LIFE takes funny twists, and we can't always know where the road will lead.  Not too many years ago, I retired from medicine after a quarter of a century as a private practitioner and a decade as a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. 

AFTER the death of my first wife in 1999, I began writing about my journey through grief.  This evolved into a book, The Tender Scar: Life After The Death Of A Spouse, which was released in March, 2006 by Kregel Publishers.  After The Tender Scar I wrote a number of short pieces, many of which have been published, but my passion became fiction.  Like most authors, I served a long apprenticeship, honing my craft, and now my efforts have been rewarded. 

YES, I thought I was retiring.  Instead, I've just shifted gears and I can hardly wait to see what God has in store for me in the future.