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  Trust but Verify Blog May 2025   Summertime, and the living is easy…, so says Ella Fitzgerald. With one glance around, I agree with her. My summertime is a smooth ride: kids and grandkids are flying high; school is winding down; our eldest, Emily, is home from a semester in Rome; Gwen and I are enjoying the fruits of our labors of over fifty years of policing for me, and teaching for Gwen. These years have been the cherry on top of the dessert. It is the pleasure we enjoy with our little road trips to the small towns of West Texas and throughout the USA and Israel. Our book signing ventures have ranged from the steps of the LBJ Library in Austin to the historical plaza at the San Albino Cathedral in Mesilla, New Mexico; to the vast open agricultural fields of Dimmitt, Texas, on to the bookstores of Canyon and Plainview; and eastward to the canyons of New York City and the NYPD First Precinct, the home of the World Trade Center. And last, but certainly not least, to T...
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  Blog March 2025 It Is Not The Ides of March Historians tell us that “The Ides of March” is generally accepted to be March 15th, the Roman calendar day on which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death. My “Ides of March” did not exactly fall on the 15th. However, by that date, I was resigned to the cold, hard facts of the Los Angeles fires. Specifically, the Palisades Fire struck me like a bolt of lightning.  My movie endeavors began at a private party on Mulholland Drive, at a home later to be decimated by the fire. That house, and hundreds of others, put the movie production business in a tailspin. The recovery has been slow but steady. “Color of the Prism” is now moving forward with a target date moved back to late 2025.  Nevertheless, a recent trip to Tucson offered an opportunity to visit many of the actual sites from my experiences that have been fictionalized in my books, and soon, the movies, “Color of the Prism” and “The Russian: The Roadhouse where the assassins par...
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What a Wild Start

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 Trust but Verify  January 2025 What a Wild Start         Following a difficult 2024 with a bout of COVID and pneumonia, the new year has taken on a new but extremely challenging set of obstacles. Whether an act of nature or the hand of an evil culprit, the California fires are the worst in that state’s history! From my end, it is full speed ahead, but the Hollywood side of this project is on a slow but very steady move forward. While the movie sites are untouched, everyone and everything else is heavily impacted.  Some of the people involved have lost their homes; others have taken leave to help their extended family, friends, and neighbors recover from the devastation—mostly from the Palisades fire. For those not directly involved in the destruction, many have been impacted by the air pollution slowing down or bringing to a halt normal activity, and even more so with those suffering from respiratory issues.  From the home front, I am assured by ...
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