From Cross Hill: Views of My Cuba by Richard Marvin Grove is a travel memoir in prose and poetry. This book includes social commentary on Cuba in the form of letters home, metaphors and true life stories: Blue Cattle Green Cattle - p. 27, - Being in the Garden - p. 35, - Companeros - p. 38, - The Frozen Bus Ride From Havana 2006 - p. 41. Some of the travel memoir is in the form of poems: - Blown By the Breeze of Hope - p. 5, - The Phantom Hand - p. 12, - Birds of Different Varieties - p. 16, - Untethered Demise - p. 23, - From the Top of Cross Hill - p. 24, - The Diaz Garden - p. 31, -...

What is this book about: This collection of short stories is sometimes a bit dark in nature. Unlike Grove's previous collection of light and fun short stories under the title of "The Family Reunion" these are more about the consternations of life; the troubles of a life long dream burning to the ground, a boyhood character coming to terms with forgiveness and the psycho babble of Will Farnaby and his aquarium life. These stories are bout the cycles of life, challenges and growth. Psycho Babble and the Consternations of Life was born, primarily, out of three stories; The Consternations of Will...

What a pleasure it has been to visit Camp Madawaska, on Victoria Lake, for the last few years. Along with other guests we bask in the glory of Northern Ontario. Camp Madawaska is a slice of heaven that holds the sky filled mirror, Victoria Lake, that in turn holds an ecologically untouched, majestic, tree covered island known as Weston Island. Victoria Lake is fed by the Opeongo River that flows directly from Algonquin Provincial Park into the loon skimmed, moose trudged, deer wandered lake. Stars sparkle there in the unpolluted black night sky. Wolves yowl their dissonance in the distant...