by Shelly Reuben on July 5th

On this hot summer afternoon, when I should be doing somersaults in a swimming pool, eating picnic potato salad, and ..

by Shelly Reuben on June 7th

The 9/11 Memorial is sad. It is solemn. It is beautiful, perhaps in the way that dark clouds on a ..

by Shelly Reuben on May 3rd

When I first heard the name Lester Atwell, I was sure I knew it from somewhere, and that he had ..

by Shelly Reuben on April 5th

I am a writer. That is what I am. That is what I do. If an examination were performed on my ..

by Shelly Reuben on March 1st

Last week, I was driving in the rain from Oregon into Washington State along a road that I’ll call the ..

by Shelly Reuben on February 2nd

When I titled this column, I considered employing a more sophisticated word than “used” to describe the dear, dusty, musty ..

by Shelly Reuben on January 12th

Peter Lovesey, British crime novelist and winner of every writing award imaginable, has created an exceptional namesake in the character ..

by Shelly Reuben on December 1st

So there I was, sitting at home on my computer, minding my own business, when I got a terse email ..

by Shelly Reuben on November 3rd

My sister just called to remind me that “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” is ..

by Shelly Reuben on September 29th

GHITA REUBEN OLIT George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937. He was a handsome, brilliant, charismatic composer who wrote everything from ..