How we got to Key West

     The way our family ended up in Key West, in the early nineties, is both true and funny now.  My wife, Elizabeth of 26 years, who was taken by cancer several years back, and I purchased a lot just outside Aspen. We had been traveling between Aspen and Key West for some years, looking for a small town atmosphere.  Like most cities, the inner city of Memphis changed, from when she grew up there and again, we wanted a safer place to raise our children.

    Well it came time to make the move,  I ask her, were would you like to move? Her response, and I still hear her voice today was, “I love the mountains, but I am afraid, if we got snowed in on the side of the mountain for several months, even wtih all the love I have for you, I might kill you.” She smiled and we moved to Key West.

    I get ask a lot “What is your book about?”  This is a tough question to answer without giving the book away, but a book, to me is a journey.  I try to touch on all of one’s emotions i.e. Love, hate, death, romance, mystery, adventure and of course one must have a humor or I think you would go crazy in life.  I think my book, The Last Ruble, also focuses on loyalty, not only to loved ones, but to one’s self.  Loyalty to me is one of the major foundations in life.

     There are two main characters in my book, Jack Rivers who lives in the current times and Vladimir, a Russia soldier, who lives in a past years.  Together they travel many of the same paths in life, while searching for peace.  Their travels around the world and over the years bring them across the paths of many different people from different cultures and both seek to understand the meaning of peace within, although the cards they are handed to play are not always a winning hand.

     Not only will many of your emotions be touched in my book, but you will end up pulling for my main characters, as you live with them, as they come upon the cross roads in life they encounter.