Read the part that interest you, if any. I will start with the simple part, the cottage. I did hospital chemo today and had a bolus of steroids that always renders me a bit manic and wordy, so skimming is fine with me. The Cliff Notes version is, the cottage is moving along slowly, my…

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If you have considered reading The Stones of Yemen but have not obtained a copy of the book yet, I wanted to mention two new opportunities. Kindle Unlimited: If you are a subscriber of Kindle Unlimited, The Stones of Yemen is now available for free to you. Just search for it like you usually do…

Here’s a brief video below of the concrete pumper truck delivering the first of two concrete pours. I am becoming more committed to this project with each passing day. Of course, at any stage I could do an about face and turn this into a goat barn for Denise, especially if my health fails. I…

I wanted to add a bit more in writing to my video about this cottage dream. My concrete foundation guys are hard at work, almost finished preparing for the first of two concrete pours. I’ve watched them over the past three days and I struggle to imagine now that I seriously contemplated doing the foundation…

While my new book, The Stones of Yemen, is a novel, it–like most fictional writing–is built around a nugget of truth. A central event in my story is the bombing of a school bus in Sa’dah, Yemen. It was an historical event on August 8, 2018. Below, I’ve posted a 25 minute documentary from Aljazeera…

It was in the summer of 1981 that I first became acquainted with the Arab world and grew to love the people while working in Abu Dhabi and Oman as a physician associate student. I draw from that experience, plus many others, for the development of the story in The Stones of Yemen. A mind-blowing…