Life's Garden Books

Anyone with siblings knows how it feels to be compared to one of them. Sometimes, that contrast is used by your parents to encourage you. Other times, it’s a way of telling you that you are a disappointment or lacking. In some ways, it’s worse when you know that your parents love you, but your failure to live the life they’ve envisioned makes you somehow less in their eyes. Learning how to be your own person and follow the path you have chosen can be painful and accompanied by missteps. For Keith and Kevin, their divergent paths into the bumpy terrain of parental expectations collide with success and growing wisdom. Who is the good son, and what does it mean? Only their lives will answer that.

If life is a garden, it is still important to weed and prune. Transplanted to the country when you have spent your whole life living in a city, or being forced to move your children away from their friends and school because of a job. These are all events in the garden of life. Ranging from humorous tales of beloved pets to parents’ appreciation of their maturing children, the stories collected into this compendium are the author’s garden of life. Flowers, bushes, and weeds are all woven into fictional tales that are perfect for reason from the fire or in the serenity of a porch swing. In turns thought-provoking and amusing, the stories run the emotional gambit of spine-tingling danger and loving laughter. Come walk through the garden and share the garden that was built in the mind of this author. Come smell the roses, feast your eyes on the colors, and enjoy the garden view.