They started as simple trails and used by the Native Americans as trading and migration routes. The paths were the lifelines of a people who traveled long distances on their feet. Later, rough roads followed along these traces. Horses, wagons and supplies helped carry the settlers westward toward the open lands of the mid-west and onto California. Today, with the abundance of cars, the interstates, highways and byways are still the tracks over which millions of travelers continue to roam.
Every farm road, mountain pass, and motel-lined state roadway, like the classic American highway, Route 66, has an abundance of countless legends and storied journeys.
This volume is a modern road saga. The author and his wife buy a small RV trailer and set out to cross the country to visit their grandson. Along the way, blogs substitute for postcards and letters to friends.
As the journey unfolds, the couple finds new friends and old family. They see the nation was it should be seen, from behind a steering wheel, with one eye on the road and the other on the lookout for the next gas station.
[Published April 4, 2014]
Every farm road, mountain pass, and motel-lined state roadway, like the classic American highway, Route 66, has an abundance of countless legends and storied journeys.
This volume is a modern road saga. The author and his wife buy a small RV trailer and set out to cross the country to visit their grandson. Along the way, blogs substitute for postcards and letters to friends.
As the journey unfolds, the couple finds new friends and old family. They see the nation was it should be seen, from behind a steering wheel, with one eye on the road and the other on the lookout for the next gas station.
[Published April 4, 2014]
Collection of Short Stories
This is a collection of seventeen short stories. Some of them are true. In these pages, you will meet with departed brothers, broken hearts, watchful gnomes, worried sheep, forest nymphs, seductive sinners and hopeful saints. Travel to an ancient Celtic hilltop, get lost on an Alaskan glacier or lose your way in the Northern Forest…at night. You may even find yourself in a tavern alongside a haunted hillside road, dropping quarters into a jukebox and waiting for Patsy Cline to sing away your blues, your fears and maybe even everything else you have in life.
[Published April 25, 2013]
Historical Fiction
It was 1793. The city of Paris had moved toward a Reign of Terror. Executions of the Royalists were every day events. Confusion and fear was widespread among those of the “higher” classes.
A small group of French emerges came to America and settled in this new nation of liberty. In Philadelphia, one such group found themselves facing yet a new killer, cholera.
Many in this band headed for a new town built for them in the wilderness of northern Pennsylvania. It was called Azylum. Here they began to carve out a new existence for themselves.
Alain, a boy of twelve helped his mother operate an inn. His father, for reasons yet unknown, had stayed behind in France.
While Alain waits in vain for his father’s arrival, a mysterious stranger from France appears at Azylum. Alain falls under his spell and soon sets off on what Alain thinks is to be a great adventure. In reality he has been unwittingly drawn into a sinister plot that may alter the future of France.
Alain’s story is one of emotional growth, a sense of connection with those people that were not “high born”, first love and learning the true fate of his father.
[Published March 9, 2012, Kindle - March 13, 2012]
A small group of French emerges came to America and settled in this new nation of liberty. In Philadelphia, one such group found themselves facing yet a new killer, cholera.
Many in this band headed for a new town built for them in the wilderness of northern Pennsylvania. It was called Azylum. Here they began to carve out a new existence for themselves.
Alain, a boy of twelve helped his mother operate an inn. His father, for reasons yet unknown, had stayed behind in France.
While Alain waits in vain for his father’s arrival, a mysterious stranger from France appears at Azylum. Alain falls under his spell and soon sets off on what Alain thinks is to be a great adventure. In reality he has been unwittingly drawn into a sinister plot that may alter the future of France.
Alain’s story is one of emotional growth, a sense of connection with those people that were not “high born”, first love and learning the true fate of his father.
[Published March 9, 2012, Kindle - March 13, 2012]
A Memoir
A good educator is constantly encouraging his or her students to ask questions and challenge the nature of truth.
A schoolteacher from Pennsylvania begins to question his relevancy. Soon, these self-doubts begin to darken his thoughts regarding his personal choices, career decisions and life in general. He relocates to New England, hoping for a fresh start, but these shadows follow him.
Amidst this backdrop of increasing despair, he stumbles upon an opportunity to take part in an educator exchange program.
The teacher sets off for Dorset in southern England. Immersing himself in the culture, landscape and history of Thomas Hardy country, he begins a journey of adventure, discovery and love.
This memoir tells the real story of a real teacher and the many forms redemption can take.
[Published January 18, 2013]
A schoolteacher from Pennsylvania begins to question his relevancy. Soon, these self-doubts begin to darken his thoughts regarding his personal choices, career decisions and life in general. He relocates to New England, hoping for a fresh start, but these shadows follow him.
Amidst this backdrop of increasing despair, he stumbles upon an opportunity to take part in an educator exchange program.
The teacher sets off for Dorset in southern England. Immersing himself in the culture, landscape and history of Thomas Hardy country, he begins a journey of adventure, discovery and love.
This memoir tells the real story of a real teacher and the many forms redemption can take.
[Published January 18, 2013]