Michael Padnos
Michael Padnos

Michael Padnos is the author of 4 books, including MY Wild Ride: Through Real Estate in Pursuit of the American Dream and Stroke! How I Got Hit, How I Got Well. In addition to writing,  he enjoys photography  and gardening (on his boat!) You can sign up to get updates about his writing here.

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MY Wild Ride: Through Real Estate in Pursuit of the American Dream

This is a true story, with several names changed, of a little guy who tried to Get Rich Quick in the heady days of The Massachusetts Miracle, one of the most spectacular and destructive real estate bubbles of the 20th Century. The Miracle was so spectacular that it propelled Massachusetts’ then-Governor Mike Dukakis to the 1988 Democratic...

Abigail After

Peter Rizzo, a recently-divorced Boston attorney, was in his early fifties when he met Abigail Palmer, a nice lady about his age with a luminous smile and a warm and welcoming personality. The couple soon began an effervescent love affair that seemed destined to last forever: they moved to France, they bought a sensational house-with-a-pool in...

Modern Times: A Cro-Magnon Artist and the Creation of a Masterpiece

This novella tells the imagined story of the Cro-Magnon artist who lived more than 15,000 years ago and created a brilliant cave painting in Rouffignac, a cave not far from the more famous cave of Lascaux in the South of France, .
Historians know that the pre-historic people who lived in this region were members of the species homo sapiens and...