Ollie And Catalina Island

He remembered that she loved to fly with him, and especially enjoyed their short flights from Torrance, CA airport directly over the ocean to Catalina Island. She loved to watch the beautiful sparkling ocean, and the heart pounding landing on a cliff, just off the end of the runway, on the Island. He remembered that before each landing, she put her hand on his leg for security. and to calm her nerves. They Read More

Don’t Be Weak: Be a Mighty Tardigrade

If you are tough and resilient, adaptable to change, and hard to kill, then, some may call you superman, Rocky Balboa, Iron Man or perhaps the Rock of Gibraltar, I suppose. They may even call you tough as nails.   But when it comes to animals, then, the toughest is without question, the mighty Tardigrade. What is a Tardigrade?  They are called water bears, and are basically aquatic animal Read More

Thanks for Supporting Blue Shadows

I would like to thank those who have read or are still reading my new thriller. I am getting great feedback on the book, and I am hearing that readers “can’t put it down”. People are also apparently waiting anxiously for the audio book to be available on Amazon. Sorry, but I am not sure when the audio book will appear, so my best advice is to keep looking on amazon and soon it will “p Read More

Blue Shadows is Finally Released!!

Blue Shadows is my thriller that has taken me 7 years to write and publish. It is unique combination of medical drama. terrorism and counter-terrorism, patriotism, hot romance and a bit of spirituality. It will be available on my store on my website in the near future. Until then, here is the amazon link: https://amzn.to/45bXWKO Read More

I Still Can’t Find The Old Man

It’s been about six and a half weeks since the shadow men, or his “handlers” barged in to my office and demanded information from me regarding his disappearance, or more truthfully, how they lost track of the old man.  I haven’t heard from them since, but I imagine they have been replaced by new colleagues after that major screw-up.   But the emptiness I felt inside from his absence had be Read More

Bob Started It

As my part-time writing career continues, curious people occasionally ask me how I started writing or perhaps why I started writing. And of course, I never gave it much thought as to what triggered the origins of this bug, or itch to put words down on paper. I just started writing. Then I wrote some more. Went to writing conferences, and met a lot of people who were better than I was, and I practiced th Read More

Audio Book Auditions

Lake MIchigan Now that my book is closer to publication, the publisher sent to me 15 audio files of professional voice actors, or at least I assume they were professional, and I was asked to choose one to do the audio narration of my book. I tell you what, this was a difficult project. I listened to all fifteen of them and even asked a few people for their opinions, and I was able to narrow it down Read More

He Left Something Behind

I finished with my last patient of the day, but there was still another of my colleagues in a room with a patient. Two office staff remained in the office: a medical assistant to put patients in the room, take their vitals and write down their medications and enter them in the computer, as well as one remaining receptionist.  The rest had already left for the day.  I appreciated the quiet and the Read More

Get Ready! Release date set for 8/15/23

Finally, after 7 years of hard work, research, revisions, reviews and late nights, Blue Shadows, my thriller, will be published. It has a little of everything, which makes it unusual for a thriller: action, suspense, romance, sex, a bit of world events, and the presence of the almighty. Some readers may wish to consult their cardiologist before reading it, however, because hearts will tend to beat fast. Read More