Dirty Little Deeds in Love and Marriage tells the story of the narrator’s ill-fated relationship with Sahar, a Persian expatriate who fled the hostility of Iran with her husband, daughter and the dreams of a new life in America. Single and 26...

The expression of innovative women in acoustic and electric Blues music is both vital and far-reaching. From the beginning, remarkable female artists have helped shape popular music with important Blues contributions. As a result, their legacy sho...

From the time the first “Diddley Bo” appeared on a wooden barnyard wall,countless great sounding Blues songs, acoustic and electric, have been written and recorded by many talented artists. These ten legendary songs, among them “Bo...

Until that Saturday morning, the legend of the Sapphocans had been a mystical notion confined to the paranormal ramblings of one or two eccentric science teachers at St. Abernathy’s High School. Had Aunt Peggy’s violent rant,“Iâ€�...

Loyalty, Love and My Thirty Year Passage tells the story of an 11 year old boy’s most memorable summer, a time when his father put a child’s dream above easy money. Young Paul has his eye on the local grocery store’s raffle prize â...

The sadistic scene in the kitchen had been horrible enough, but it was Dad's lingo that remained fixed in his memory. When his father yelled “you friggin’ vampire” and “go back to the cave you crawled out from” Paulieâ€�...

In this final installment of the Sapphocan trilogy, Aunt Theresa emerges as another of the family’s ghoulish matriarchs with a special craving for physical harm, mayhem and fresh meat. As she approaches daughter Carmela with a steaming hot ir...