too close to review this book, but it is a children’s book written by my kids when they were 5 and 8.

We finally decided to do something with it after years of working on other things. Rainbow Zebra: A Children’s Book Written & Illustrated by Childrenis a story with a timeless moral that extends beyond the authors’ years. And the drawings are good, especially of the zebras playing…

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JFK assassination,civil rights history books 99 cents Feb. 19-26

JFK assassination,civil rights history books 99 cents Feb. 19-26

A lot of people want an easy answer to the question of who really killed John F. Kennedy. The truth, of course, is usually more complex than we want it to be.

But if you want to find some good clues, read all you can on Allen Dulles, the former CIA director who JFK fired after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Some believe Dulles led the plot against JFK.

Details on who else could have been involved are…

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Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Sinclair among top five people born in Baltimore

Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, Sinclair among top five people born in Baltimore

Top Five People Born in Baltimore:

* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is credited with leading the charge to stop the 35-day federal shutdown and stand up to the guy in the White House.

* The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who didn’t just decide important cases but successfully argued those like Brown v. Board of Education.

* The late writer and journalist Upton Sinclair Jr., whose…

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The Random Baseball Effect

Baseball can be an intriguing metaphor for life. Most go to a game to enjoy themselves. Some leave with their lives never the same again.

One of the real cardinal sins of attending a baseball game is to pull a Steve Bartman and interfere with a ball that your home team’s fielder could have caught if you were able to somehow focus on both the ball and the fielder coming at you. Or interfere with a…

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Will Republican's insensitive videos backfire in Maryland governor's race?

Will Republican’s insensitive videos backfire in Maryland governor’s race?

In the race for Maryland governor, Republican incumbent Larry Hogan Jr. holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Ben Jealous in most polls, despite Maryland being a state where Democratic registered voters outnumber Republicans by a two-to-one margin.

But a move that could backfire for the Hogan campaign and make the race closer is releasing videos that seem to make fun of Jealous’ speech…

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Kavanaugh likely to be confirmed; What fresh hell lies ahead? I hate to say it, but Brett "I Like Beer" Kavanaugh will likely be confirmed to the Supreme Court.

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D.C. rockets to top of happiest fan bases for major sports

D.C. rockets to top of happiest fan bases for major sports

Updated Oct. 2, 2018

When the Cleveland Cavaliers shucked more than five decades of major pro sports failure by winning the 2016 NBA championship, you could feel the burden lifting in that city from hundreds of miles away. Ditto with Washington, D.C., when the Capitals took the 2018 Stanley Cup title. (more…)

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My battle against Big Water

My battle against Big Water

Until the last two years, my personal experience with water and sewer bills has been fairly noncontroversial. I’ve gone to small court over other issues, like parking tickets and red-light camera summonses. I’ve filed complaints with state attorneys general and the Better Business Bureau over a perceived overcharge in auto repairs, mortgage fees, and other services. (Filing with the state agency…

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My first time in New York's Times Square as the ball drops, Jan. 1, 2014.