RandyDandy, an American Expat in London

I finished reading Richard Russo’s well-structured and brilliantly funny novel “Straight Man” a few days ago. My friend Mitzi Scott gifted the book to me a little over a year ago as we were browsing through a mammoth “Half Price Books” store in north Dallas, and it took me far too long to crack it [...]

You’re staying on the 7th floor of an island condominium overlooking the beach. A hurricane is coming ashore. What do you do? Go onto the balcony?
“A 17-year-old boy was seriously injured on South Padre Island after he was blown from a seventh-floor balcony of the Lighthouse Condominiums . . .”
The government spokesman says this kid [...]