Quoting Betty Jane Kimpton, 84 years of age, “There is so much to live for and to be thankful for without looking on the dark side of life and the many ailments that come in our senior years.” She is a person who enjoys making humor out of most situations and finds any subject to be a topic on which to pen a poem. Any word or subject is bait for one so apt to write poetry. It is with this thought in mind that this book has been written with the hope that others may enjoy fictional situations that can occur in any residence such as a retirement home or elsewhere. Her past vocations have been that of a grade school student writing poetry, a high school student writing drama that was acted out there, composing both poetry and music as the situations came up, a nurse, a wife and mother of three sons, a secretary, a “you name it” as she calls it. When asked what her vocation is now, she replies, “ I am a Household Executive!”

“OH, BY THE WAY . . . . . . . . . “ is a whimsical anecdote of life in a retirement community called a “home”. Narration has been made of various incidents taking place there, both humorous and serious. This has been interspersed with poetry written by the author and Christian quips that enhance the rendition of life as it has been, is and that which is to come.

Seventh Grade is as close as you’re going to get to Mark Twain. Had Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had the same technology and number of friends in the same school as did the bad class, they would have done the same things. Take an adventure back to 1975; to a time when freedom was easily attainable and the school system put education ahead of discipline, instead of vice versa like it is today. You may just laugh out loud!

Seventh Grade is as close as you’re going to get to Mark Twain. Had Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had the same technology and number of friends in the same school as did the bad class, they would have done the same things. Take an adventure back to 1975; to a time when freedom was easily attainable and the school system put education ahead of discipline, instead of vice versa like it is today. You may just laugh out loud!

Seventh Grade is as close as you’re going to get to Mark Twain. Had Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had the same technology and number of friends in the same school as did the bad class, they would have done the same things. Take an adventure back to 1975; to a time when freedom was easily attainable and the school system put education ahead of discipline, instead of vice versa like it is today. You may just laugh out loud!

One last hurrah, spinning old rock tunes. A way to be remembered. That's all pioneer DJ Jimmy Robbins and friends have in mind when they hijack their old radio studios for a true "oldies weekend.  But a ruthless politician calls in SWAT teams,and the aging jocks find themselves waging a p-r battle in the world media spotlight.  While only words fly, they hold their own.  But when bullets fly, they must make a quick decision about their future -- and their pride.

STATION BREAK is a lighthearted look at a gang of bumbling has-beens, desperate to create a legacy before signing off for the final time.

One last hurrah, spinning old rock tunes. A way to be remembered. That's all pioneer DJ Jimmy Robbins and friends have in mind when they hijack their old radio studios for a true "oldies weekend.  But a ruthless politician calls in SWAT teams,and the aging jocks find themselves waging a p-r battle in the world media spotlight.  While only words fly, they hold their own.  But when bullets fly, they must make a quick decision about their future -- and their pride.

STATION BREAK is a lighthearted look at a gang of bumbling has-beens, desperate to create a legacy before signing off for the final time.

Ten years ago, Chanel left her home in Hawaii to pursue her now-thriving career as a model in New York. Coming home for the first time in many years, she finds that she has many emotional obstacles to overcome.Maiteo, her first and only love, is still living on the island, an entire package of a man complete with a career, dog, and an interfering mother who is still best friends with her own mother. Chanel’s own attempt at maintaining relationships with other men become entangled with her past relationship with Maiteo, who is not willing to forget their history and has made clear his feelings for her.Enjoy this romantic comedy and a few good laughs as you envelop yourself in this whimsical story of a young woman on the brink of discovering what love really is.

Ten years ago, Chanel left her home in Hawaii to pursue her now-thriving career as a model in New York. Coming home for the first time in many years, she finds that she has many emotional obstacles to overcome.Maiteo, her first and only love, is still living on the island, an entire package of a man complete with a career, dog, and an interfering mother who is still best friends with her own mother. Chanel’s own attempt at maintaining relationships with other men become entangled with her past relationship with Maiteo, who is not willing to forget their history and has made clear his feelings for her.Enjoy this romantic comedy and a few good laughs as you envelop yourself in this whimsical story of a young woman on the brink of discovering what love really is.

Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed.  Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette´s delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person´s reading listTHE LITERARY REVIEWThis book is a great ramble, rather like a chapterless Montaigne popping from one subject to the next, drawing connections no one else would ever have thought of, but with Groucho Marx, say, passing on hints over the writer1s shoulder as to how to go about it. We readers chuckle along and even burst out laughing as we advance through this hilarious book, but we gather, we too willy-nilly, the serious messages underlying the frolicking bounce and jocular mode of the writing.WORLD LITERATURE TODAYThe narrator of Albert Russo´s new novel, Zapinette, is a little girl of our time, very knowledgeable about the outside world, but also enormously ignorant of the language commonly used about it, and, as a result, very funny. Her phonetic transcriptions of what she hears and her malapropisms make of her a powerfully distorting lens but, strangely enough, also a reliable witness.  Albert Russo has thankfully spared us all the clichés of the genre, and what we read in his novel is a genuine portrait of a genuine child.SMALL PRESS REVIEWThis book which also appeared in the author´s own French translation and was favorably compared to Raymond Queneau´s masterpiece ZAZIE DANS LE METRO, has been discussed at the Catholic University of Paris. It was also offered to the one million subscribers of French Cable Television.Read the author´s sequel ZANY ZAPINETTE NEW YORK, published by www.Domhanbooks.com and view the author´s own literary website:www.albertrusso.comfor his other work - novels, story collections and poetry - in English and in French

Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed.  Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette´s delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person´s reading listTHE LITERARY REVIEWThis book is a great ramble, rather like a chapterless Montaigne popping from one subject to the next, drawing connections no one else would ever have thought of, but with Groucho Marx, say, passing on hints over the writer1s shoulder as to how to go about it. We readers chuckle along and even burst out laughing as we advance through this hilarious book, but we gather, we too willy-nilly, the serious messages underlying the frolicking bounce and jocular mode of the writing.WORLD LITERATURE TODAYThe narrator of Albert Russo´s new novel, Zapinette, is a little girl of our time, very knowledgeable about the outside world, but also enormously ignorant of the language commonly used about it, and, as a result, very funny. Her phonetic transcriptions of what she hears and her malapropisms make of her a powerfully distorting lens but, strangely enough, also a reliable witness.  Albert Russo has thankfully spared us all the clichés of the genre, and what we read in his novel is a genuine portrait of a genuine child.SMALL PRESS REVIEWThis book which also appeared in the author´s own French translation and was favorably compared to Raymond Queneau´s masterpiece ZAZIE DANS LE METRO, has been discussed at the Catholic University of Paris. It was also offered to the one million subscribers of French Cable Television.Read the author´s sequel ZANY ZAPINETTE NEW YORK, published by www.Domhanbooks.com and view the author´s own literary website:www.albertrusso.comfor his other work - novels, story collections and poetry - in English and in French

Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed.  Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette´s delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person´s reading listTHE LITERARY REVIEWThis book is a great ramble, rather like a chapterless Montaigne popping from one subject to the next, drawing connections no one else would ever have thought of, but with Groucho Marx, say, passing on hints over the writer1s shoulder as to how to go about it. We readers chuckle along and even burst out laughing as we advance through this hilarious book, but we gather, we too willy-nilly, the serious messages underlying the frolicking bounce and jocular mode of the writing.WORLD LITERATURE TODAYThe narrator of Albert Russo´s new novel, Zapinette, is a little girl of our time, very knowledgeable about the outside world, but also enormously ignorant of the language commonly used about it, and, as a result, very funny. Her phonetic transcriptions of what she hears and her malapropisms make of her a powerfully distorting lens but, strangely enough, also a reliable witness.  Albert Russo has thankfully spared us all the clichés of the genre, and what we read in his novel is a genuine portrait of a genuine child.SMALL PRESS REVIEWThis book which also appeared in the author´s own French translation and was favorably compared to Raymond Queneau´s masterpiece ZAZIE DANS LE METRO, has been discussed at the Catholic University of Paris. It was also offered to the one million subscribers of French Cable Television.Read the author´s sequel ZANY ZAPINETTE NEW YORK, published by www.Domhanbooks.com and view the author´s own literary website:www.albertrusso.comfor his other work - novels, story collections and poetry - in English and in French

THE LITERARY REVIEW: “... Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed. Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette´s delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person´s reading list.” Impatient, impertinent, raucous, and often passionate in her opinions (a trait she obviously inherits from her hot-blooded uncle), Zapinette regales us with words we’ve never heard before. Like her mother, she’s a staunch "felinist;" she worries about the "heather-setchuals" who are "VIP positive;" is freaked out by the "Clue Cocks Clan" and the "androidous" Michael Jackson; has read about the English playwright "Shake’em pears;" wishes more people would go see a "sigh-kayak-tryst;" and can’t stand an uppity blue-blood classmate she calls "Charlotte de Jerq." With Zapinette, you will discover Paris, Italy, New York and Belgium and have the ride of your life.

THE LITERARY REVIEW: “... Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed. Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette´s delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person´s reading list.” Impatient, impertinent, raucous, and often passionate in her opinions (a trait she obviously inherits from her hot-blooded uncle), Zapinette regales us with words we’ve never heard before. Like her mother, she’s a staunch "felinist;" she worries about the "heather-setchuals" who are "VIP positive;" is freaked out by the "Clue Cocks Clan" and the "androidous" Michael Jackson; has read about the English playwright "Shake’em pears;" wishes more people would go see a "sigh-kayak-tryst;" and can’t stand an uppity blue-blood classmate she calls "Charlotte de Jerq." With Zapinette, you will discover Paris, Italy, New York and Belgium and have the ride of your life.

THE LITERARY REVIEW: “... Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unscathed. Michael Jackson,Vittorio de Sica, Freddy Mercury, Mao Zedong, Bill and Hill, the Pope, Fidel Castro, and even Jesus of Nazareth all come under Zapinette´s delightfully zany fire as she "zaps" from topic to topic in an irrepressible flux. As the century of the double zeros dawns, we have seen the future and the future is sham. As a healthy dose of counter-sham, Zapinette Video should be on every brain-functional person´s reading list.” Impatient, impertinent, raucous, and often passionate in her opinions (a trait she obviously inherits from her hot-blooded uncle), Zapinette regales us with words we’ve never heard before. Like her mother, she’s a staunch "felinist;" she worries about the "heather-setchuals" who are "VIP positive;" is freaked out by the "Clue Cocks Clan" and the "androidous" Michael Jackson; has read about the English playwright "Shake’em pears;" wishes more people would go see a "sigh-kayak-tryst;" and can’t stand an uppity blue-blood classmate she calls "Charlotte de Jerq." With Zapinette, you will discover Paris, Italy, New York and Belgium and have the ride of your life.

Two stories under one cover.

THE BAKLA’S CROSS: The Philippine Republic is a grand place for fun and games. Angel Butol, ex-guerrilla, ex-policeman. and former supplier of film extras and other delights, gets involved with an American treasure hunter, a retired Japanese Major, and a Filipina “Bomba” star... she’s the sort makes naughty films. The problem with the adventure part is staying alive.

THE HIGH PRIESTESS: There’s not much one can’t find in Hollywood’s aerie version of early Greenwich Village. Hillsiders are forever seeking happiness. Some achieve it; others engage in fantasy. What happens to Lee McAdams could happen to anyone who loves old movies and dares live in the area. But beware of flatlanders... they are never what they