I am no stranger to books. Their value as a source of information, wisdom, and professional competence was clear to me when I served as a university professor, dean, president, and EVP of national higher education professional organizations.

It was only in my semi-retirement, when I owned a small bookstore, that I came to appreciate what books offer, not only to bibliophiles but to anyone with an inquisitive mind.

Now I have come full-circle: from reader-to seller-to author.  I find it most gratifying to combine cultural context, intriguing lives, and pure imagination in telling the stories of individuals who lived decades, centuries, even millennia ago.  They were, after all, humans not all that different from those of us in the present.  We have a commonality in our desires, our emotions, our beliefs, and sometimes our values.  

Other collections remembering and honoring past heroes, presidents, warriors, and saints and angels among us will follow The Carpenter Anthology.