Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Sadly, the immortal Jackie Milburn died recently

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Being in Hawaii, it's almost impossible not to be fit, I think.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct, all artifice.

Music is the great connector.

Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.