LITERARY PROGRESS
Lou is working on research for her 1980s memoirs. She is reading the files that she dug up with Kathy's help. She is also reading and sharing with me James Ward Lee's ADVENTURES WITH A TEXAS HUMANIST. One chapter is a well researched and written sermon, although he denies being a preacher. Lou thinks it was great. She says he also has small towns nailed. Even to the dialect. Tomorrow Bob Compton and a friend from Dallas that have an interest in museums and books are bringing Margaret Waring from Comanche to visit and look at Lou's books. Our son Mark, his wife and daughter Ashley are also coming in for a visit. Kathy will be back Sunday after buying a house in San Antonio this week. They are looking forward to moving out of their cramped apartment into a full size home.
I finished the first of Marc Otte's books under the pen name of Mark Henry and enjoyed it. It was set in the Montana, Utah and Nevada forest fires of 1910 and with the news about the myriad fires in California being set by lightning was very topical. He introduces a protaganist who is one quarter Scotch and three quarters Apache. At least his mother was Apache and his father's mother was Indian. He marries an Indian woman and has all the problems of racial prejudice that existed during the time of both white and Indian depredations. The book is HARD ROAD TO HEAVEN and it is a shame that it is out of print. I bought it on Abebooks for a dollar, so there are still copies of the used variety out there. His second book under that pen name is THE HELL RIDERS and I am about half way through it and it tells the history of the protaganist and his family. All of Otte's books are heavy with tracking. Marc is the Chief Deputy of the District of Alaska and tracking is a part of his job. He has trained under one of the best in the country and gave an excellent program on tracking a few years ago at Western Writers of America. His novels have a lot of action where the good guys win but only after getting beat up pretty bad. I have enjoyed them. The introduction to the second book is a short essay on how Marc grew up in Hamilton County and read about Texas Rangers and decided to go into law enforcement. It has an interesting vignette on an early encounter with a decomposing body and asking a Texas Ranger for assistance. It is worth the price of the book. The books were published by Pinnacle Westerns and only cost $5.99 originally.
Health updates: Lou is still hurting all day and night. Pain medicine helps a little but she still has pains. The good news is that she is able to walk every other day and has not had any more disks collapse in her back. I am healing from my abrasions and bruises. The black eye is almost gone. Monday Kathy will take me to Abilene for cataract surgery at 6:30 a.m. Then Tuesday we go to Lubbock for an appointment with my Urologist. Then Wednesday Lou will go in for another CA 125 test in Abilene. So another week supporting the medical profession.
Lou is working on research for her 1980s memoirs. She is reading the files that she dug up with Kathy's help. She is also reading and sharing with me James Ward Lee's ADVENTURES WITH A TEXAS HUMANIST. One chapter is a well researched and written sermon, although he denies being a preacher. Lou thinks it was great. She says he also has small towns nailed. Even to the dialect. Tomorrow Bob Compton and a friend from Dallas that have an interest in museums and books are bringing Margaret Waring from Comanche to visit and look at Lou's books. Our son Mark, his wife and daughter Ashley are also coming in for a visit. Kathy will be back Sunday after buying a house in San Antonio this week. They are looking forward to moving out of their cramped apartment into a full size home.
I finished the first of Marc Otte's books under the pen name of Mark Henry and enjoyed it. It was set in the Montana, Utah and Nevada forest fires of 1910 and with the news about the myriad fires in California being set by lightning was very topical. He introduces a protaganist who is one quarter Scotch and three quarters Apache. At least his mother was Apache and his father's mother was Indian. He marries an Indian woman and has all the problems of racial prejudice that existed during the time of both white and Indian depredations. The book is HARD ROAD TO HEAVEN and it is a shame that it is out of print. I bought it on Abebooks for a dollar, so there are still copies of the used variety out there. His second book under that pen name is THE HELL RIDERS and I am about half way through it and it tells the history of the protaganist and his family. All of Otte's books are heavy with tracking. Marc is the Chief Deputy of the District of Alaska and tracking is a part of his job. He has trained under one of the best in the country and gave an excellent program on tracking a few years ago at Western Writers of America. His novels have a lot of action where the good guys win but only after getting beat up pretty bad. I have enjoyed them. The introduction to the second book is a short essay on how Marc grew up in Hamilton County and read about Texas Rangers and decided to go into law enforcement. It has an interesting vignette on an early encounter with a decomposing body and asking a Texas Ranger for assistance. It is worth the price of the book. The books were published by Pinnacle Westerns and only cost $5.99 originally.
Health updates: Lou is still hurting all day and night. Pain medicine helps a little but she still has pains. The good news is that she is able to walk every other day and has not had any more disks collapse in her back. I am healing from my abrasions and bruises. The black eye is almost gone. Monday Kathy will take me to Abilene for cataract surgery at 6:30 a.m. Then Tuesday we go to Lubbock for an appointment with my Urologist. Then Wednesday Lou will go in for another CA 125 test in Abilene. So another week supporting the medical profession.
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