About
Born in 1932 we moved a lot, aboutevery 3 years. I attended the US Naval Academy, class of 1955. Iserved aboard the USS Stoddard (DD-566), then attended flight schoolin Pensacola and Corpus Christi. Next I was assigned to VR-21 inBarber's Point, HI. My next assignment was in VS-29 flying the S2aircraft. I accumulated 150 carrier landings, mostly while aboard theUSS Kearsarge (CVS-33). I ended my naval career in VT-28, CorpusChristi and Kingsville NAAS, both in Texas. I spent 29 years at IBMSan Jose, CA as a Quality Assurance Engineer, specializing inExperiment Design before retiring at age 55 to go cruising in myFreedom 28 Cat Ketch "Broad Reacher". After more than30,000 nautical miles over the bottom I have taken up RVing and nowreside in a house with my mate Jean in Bardstown, KY. I have taken upwriting and have published 3 articles on Amazon using the KDPplatform. I am presently at work on a book about my navy adventures.
Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
In preparation for posting a book I am working on, I posted an article to see how the Amazon DKP works. I ended up writing 3 articles, this is the second of those.
