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Grandmothers always say, "Yes," to everything, right? Not this Grammy!When asked if pickles and raisins can be added to a peanut butter sandwich, at first Grammy says, "No!" but then she wonders, "Why not? That might be good!" When asked if it''s okay to play outside when it''s raining, Grammy says, "No!" but then agrees it is fun to get wet as long as everyone stays safe. When asked if the swingset can be painted six different colors, Grammy says, "No!" but then decides it might be pretty. In this delightful tale, Grammy soon realizes that sometimes "No!" may not be the best response and sometimes it is the perfect response.

Like his other publications, this book follows a story line that ranges from the early years, the lawman or bounty hunting years, finding a soulmate, and settling down after they hang-up their guns. A dynamic couple goes on the trail to rescue kidnapped victims in the Colorado mining districts. After putting an end to organized abduction of rich miner's wives, they settle down and follow their lifelong dream-establishing a crop farm and a gold mine.

Every 37 seconds an American dies of cardiovascular disease. For nearly half of its victims atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease shows up suddenly with a heart attack or sudden death - as if appearing out of a fog. This is the disease that kills most men and women in the United States and knowing about it earlier makes common sense.Atherosclerosis starts silently in our teen years, and often tracks with poor lifestyle, and poorly controlled risk factors including poor nutrition, abnormal lipids, high BP, diabetes, tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and importantly, genetic predisposition. The development and progression of coronary atherosclerosis is a silent process and each year nearly 150,000 Americans present with fatal myocardial infarction as the one and only manifestation of this indolent disease.It is obvious that our current methods to identify and treat atherosclerotic vascular disease fail too many.

In this updated and revised edition of Just Passing Through: A German-American Family Saga, first published in 2011, the author tells the story of several generations of his unique but dysfunctional family spanning over a hundred years including the two world wars. The book centers on the author''s mother, whom her children called Mutti, and her ordeal during the Nazi era for having been married to a Jew, the son of prosperous Frankfurt business owners, with whom she had two children. With anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany, her husband decided to emigrate to America but Mutti chose to remain behind to take care of her ailing father. The couple had an amicable divorce and while her ex-husband took their son with him, their daughter remained with Mutti in Germany. Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, mother and daughter now found themselves classified as non-Aryans which meant that Mutti could not remarry while their teenage daughter, being half Jewish, was put in dire jeopardy of her life. At this point Mutti''s older brother, himself a dedicated National Socialist, proposed an unconventional solution that ensured her survival. Following his advice, she had more children, fathered by so-called Aryans, who were eventually all brought to America. The book follows the lives of the five siblings, all half-brothers and half-sisters, and their difficult relationships with each other as each seeks to achieve his or her version of the American Dream.

The author is a retired medical doctor who shares his retirement with his wife of 51 years. Summers are spent in Vermont with their children and families, and winters in the Texas Rio Grande Valley with friends. This author enjoys writing about the modernizing and changing times of the Western culture before the 1900's. Like his other Western fictions, he incorporates plenty of gun action during violent times, as well as adding a twist to every story.