Retired, multi-careered and currently residing near the Columbia River Gorge, where hiking, eagle watching and photography reign supreme. Writing something that paid tribute to Richard Brautigan was something I wanted to do for almost thirty years but life just stayed busy. The book about my time in the Marines was encouraged by several friends. It was a good time, it was a not-so-good time - it was the Marines!!! "Tommy" was just something in me that had to come out. Most recently, "Native Homeland" is finally completed. A fictional western that was born back in the 1950s from watching too many western movies at the Saturday matinees. It was a fun, but difficult, book to write. "Terminal Mortality" was another novel born inside the mind. I learned basic rock climbing in the military and grew to love mountaineering over time. Combining those elements into the medical/spiritual question of coming back to life after dying with someone else's abilities - a sequel could be coming.
