Recovering from the shock of seeing her husband brutally murdered, Lynette Wyckoff has more than her fragile health to overcome at the Ocean Cape Convalescent Center in southern New Jersey.  Faced with repeated questioning by a Manhattan homicide detective and battling the cruel nurse who is convinced she is guilty of murder, the beautiful and wealthy fifty-year-old Lynette is forced to face the prejudices, discrimination, and bigotry that have shaped her life as she undergoes her daily sessions with head psychiatrist, Dr. Max Shapiro.  

Born deep within the Pine Barrens of New Jersey and shunned by her peers as a teenager, Lynette has managed to overcome her background to climb to the top of the corporate world.   She has everything anyone could ask for-everything that is, except love.  As she tells about her poverty stricken early years in the Barrens, growing up in a squatter's shanty in Anglesea, the '60s, and her lifelong struggle for acceptance, Lynette is finally forced to face the issue of Billy Stillwell, the only man she has ever loved and the father of her daughter, Stephanie.

Abby and Jay Alfred are husband and wife, best of friends, residents of New York City in 1969. They are college professors and experts in the music of John Field and the writings of T S Eliot, respectively.

When Abby falls mysteriously ill Jay transforms their apartment into a dynamic retreat for healing and recovery, much to the chagrin of his in-laws. Surrounded by a few close friends, aided by two committed doctors, and supported by their students and some newly met strangers, the couple struggles heroically to overcome the odds of fi ghting disease and the threat of legal interference with their preference for home care. Outside the tumultuous world of 1969 roils around them with the social unrest of anti-war protests, the corrupting infl uence of drugs, and the suspicion of medical malpractice, while the baseball Mets pulse the city’s beat toward a world championship and Americans fi rst set foot on the moon.

But will they ever be able to get out again into that world together? How will Jay win their race against time, battle the despair and anger assailing them from all sides, break through Abby’s coma to assure her of his constant love and bring her back from the brink of oblivion?

Hattie Ambrose, a solitary woman artist and the main character in through the woods, is searching for an enduring relationship based on trust and mutual respect. She desires a life-enhancing union filled with passion, creativity and adventure. She strives for a meaningful life and work but is constantly confronting loneliness, self-doubt, disappointment and despair. She envisions her life as one of achievement, simplicity and purpose. Her unusual degree of determination propels her forward toward artistic, professional and romantic fulfillment. A recurrent source of tension in the story reverberates between her search for the one great love of her life, embodied in the painter Rex Dravus, and her art, with her all along, that she ultimately realizes may be the greatest passion she will ever know. Her insight, wisdom, patience, and hard won self-knowledge help her to reluctantly acknowledge the man who has loved her passionately throughout their stormy relationship might not be the one with whom she will stay.Throughout the novel Hattie evolves through various stages as she sheds conventional physical, emotional, and artistic restrictions to live her life on her own terms. Yearning to unburden herself of personal and social constraints, she works to unleash the natural, instinctive, free spirit that resides within her.Little by little she struggles to transcend the cumbersome limitations as she moves toward becoming a free, untamable, unique, and arrestingly whole woman. In order to fully develop her artistic vision and follow her creative destiny, she must remain undeterred by any obstacles. She realizes that this includes all personal relationships, at least for the present, especially the demanding one in which she is currently involved. Finally she reaches the painful decision to pursue the fulfillment of her dreams on her own and stay on her charted course. She is alone again with her Art. Her salvation is in knowing that it will always be there to sustain her.

Abby and Jay Alfred are husband and wife, best of friends, residents of New York City in 1969. They are college professors and experts in the music of John Field and the writings of T S Eliot, respectively.

When Abby falls mysteriously ill Jay transforms their apartment into a dynamic retreat for healing and recovery, much to the chagrin of his in-laws. Surrounded by a few close friends, aided by two committed doctors, and supported by their students and some newly met strangers, the couple struggles heroically to overcome the odds of fi ghting disease and the threat of legal interference with their preference for home care. Outside the tumultuous world of 1969 roils around them with the social unrest of anti-war protests, the corrupting infl uence of drugs, and the suspicion of medical malpractice, while the baseball Mets pulse the city’s beat toward a world championship and Americans fi rst set foot on the moon.

But will they ever be able to get out again into that world together? How will Jay win their race against time, battle the despair and anger assailing them from all sides, break through Abby’s coma to assure her of his constant love and bring her back from the brink of oblivion?

Abby and Jay Alfred are husband and wife, best of friends, residents of New York City in 1969. They are college professors and experts in the music of John Field and the writings of T S Eliot, respectively.

When Abby falls mysteriously ill Jay transforms their apartment into a dynamic retreat for healing and recovery, much to the chagrin of his in-laws. Surrounded by a few close friends, aided by two committed doctors, and supported by their students and some newly met strangers, the couple struggles heroically to overcome the odds of fi ghting disease and the threat of legal interference with their preference for home care. Outside the tumultuous world of 1969 roils around them with the social unrest of anti-war protests, the corrupting infl uence of drugs, and the suspicion of medical malpractice, while the baseball Mets pulse the city’s beat toward a world championship and Americans fi rst set foot on the moon.

But will they ever be able to get out again into that world together? How will Jay win their race against time, battle the despair and anger assailing them from all sides, break through Abby’s coma to assure her of his constant love and bring her back from the brink of oblivion?

Hattie Ambrose, a solitary woman artist and the main character in through the woods, is searching for an enduring relationship based on trust and mutual respect. She desires a life-enhancing union filled with passion, creativity and adventure. She strives for a meaningful life and work but is constantly confronting loneliness, self-doubt, disappointment and despair. She envisions her life as one of achievement, simplicity and purpose. Her unusual degree of determination propels her forward toward artistic, professional and romantic fulfillment. A recurrent source of tension in the story reverberates between her search for the one great love of her life, embodied in the painter Rex Dravus, and her art, with her all along, that she ultimately realizes may be the greatest passion she will ever know. Her insight, wisdom, patience, and hard won self-knowledge help her to reluctantly acknowledge the man who has loved her passionately throughout their stormy relationship might not be the one with whom she will stay.Throughout the novel Hattie evolves through various stages as she sheds conventional physical, emotional, and artistic restrictions to live her life on her own terms. Yearning to unburden herself of personal and social constraints, she works to unleash the natural, instinctive, free spirit that resides within her.Little by little she struggles to transcend the cumbersome limitations as she moves toward becoming a free, untamable, unique, and arrestingly whole woman. In order to fully develop her artistic vision and follow her creative destiny, she must remain undeterred by any obstacles. She realizes that this includes all personal relationships, at least for the present, especially the demanding one in which she is currently involved. Finally she reaches the painful decision to pursue the fulfillment of her dreams on her own and stay on her charted course. She is alone again with her Art. Her salvation is in knowing that it will always be there to sustain her.

Hattie Ambrose, a solitary woman artist and the main character in through the woods, is searching for an enduring relationship based on trust and mutual respect. She desires a life-enhancing union filled with passion, creativity and adventure. She strives for a meaningful life and work but is constantly confronting loneliness, self-doubt, disappointment and despair. She envisions her life as one of achievement, simplicity and purpose. Her unusual degree of determination propels her forward toward artistic, professional and romantic fulfillment. A recurrent source of tension in the story reverberates between her search for the one great love of her life, embodied in the painter Rex Dravus, and her art, with her all along, that she ultimately realizes may be the greatest passion she will ever know. Her insight, wisdom, patience, and hard won self-knowledge help her to reluctantly acknowledge the man who has loved her passionately throughout their stormy relationship might not be the one with whom she will stay.Throughout the novel Hattie evolves through various stages as she sheds conventional physical, emotional, and artistic restrictions to live her life on her own terms. Yearning to unburden herself of personal and social constraints, she works to unleash the natural, instinctive, free spirit that resides within her.Little by little she struggles to transcend the cumbersome limitations as she moves toward becoming a free, untamable, unique, and arrestingly whole woman. In order to fully develop her artistic vision and follow her creative destiny, she must remain undeterred by any obstacles. She realizes that this includes all personal relationships, at least for the present, especially the demanding one in which she is currently involved. Finally she reaches the painful decision to pursue the fulfillment of her dreams on her own and stay on her charted course. She is alone again with her Art. Her salvation is in knowing that it will always be there to sustain her.

The Krottkey Chronicles examines the relationships among a group of young people in Austin, Texas in the early 1980s.  In those days the Lone Star State´s capital city hummed with creative energy. At the University of Texas, Michael Dell cobbled together computers in his dormitory room.  An earnest young Paul Begala ran for student body president, losing a close race to a giant purple cartoon character called Hank the Hallucination.  Stevie Ray Vaughan played nightly in the clubs downtown and Louis Black and Nick Barbaro published the first thin issues of their alternative-press biweekly, the Austin Chronicle.  This is the backdrop for The Krottkey Chronicles .  While they deal with the pressures of college, sexuality, and a dismally unsuccessful bout of radical politics, Duncan McCaffrey, Gilbert Ochoa, and their more or less destitute friends fight and laugh and fall just a little in love. A funny, wistful story about growing up and reaching out, The Krottkey Chronicles is for anyone who’s ever felt, in the words of Bruce Springsteen, “so weak I just wanna explode.”

Note: As of 10/14/05, a portion of all royalties on sales of The Krottkey Chronicles will go to Austin´s Save Our Springs Alliance, which works to preserve the clean water of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer.

The Krottkey Chronicles examines the relationships among a group of young people in Austin, Texas in the early 1980s.  In those days the Lone Star State´s capital city hummed with creative energy. At the University of Texas, Michael Dell cobbled together computers in his dormitory room.  An earnest young Paul Begala ran for student body president, losing a close race to a giant purple cartoon character called Hank the Hallucination.  Stevie Ray Vaughan played nightly in the clubs downtown and Louis Black and Nick Barbaro published the first thin issues of their alternative-press biweekly, the Austin Chronicle.  This is the backdrop for The Krottkey Chronicles .  While they deal with the pressures of college, sexuality, and a dismally unsuccessful bout of radical politics, Duncan McCaffrey, Gilbert Ochoa, and their more or less destitute friends fight and laugh and fall just a little in love. A funny, wistful story about growing up and reaching out, The Krottkey Chronicles is for anyone who’s ever felt, in the words of Bruce Springsteen, “so weak I just wanna explode.”

Note: As of 10/14/05, a portion of all royalties on sales of The Krottkey Chronicles will go to Austin´s Save Our Springs Alliance, which works to preserve the clean water of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer.

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