Lou Aronica

Several years ago, with a landmark birthday pending, I decided that I would record an album of autobiographical songs to mark the...

Yesterday, we helped our youngest child move in to her freshman dorm. This ended a streak of nearly thirty-five years of having at least...

Something came up recently that has had me thinking a great deal about memory. What does it mean to be memorable? How do you sustain...

H.L. Mencken is often quoted as saying, “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” In reality,...

I’ve always been inordinately fascinated with the endings of stories. To me, well-told endings are all about life affirmation. They tell...

This conversation has come up in our household several times over the years, and it did again during dinner with friends Saturday night:...

I’m a guy and I write love stories. As it turns out, not all that many other guys do this. Some romance writers with female names are...

In one way or another, I’d been planning to be a writer from the time I was a teenager. When I graduated college, though, I needed a job...

Writing fiction is a form of wish fulfillment. Writing is such an immersive process that one of the byproducts is that the writer is...

My novel The Journey Home has multiple inspirations. The strongest of these was the romance between my mother and father that lasted more...