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Was King’s I have a dream speech enough?
ON APRIL 3, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in the pulpit of Mason Temple…

Booklist: Pipe Dream is Powerful
PIPE DREAM, my first novel, came out of the pain of a real life struggle with addiction….

NPR features The Last Confession
WHEN NPR’s David Green traveled to Philadelphia to interview me for an international series called Crime In…

The road to hell is paved with apple fritters
Not only did the Amish women have sticky buns. They had chocolate-covered bacon, homemade ice cream and hand-rolled pretzels. They had a candy store, a petting zoo and carriage rides. But, beyond those wholesome attractions, they had the mother of all temptations: doughnuts.

After spaying, time to pick up Styx
It was May 2011, and my kids snookered me into breaking my no-pet rule to let them have tadpoles. For those who’ve never watched the Discovery Channel, tadpoles are baby frogs. They look like black sperm.

Welcome to the new Solomonjones.com
FOR MORE THAN 20 years, my family has been the inspiration behind my stories. But you’re the ones…

