I must have brought some good luck back from my Key West writers’ workshop. After having placed “One More Turn of the Tide” in late January, I have placed two pieces in February.

On February 12, HumorOutcasts posted my thoughts on my love/hate relationship with playing the piano, “Piano Lessons.”

And yesterday, February 20, Broad Street Review ran  my “paean to papers.” (An earlier version of this essay was published last November in our local weekly, the Swarthmorean…in print.)

P.S. One of my New Year’s resolutions — well, the only one, I think — is to be more orderly about managing this blog on my WordPress website. For 2018, I am going to post twice a month — the first Sunday of the month will be my “Month of Books” and the third Sunday of the month will be for announcements, like this one. (Yes, I have already missed my own “third Sunday” goal. As Geoffrey Rush says in Pirates of the Caribbean, these are just guidelines.)