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This link is a good one to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=John%20Bolinger&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AJohn%20Bolinger I’ve already given the link to Barnes & Noble. Happy reading!  JB

     In my little library hangs a portrait from about the year 1840 of a man and his child. That child is the man’s son, which surprises many viewers, who are thrown off track by the fact that the little … Continue reading →

I realize that not everyone has or even wants a Kindle reading device from Amazon. All my books are available as paperbacks too from Amazon. Here is a link to the paperback at Barnes & Noble for Mum’s the Word: Secrets of … Continue reading →

     There have been no new posts for a while on my blog, because I’ve been working on two books, which I have just finished editing and submitting for publication.      The first is an anthology of my essays, poems, … Continue reading →

Use Pylorexene with caution.  Side effects may include nausea, internal bleeding, blindness, stroke, desire to commit suicide or murder, uncontrollable urges to stick your finger into an electric light socket, to pee on a neighbor’s new car, or to shoplift … Continue reading →

This is from my book, Mum’s the Word, Secrets of a Family.  It is the story of a family trying to hide the fact that the father is a raging alcoholic.  There is pathos but also humor throughout the book, which … Continue reading →

We live in a nation that has a terrible phobia of aging.  Our youth-centered values saturate the media on everything from cars to clothing and entertainment.  Since the 1920’s, “the age of gin and flappers,” we have increasingly shunned the … Continue reading →

From December 6, 2012 until April 27, 2013, I was living in the beautiful Pompano Beach condo that belongs to my partner Jim and me. Jim needs to work two more years before his retirement, so our cat Riggs lives … Continue reading →

I live in a little gated community of condominiums on a small lake in Pompano Beach, Florida.  I like my neighbors, but I’m having a problem with one of them, a seventy-five-year-old woman named Molly, who uses a walker to … Continue reading →

Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Ruler of North Korea, may or may not be simply a figurehead controlled from behind the scenes by his puppet master aunts,  uncles, and the military generals, but he reminds me of one of those frogs … Continue reading →