Three-book Plan

Before I left Hawaii way back then, I hoped I would someday write three books and I planned to use these titles: "Earthprobe", "Big Flow's Cosmic Repair Works" and "The Imhotep Construction Company".

I wrote the first two books and published them myself because no commercial publisher was interested.

I liked doing it all myself and even called my one-man publishing company “The Little Red Hen” after the chicken in the children's story, who not only "does it all herself", but who also reaps all the rewards herself. I recently re-wrote that old hen fable though with a new twist: the entire barnyard of animal friends end up helping the hen and all together enjoy the bread, the fruit of their labor.If you would like to see this book, click here. 

“Earthprobe” described my first around-the-world-with-a-backpack journey. I made that trip because I wanted to see for myself what the world was like and I wanted to visit some of the great building projects of ancient times and maybe meet some interesting people and experience some cultures different from my own. I had 800 copies of Earthprobe printed; sold a few and gave the rest away.

Next I published “Big Flow’s Cosmic Repair Works” in an edition of only 19 copies—as a six foot long paper scroll packaged in a cool little handmade triangular-shaped cardboard box. In this “book” I told about my life in Snug Harbor, California, recovering from the adventure described in “Earthprobe”. I gave these scrolls away to family and friends and kept none for myself. It was done so many years ago that now I hardly remember what I said—but I do remember writing the  last page in a parking lot on the Arizona Hopi Indian reservation in the ruins of my California licensed camper which had been 

 torched by some drug-seeking Indian boys. So far as I know none of these "books" has survived.

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