Abilene Texas
After Shreveport, LA, next stop Abilene Texas. Please keep in mind that Dad (that would be me) had root canal surgery done in Shreveport and was up most of the night freezing my jaw with ice and taking Tylenol. Jackie Read More …
Tag: #mystery
The Real Shreveport
Having read my father’s revisionist history of the offset of our trip around the country, I feel the need to set things straight. So, here’s what really happened, the real Shreveport. The summer after I graduated college, my father and Read More …
Shreveport, LA, Root Canal Central
Shreveport, LA comes to mind as the first truly memorable stop on our 7600 mile, 30-day road trip cross-country (the road trip on which we staged the plot for MURDER BY ROAD TRIP). As promised, Jackie and I will write Read More …
MURDER BY ROAD TRIP Pre-Launch
After a handful of delays (have you met 2020?), I’m launching my newest comedy murder mystery entitled MURDER BY ROAD TRIP on November 16, 2020 with my brilliant (she made me say that) co-author, my youngest daughter Jackie. How did I end up writing the Read More …
I Wrote a Book; You Gotta Be Nuts!
I retired from forty years working in the pharmaceutical industry and I wrote a book, to become a writer in retirement. I could have written scientific manuals for companies on how best to obtain a license for marketing their drug Read More …
MURDER BY ROAD TRIP Coming Soon (the Sequel to PLEASURIA: TAKE AS DIRECTED)
MURDER BY ROAD TRIP, the sequel to PLEASURIA: TAKE AS DIRECTED, is coming soon. I retired from a long and stressful career in the high pressure biotech and pharmaceutical industry five years ago and started my writing career with two serious Read More …
Memoires of an Average Athlete
I started out as a skinny kid growing up in small-town Indiana, and developed into an average athlete (not exactly the Larry Bird story). My sports career is not so much a career as a series of random frustrations. Fortunately, I Read More …
Powerlessness and Being a Good Father
I’m in my sixties, our three daughters are all grown up and I’m at that stage where I ask myself “was I a good father”? This is a complicated question, since there’s no official manual for raising children and no Read More …
I Discovered VR, Please Help Me!
I discovered VR, someone please help me! I’m now in my sixties, and a couple of months before this pandemic hit I bought an Oculus Quest. This has turned out to be one of the best, worst and strangest experiences Read More …
THE CRITTERS WERE THERE FIRST
The critters were already there when my wife and I built our house on Smith Mountain Lake in southern Virginia in 1992. Back then the lake was not so crowded, a true mountain lake. We were looking forward to living Read More …