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I Want to Be a Whale Doctor $11 The inspiration for this book came from my granddaughter, Maggie. She is a kind and gentle person who truly cares about all living creatures; even spiders are gently captured in her house and released outside. While vacationing at Cape Cod in Massachusetts, she heard that a whale had been injured by a boat. She promptly announced she wanted to be a whale doctor so she could help whales get better. She provided many of the ideas on how an eight-year-old would medically examine a whale. She has an active imagination!I am a retired former executive with an international insurance company with plenty of experience writing dull business articles. This is my first foray into writing a book—something I had always wanted to do. Reading books with my children and grandchildren was always a wonderful shared experience. Writing a slightly fictionalized book that is hopefully informative, interesting, and amusing to young children was even more fun. I hope the book gives children an appreciation for these wonderful animals that live in our oceans.

Perfect In Every Way $11.35 We waited until graduate school was finished before starting our family. Our first son was declared to be a perfect specimen by our doctor, but doubts began to cloud our sky just as we were expecting our second son. Would the old family plague strike one or perhaps both of our sons? With deep resolve, we determined to help them find full and useful lives despite any physical handicap.Ron, our first born, was a real joy to watch as he explored all that life had to offer. His first love was model trains, but as his legs grew weaker, he moved from a passion for a clean environment to a determination to find a way to play an active role in the broadcasting world. We marveled at his ability to listen to TV and radio at the same time, and yet fully understand what was presented on both media. When his strength would not allow him to fulfill that dream, he turned to ways to make life more rewarding for the disadvantaged in our communities. The loss we felt when his life was cut short was devastating, yet we were able to celebrate with him the wonderful usefulness of his limited days on the earth which he loved.David, son number two, seemed determined to experience everything that life had to offer as though he thought his days might also be limited. In short order he moved from a go cart to a sail boat and then to a riding lawn mower and to his own automobiles. In his young adult years, he first found joy using his gifted singing voice, but he moved on to a brief experience as a paralegal with the US Attorney’s office. In addition, he achieved rapid recognition as a successful manager of a retail shoe outlet and proved his worth while building pool tables. At last he followed a career representing the health insurance business, discovering lasting satisfaction in providing protection for business owners and their workers. This has provided a comfortable living for his family as well as giving him a feeling that he is adding to the security of others. How could any

This Old Boat $75.36 Let’s say you’re a typical low-paid working stiff. You’ve sailed small boats all your life, you’ve saved a little money–you’re finally ready for a real cruising boat. You drop in on Tadd, your friendly neighborhood yacht broker, who is more than happy to sell you that brand-new Trickledown 32 for only $90,000, plus a few optional extras like anchors, sails, cushions, a compass, instruments–stuff like that; say, $115,000 ready to sail. One hundred and fifteen thousand . . . dollars ? Not to worry, says Tadd. Only 20% down and 10 years of easy payments and you’re off into the sunset. Let’s see, that’s $23,000 down and, at 10% interest, only $1,215.79 per month–plus insurance of course. Send me a postcard from Tahiti. How much per month? That’s half my salary! Don’t you have anything in my price range? Tadd glances conspicuously at his Rolex, sighing, and points to a characterless Clorox jog with a spindly mast–a hyperthyroid daysailer with bunks for the seven dwarfs; NOT what you had in mind! And then you see it, in the back of the yard, varnish hanging in strips off weather-beaten trim, rigging frayed, sails ripped and stained, dank interior with dangling wires and scurrying anonymous inhabitants. But underneath all the squalor you see the lines of a real cruising boat–a sturdy hull with a sprightly sheer from the pen of a Philip Rhodes or a Tom Gillmer–a fiberglass boat built back when craftsmanship still meant something. You remember when you bought your house–it looked a lot like this boat, and you and your all-thumbs husband managed to breathe life into it over time, painting, papering, spackling– lots of spackling. This boat has possibilities. How much? you ask. You’re kidding, right? says Tadd, flicking a bit of cobweb from his spotless Breton Reds. Take it for, say, $8,000? Sold. Well, now you’ve got it home, but Bob and Norm aren’t there every weekend to help guide you through this restoration

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