Carl Vonderau
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I Got Scammed Too – by Carl Vonderau. Scammers play with your doubts and use your best intentions. I learned that in a movie written by David Mamet called “House of Games.” In that film a psychiatrist helps a compulsive gambler, and is led into a world of scams. I was working with a Canadian […]
Gina Champion-Cain is in the News Again – by Carl Vonderau. You remember her, don’t you? Gina Champion-Cain was convicted of a massive fraud in San Diego that stole from 300 investors—many of them longtime friends. Before she was arrested she was on the cover of magazines, served on influential boards, and involved in all […]
Scammers Want to Know if You are Paying People by Check – by Carl Vonderau. Are you paying with checks? I still do because I like the physical record. Or maybe you’re sending checks to your kids at Christmas. Watch out! Scammers steal the checks, alter them and deposit the checks with new amounts. Then […]
I recently attended a Novel Intensive Workshop in Jonesborough, Tennessee, the oldest town in the state. Jonesboro has a home were U.S. President Andrew Jackson lived. The building we were in was built in 1797. While there, I received a certificate from Steven James and Robert Dugoni for War and Peace because I’m writing a […]
Partners in Crime, the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime, welcomes you to a discussion with William Kent Krueger and Carl Vonderau about Krueger’s writing as well as his latest novel, Spirit Crossing. It will be a virtual event on Saturday, December 7, at 2:00 p.m., Pacific Time. Krueger writes a mystery series set […]
Are doctors the answer? – by Carl Vonderau. All the consternation over RFK Junior and his skepticism about vaccines is strange to me. I was raised a Christian Scientist, a religion in which adherents are supposed to be able to heal any illness by correctly reflecting God. In its most fundamental form, the faithful are […]
What Your Banker Thinks When You Want to Start a Business – Carl Vonderau. You’ve got this great idea, or you need to expand your small business to the next level. All you want is some financing to seed your growth. So you go into talk to your boring banker. She loves the idea, but […]
After eleventh grade I spent a summer living in Japan through the American Field Service (AFS) program. The family I stayed with was very wealthy and lived in a large house in a rich enclave. They had something that almost no one else did in a place where land was so valuable—a yard. The father […]
When I graduated from high school I worked for a summer with the YMCA in Bogotá, Colombia. William Arrango, then a young YMCA staff person, picked me up from the Bogotá airport. That night, on the way to Camp Bochica, we drove through the gritty streets of Bogota. Along the way, I saw police chase […]