My life was spinning out of control. A force was at work I could not understand. I was trying to put pieces together, to remember - some whisper of a memory, about my Dad, when I was young. I was broke, unable to go look for a job, down enough to think about ending my life, mystified as to why it was all happening, and then I got the call - come home, Dad is dying. "Freedom's Just Another Word" is a memoir, set in Houston, Texas, in 1987. It is a complex narrative of a spiritual journey; a compelling and uplifting perspective on self discovery, family dynamics, the grief process, and healing.
I have been writing for about 25 years, while working as a businessman in the oil and gas and real estate title industries. My passion has always been writing, but I had a writing block that I couldn't understand for many years. I wrote 2 books that publishers were interested in, but I backed away and the books were never published.
Lost creativity and the effects of family alcoholism are just two of the elements of the story I explore in my first published book, Freedom's Just Another Word, which chronicles events around the time of my father's death. It is the first of a cycle of 7 books about healing old wounds with my father. That cycle will culminate with Nothing Left to Lose, written in 1993, about a critical turning point in my father's life, depicted from a perspective of forgiveness and admiration.
