Maria, Ben and Javy graduate from the University of Arizona together. Maria has dated both but marries Ben. Ben and Javy become deputies in Cochise, a county bordering Mexico where drug and people smugglers are as thick as cacti, dangerous as rattlesnakes, and dead bodies appear daily as migrants die crossing the desert to enter the United States illegally. Ben is elected sheriff, names Javy chief deputy. Ben and Maria have three children. Javy marries a barrel racer and fathers a child. Loses wife to cancer. The three join forces with governor, a U.S. Senator, two members of the House of...

Paul Sebastian has spent fifteen years in a retirement community. The poems emphasize the fact that retirement should not be something to dread but a time when one will have the time to do all those interesting things that work and schedules previously prevented. "Before I Die" reveals the reality of the golden years.

Maria, Ben and Javy graduate from the University of Arizona together. Maria has dated both but marries Ben. Ben and Javy become deputies in Cochise, a county bordering Mexico where drug and people smugglers are as thick as cacti, dangerous as rattlesnakes, and dead bodies appear daily as migrants die crossing the desert to enter the United States illegally. Ben is elected sheriff, names Javy chief deputy. Ben and Maria have three children. Javy marries a barrel racer and fathers a child. Loses wife to cancer. The three join forces with governor, a U.S. Senator, two members of the House of...