A moving story that explores the relationship between us and the natural world through the powerful imagery of elephants.

The author's naval career included staff assignments at four major hospitals; a hospital ship, the USS Repose off VietNam '68-'69; and the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He then returned to Norfolk, Virginia and continued his neurosurgical career in private practice and as Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. From his challenging and extensive experience he transcends the too often impersonal world of medicine with honed skill, mixing poignancy and humor, to tell the story of a marine intelligence officer surviving a serious head injury, entering the political arena, and progressing to the White House. The author concludes the story by addressing America's healthcare problem in his graphic and verisimilar style.

While handling reporting assignments for his father's newspaper, become involved in a world of mystery and intrigue.

The much-anticipated debut collection from a celebrated young poet, Someone Else's Wedding Vows marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in American poetry. Someone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the different forms of love, which can be both tremendously joyous and devastatingly destructive. The title poem confronts a human ritual of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding photographer. Within the tedium and alienation of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone explores our everyday patterns and customs, and in doing so, exposes them for their complexities. Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psychological, and even supernatural, this collection confronts the difficulties of love and family. Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but the questions she asks are never answered simply. These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing towards the absurdity of our choices. They recede into the imaginative in order to understand and translate the distressing nature of reality. It is a bittersweet question this book raises: Why we are like this? There is no easy answer. So while we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.

While handling reporting assignments for his father's newspaper, become involved in a world of mystery and intrigue.

Elephant finds a book and then sneezes, mixing up all the letters.

After everything that was has been burned away an elephant guides an orphaned boy on the path into what will be. The boy learns many lessons along the path to his future. I have never written a book before. This book chose me. The elephant in the story came to me in a reoccurring dream. In my dreams, we would walk together on a path. Sometimes the path took me back into my past as a boy, and sometimes it took me into my future as a man. I began seeing news reports on how elephants were being poisoned at their watering holes simply to get a few tusks. A whole herd, forty elephants, killed. It broke my heart. Every night when I went to bed, the thoughts would turn into dreams, and in the morning dreams would turn into words and pictures. It is estimated at the current rate of these mass killings that in TWELVE YEARS, there will be NO African elephants left in the wild. A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to www.biglife.org Please visit there site to learn about the wonderful things they are doing to help save the elephants and other animals. John L Petsco Jr. Namaste