This little volume (193 pages) is a collection of personal essays, observations and verses extracted from memoirs written over the past dozen and a half years. Quite a number of the essays from the basic work have been printed in the Wolf Moon Journal. A handful of the shorter pieces have appeared in the Lewistown Sentinel. It is hoped that among the present assortment people who have enjoyed any of the previous books will find a few more pieces to entertain them.

Don't Send Me Roses is a collection of poems, some formal, some free, which follow a relationship from its giddy, embryonic beginning through what we often call the honeymoon period. Then they proceed into more exacting challenges as everyday reality intrudes. The emotional implications of such a voyage are easily seen in their entirety. This poetry might seem somewhat demanding for those uninitiated in the ways of the heart, but is decidedly appropriate for the brave and hopeful. The reader is left with a sense of guarded optimism, along with the poet's audacious reminder about the...

Michael is almost eight years old and the middle child of a struggling Tennessee family. At play he is often a pirate, imagining ferocious fights and feats of derring-do. He also has an unusually strong serious side and spends a lot of his time trying to figure out how to ease his mother's burden. The mixture of his vivid imagination and intense wish to help his family draw him into an adventure which surprises not only him, but his mom and two sisters as well.

Taking Off is mostly about awareness, anticipation, judgment and clarity. It's therefore also about growth, taking risks, sizing up challenges and moving ahead with what sometimes seems impossible. This makes the story at least a brush with love. Maybe not as close a brush as some would like, but I know my limitations. We make mistakes in life, sometimes big ones. We also occasionally manage to dodge the worst consequences of some of them and find ourselves whispering a private prayer to our invisible copilot. Once in a while those people whose lives we touch aren't quite as fortunate and we...

This book is an adaptation for the stage of the children's novel by the same title.

Frank Roberts and his son move to northern Maine, fresh out of a failed marriage. Having just earned a Ph.D., Frank takes a position in teaching and counseling at a small college undergoing explosive growth due to recent legislation making it part of a super-university. The rapidly expanding mix of new personalities, not all of them healthy enough for a university campus, creates an unexpected collegial challenge. Frank is a student too, having to learn about single parenting through the trial and error experience of juggling rotating custody of his son and daughter-Sally is in the Midwest,...