Lines from the Times

Real life is the birthplace of the best stories. The tales related in Lines From the Times are drawn from real life. Lacking the length of a short story these tales are pithy reflections on life as it is encountered by the author. From a little girl's conversation on a park bench a grown man flying a kite in the church yard a daughter's attempts to rein in an indulgent grandfather a homeless man or a drug-influenced woman seeking direction an adventure getting children off to school strangers passed along life's journey all combine to entertain and delight. These are not sermons by any means but hey are parables of life where one finds a lesson taught a prejudice challenged or a value uplifted. Lines From the Times is a mirror held up to our age reflecting our beauty and our blemishes. There's love in these pages; there's sadness for love not shown. There's acceptance here; there's rejection. We can find ourselves tucked inside the stories ourselves at our best and at our worse.