It's been raining again. Endlessly. It's a warm rain, but it has the capacity to soak you, so the outside tables are abandoned and everybody is inside where it's more cheerful. .

Gene Mirabelli, who writes most of the posts here, has published another novel, Renato, the Painter, about which Publishers Weekly says "In prose as lusty and vigorous as Renato himself, Mirabelli captures the feeling of coming to terms - ready or not - with old age." The author doesn't know why the reviewer thinks a 70-year-old protagonist is old. Of course, the author himself is in his 80s, and that may explain a few things. If you want to know more about the writer or his book, and we hope you do, please turn to the contact page. Bless you!