Collegiale de Notre Dame

Collegiale de Notre Dame

by | Dec 15, 2022 | Family, Resurrection, Russia, Soviet Union

Semur-en-Auxios, France The weather in France has turned cold, between 30-34F.  I hear guffaws all the way from Northern Wisconsin. A blizzard sweeps across the northern plains and into the Northwoods as I type.  Today is an anniversary of sorts. Patrice and I arrived...
Writing in France

Writing in France

by | Nov 15, 2022 | Deception

La Coutine near Villars-Villenote My part of Burgundy (Côte-d’Or)  is a  landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season),  the  hillsides dotted with white...
A Wedding In France

A Wedding In France

by | Sep 17, 2017 | Croatia, Germany, Wisconsin

On 10 August 2017, in Bergerac, France my daughter, Michelle Elisabeth Townsend, married. Michelle gave me 45 seconds to summarize before the assembled my impressions, recollections, hopes and fears. I wanted five days. Patrice made me sit down, write what I wanted to...
A Simple Plan

A Simple Plan

by | Sep 1, 2014 | Publishing, Russia

  Two down; three to go There is a recent novel, A Simple Plan, where two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffel bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these...
The Wounded, The next book…

The Wounded, The next book…

by | Aug 21, 2014 | Publishing

The Wounded the second novel in The Long War series:   Available to pre-order now  1 October  price $4.99 Pre-order price $2.99  at: Kindle Barnes and Noble IBOOK KOBO  (credit card not charged until the book is shipped on 1 October 2014) “The Wounded” is the second...