My latest book, “Trapped in Pairadice,” is now available! It addresses gambling addiction, revealing the variety of techniques used by the online gambling industry to draw people in to gambling sites and keep them there. It is part psychological thriller and part Exposé. I wrote it to bring attention to a problem that is often overshadowed by conversations about more …
If you haven’t thought about how dependent we have become on technology, you may be in for a rude awakening. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, we were already deeply mired in this dependence, but consider how much more we rely on technology today. “Zoom” wasn’t even in our vocabulary two years ago and now many of us embrace it as …
Click here to read a review by Kirkus and an interview about how this book came to be. The book is featured in Kirkus Magazine as one of “20 Great Indie Books Worth Discovering!”
If you’ve been following recent science news, you may have noticed several articles about the movement of Earth’s magnetic poles. Could it happen? Is it possible magnetic north and south could switch places? Indeed, it has happened hundreds of times during our planet’s history, and each time, the effects have been catastrophic. A stable magnetic field is necessary for our …
If you think it can’t happen here in the U.S., guess again. Consider how much what we take for granted. Clean water, clean air, electricity, a reliable communications network…. The list goes on and on, but you get the point. We are vulnerable. If you are reading this post, you are likely a somewhat prosperous person. You own a computer, …
The world is crazy right now. We’re in the midst of a pandemic, the country is divided politically, our democracy is endangered and race relations are as strained as ever. What else could possibly happen in 2020? How about a solar flare? If you haven’t read my book, “When North Becomes South,” now might be a good time… (or not). …
Last week I read an NBC News article about happiness. According to the 2020 World Happiness Report (which really is a thing), Americans are less happy now than they’ve ever been. We have a crisis of “happiness inequality” which occurs in societies with sizeable income gaps and a divided class system. This inequality has led to a reduction in average …
My mother passed away last fall, just short of her 91st birthday. Ten years prior, when she was in her early 80’s, she wrote about her childhood. About five years after that, in her mid-80’s, she moved to an Assisted Living Facility and wrote some more – this time about what it was like to be living in a place …
Welcome to my blog site! I intend to post weekly about my current writing, however, since this site is new and I have several books published, I want to introduce readers to my completed projects in short blogs. Today I’m featuring the book that I co-authored with my sister, Phyllis Bronson: Moods, Emotions and Aging: Hormones and the Mind-body Connection. …
(originally posted 11/10/2017) My beautiful mom passed away last week just two days shy of her 91st birthday. I am sad and miss her, yet at the same time feel surprisingly full. I am overwhelmed by the support I have gotten from friends and extended family and filled with gratitude to my mom for the gifts she gave me. For …
