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Can’t We All Just Dance?
My Tour of Turkey
The Moon Tavern Now On Sale
The Moon Tavern takes the reader on a romantic and culinary journey through the Islands of Croatia, where dark family secrets are revealed, quirky friends and relatives are found, and love is discovered.
A Vegas Shrimp Cocktail Tour
Stephanie and I just recently returned from an impromptu trip to Las Vegas.
A Croatian Misadventure
The novel I wrote with Stephanie will be coming out in late April.
Searching for Cecil. Where are You?
In the early winter of 1985, I was waiting on tables at the TGI Fridays on West Flamingo Road in Las Vegas.
The Moon Tavern
Soon to be Released
A Cathartic Wonderful Life
It wasn’t until I was fresh out of college and working in Manhattan that I saw the movie for the first time.
Introducing 'The Swede'
My Antagonist in Rough Diamonds, Loosely Based on Lurch
One From the Heart Revisited
I’m back in Sin City and just last night re-watched the movie One From the Heart. It’s nostalgic. I watched the film for the first time in 1983 when my father was slowly withering from lung cancer. At the time, I was both a waiter working weekends and a clerk at one of the very first video rental stores in the Twin Cities. This was before Blockbuster, a time when VHS and Betamax were duking it…