Alfie, the Cat

You may have heard Dionne Warwick sing  “…What’s it all about, Alfie?” You may have seen the movie “Alfie”. We remember the cat Alfie. Met Alfie in 1975 when I moved into a 15-story Honolulu condominium. Alfie lived on the fourth floor, and he was famous for falling four floors. And surviving. Alfie leaped for a bird that lit on his balcony, missed the bird, landed in a tree beside the swimming pool. Swimmers helped

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Country Doctor

Spending my summer in a small Indiana town , surrounded by corn and soybean fields as I write World War II historical fiction.             Went to see my “Country Doctor” the other day.             Besides my health, we have another common interest—book writing.   Both of us have published a book with an independent publisher. Neither of us made the best-selling list.  Four years ago, I bought and read his book: “Surviving and Thriving with a Chronic

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