Looking for the Jersey State Trooper
(about 90,000 words)
At midnight, in august of 1962 five 12-year-old boys and Lulu, a precocious 10 year old, lie on a garage roof in Bayonne NJ searching the heavens for signs of extraterrestrial life . The following school year, while the boys are consumed by exploding passions for sports, reckless adventures and girls, ......
Intermezzo
(about 72,000 words)
The late 1960s and early ‘70s were times of sexual freedom unlike any in our history. The “Pill” had made pregnancy a non-issue; STDs were treatable and no longer a deterrent to one-night-stands and chance encounters; free-love advocates of the ‘60s hippy generation and early feminist writers encouraged women to explore .....
Madame Lasagna and the Dead Frog - A Novel of Scientific Discovery
(about 94,000 words with 9 illustrations)
How do our brains form a memory? Why are humans unable to re-grow a severed spinal cord while adult fish and frogs can? And, the most fundamental question in neuroscience research - how do the billions of nerve cells in our developing brains ‘know’ which neurons to make contact with as they ......