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QUOTATIONS

" Some people live every day as if it were their last, I live every day as if it were the first one in the rest of my life"

" To love and to be loved and then to be no longer loved is then to be no longer, for to love is not enough"

" When I'm good I'm very good; but when I'm bad, I'm even better!"

" We only take care of things we LOVE, We only love the things we UNDERSTAND, We only understand what we are TAUGHT; So, TEACH your children well”

" In the order of things, it is not what we do for ourselves for which we shall be remembered, rather it is what we do for others that earns us a place in history"

" I am the sum of my past, you are my present, we will be the future"

JUST A MAN

I have felt the cold, dark waters of my hell
tapping gently at my dancing feet.
I've soared the bright blue skies alone
and felt the sunshine warm my soul.

I am of the earth and of the sky
I live the low and dream the high

You brought me love
You brought me hope
You are my high
Beyond the sky

You warm me more than sunshine can
But that's because I'm just a Man.
                                -1982

THE BIRD

In autumn's waning days
As leaves spread many ways
And winter winds began to blow
While rushing rivers ceased to flow
I chanced upon a lonely bird
Who's call remained unheard
By other birds who flew
To warmer climes, its true.

As winter winds did blow
And from the heavens fell the snow
This bird and I did share
those things in life so rare
I loved that bird with all my heart
and feared the day that we would part.
                                -1982

• TAINO PLACE - A made for TV Adventure Series based in the Caribbean. Loosely based on a combination of such successful TV Series such as The A Team, Magnum P.I. and Hart to Hart. The series revolves around a consultant/adventurer living in a tropical paradise who is retained by or becomes involved with people that lead to mysteries or intrigues which the hero and his team must solve using the varied locales in the Caribbean as a backdrop.
• A MATTER OF HABIT - This mystery novel closely follows the real-life murder of Sal Mineo, the well known star of stage and screen. The hero is a retired Swiss detective and his pekinese dog. Together they solve the case by coming to the realization that what is most obvious often is the most overlooked.
• TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES - An adventure, mystery novel concerning an entrepreneur who becomes involved in a high stakes venture capital chase involving a gold deposit, the Mafia and a promoter which he never knows for sure is for real or not. The book is fast paced and in the end the reader must decide whether the gold existed or not. This story is based on a factual incident that occurred in 1975.
• JP-4 - An espionage thriller of James Bond quality involving a fanatical Middle East Sheik, the Irish Republican Army, the CIA, MI-5 and Presidents, Kings and Prime Ministers of the Western World. The story revolves around the Arab sheik holding the western world hostage with the threat of detonating a series of bombs that would cripple NATO and upset the balance of power in Europe. Using the IRA, the sheik places these bombs at strategic points along the NATO Petroleum pipeline but must receive the detonator before being able to make good on his threat. A chase ensues across Europe and the ending is explosive, to say the least. The book makes use of the author's in-depth experience with NATO and its petroleum system.
• TEN YEARS ON  - A documentary of the insurgency in El Salvador beginning in 1979 and culminating in the guerilla offensive in November of 1989. An epilogue details the events surrounding the subsequent two years resulting in the peace accord between the FMLN and the Government. While the first few chapters discuss the origins of the conflict and what led up to the two week final offensive, the majority of the book concerns the actual two weeks of the offensive in great detail. The author's unique position during and after the conflict provides an eyewitness account replete with names of participants and victims, statistics and photographs.