“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…” Mark Twain Ever pondered your passions? For me, this can be one of those big, philosophical life questions that keeps me up at night. We hear the question “what’s your passion?” all the time, like a broken record. Of course, some folks love to debate this topic. They just can’t see a path to happiness, I say. So, here’s my tale: Some time ago, I hung up my hat as a Project Manager in the renewable energy sector. Imagine an engineer who, instead of playing with gadgets and gizmos, orchestrated power plant retrofitting projects. The job required an unnerving amount of writing;…

Would you like an update on the progress of my current project, Camino Child? Wonderful!  The stories premise: Mystery pulls teenager Summer Darling to Spain to trek an ancient pilgrimage; then tragedy strikes, leaving the American alone to seek her family’s buried past. Let’s get to the update in a moment. I’d like to make some introductions first. In this new novel and its related novellas, there are three main characters, all females. There’s Summer, the eventual Camino Child. There is Grandma Pat, which we see a lot of in Summer’s characteristics. And there is Great Aunt Georgia.  Georgia is like that aunt they loved and aspired to be when the ladies among us…

Once my new author website is complete, I’ll be posting snippets of my latest book and telling you the story behind the story. Events in life become good foundations for fiction. I would love your thoughts on the fictional results as they come out.