Hey friends and family - Some of you have asked about the progress on my children's book "The Best At Nothing - A Fable". I have been busy working with my literary agent, (Sterling Lord Literistic in New York - they are huge), and we are getting the manuscript ready for submission to targeted publishers. I have also been contacted by a well-respected and richly experienced illustrator who is interested in providing illustrations for this book. His name is Mark Swan and he is doing other illustration work for my book producer, Writewise. They let him see my manuscript and illustration plan and he sketched the illustration below, depicting the swimming competition scene from my story. I may not be the one who gets to decide who will be my illustrator, (publishers often make that call), but I would be interested in your opinions of his work.

Donna upgrades...

Pretty nice...no excuses to stop visiting me!!!!

Mitch playing hookie! Just wait till December 20th.

Graduation Day!
As Student Body Pres., Rachel gave a speach.

June report

Wes was pretty much a bachelor for the month of June. Rachel and Audrey went on a two-week church history tour. Donna went with some girlfriends to New York City to take in some Broadway plays and some scenery. Then Rachel and Donna went to Detroit for the Little People of America convention. Everyone is having fun and doing well. Here is a photo of grandson Carson on Grandpa's Sportster. The "Shorty on the Sporty" was very upset when we tried to take him away from his new ride.

First draft of cover art for Wes' children's book

This is the first draft of the cover art for my book. The illustrator forgot to add the subtitle "A Fable" underneath the title and he misspelled my last name - otherwise.... What do you folks think?