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What do heroes look like? Certainly not like Big Red, a washed-up 290 pound Vietnam vet and ex-Mississippi River towboat pilot haunted by his past. There's no 'S' on his huge chest, no cape on his back. He's certainly no hero. Or is he? The answer is in his notebook. Penniless and cooped up in a Min... Read More about Rounding the Bend: The Life and Times of Big Red

As a young boy, rounding a bend in a remote Maine cove, Dave Roper stumbled upon two mermaids. No one believed him then. No one believes him now. But he kept watching and wondering: what is imagined and what is real? And while he watched and wondered during 50 years of waterborne life - as a boy, a ... Read More about Watching for Mermaids

This captivating blend of twenty stories perfectly captures life's tangles, knots and bends - from the crushed fantasies of a little girl; to the teenage world of a modern-day Odysseus lured to shore by romance; to near death in the midst of a frozen young marriage; to a middle-aged PTSD- suffering ... Read More about Beyond Mermaids: Life's Tangles, Knots and Bends