the autobiography of Bill Holmes

the complete blog of the Russian adoption experience of Bill and Tara Holmes

Before ever winning the lottery and running for president, Benny was living in L.A. making a living as a temp word... More > processor. For his latest assignment, he thought he was taking just another temp job. He didn't anticipate Venelia and the Dynamos. What the hell's a Dynamo? < Less

For most people, winning $296 million in the lottery would be enough. They would buy a big house, travel the world and... More > retire. Not Benny. The house he had in mind was the White House. He didn't want to travel the world so much as save it ... from politicians. Retire? "I'll retire when I'm dead!" he would say. He didn't realize so many people had a retirement plan in mind that would make him very dead. Welcome to the world of politics, Benny. < Less

Dark comedy/adventure.
A man and woman -- both victims of circumstance, but from two very different worlds -- collide in a... More > globe-trotting struggle to find some semblance of sanity. A beautiful young “black ops” agent on her first assignment tries to turn an “average Joe” into her own counter-terrorism asset, just to prove she can.
When he loses his job, then his girlfriend thanks to her, she thinks he’s putty in her hands. When he’s told he has cancer and decides to go out with a bang, she’s afraid she’s overplayed her hand.
She commits the cardinal sin of actually starting to like this guy, and now questions her own motives. If her handlers become aware of this, both she and her “asset” are dead. < Less