Author Archive

NBC’s House of Mystery Radio Interview

Just a taste…a short interview with Book Smart

Strike for Survival, Earth Day 2023

Well, you heard it in this little obscure corner of the world for the first time:  Call for Worldwide General Strike on Earth Day April 22, 2023. #StrikeForSurvival #EarthDay2023

“On Lonesome Roads” Receives Glowing Review from Kirkus Reviews

In this third installment of a mystery series, a private eye takes on another dangerous case. After battling drug-smuggling operations and Mafia kingpins, the Vietnam veteran–turned–divorced gumshoe Peter O’Keefe returns to fight for his personal safety. Novelist and litigator Flanigan’s...

Mike Harrigan and Peter O’Keefe in “The New Yorker??”

So many words, so many words repeated so many times…

I am praying that somehow I never have to again hear the word “Bitcoin” or any form or use of the word “Crypt” unless it is in connection with a burial site.  “Blockchain” is okay—for now.

Michael Myers Rises Again.

Game Changer. I thought it was dead but saw it again this morning. Michael Myers rises again.

Journey this…

It was way back in the late 1980s when I heard “Life’s a journey, not a destination.” I thought that was quite profound at the time but in the ensuing years the very concept of “journey” has come to make...

Hot Dogs

I just read on my office elevator news screen that Americans will, between Memorial Day and Labor Day, eat 7 Billion hot dogs. That is astounding, on several levels. Seven. Billion. Hot Dogs. 

FOREVER.

I thought nothing was forever. Now  I observe that every “change,” especially change due to the pandemic, is “forever.” Everything is going to “change our lives forever.”  In fact, it’s hard nowadays to find a sentence announcing any kind of...