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Monkey Bottom Redux" completes the Monkey bottom Trilogy, which commenced with "Monkey Bottom" and the affair between Navy Admiral Chet Dillon and a female government employee on Naval Base Norfolk, which he commanded. The affair was cut short with the shooting death of his mistress by his wife in a neglected part of the naval base called Monkey Bottom, where the Navy wants to lease land for a casino. The disgraced admiral is forced into retir...

Inspired by well-known 1960's San Francisco poet and lyricist, Rod McKuen, this collection of poems written by Dick Carlsen attempts to capture the essence of McKuen's famous work. The collection employs a broad brush on the wide spectrum of love, loneliness, and romance. The poetry speaks to love's attendant mystique, loneliness, separation, hurt, heartache, anguish, disappointment, longing, and other emotions, including its illusiveness. It ...

In the prequel, "Monkey Bottom", a former Navy Flag Officer, Chet Dillon, is forced out of the Navy after NCIS discovers and investigates an adulterous affair with a female government employee on his base. The admiral's mistress is murdered by his wife, who later dies in a horrific auto accident, caused indirectly by the admiral. In this sequel, Dillon relocates to Puerto Rico to hide from his shame and disgrace. He is hired as a liquor whole...

As a Peter Pan fan, imagine yourself flying in your dreams, without Tink's fairy dust. While flying, you "see" other kids your age also flying. The story employs that fantasy. Eight young boys meet in their Peter Pan-induced flying dreams in the 1950's. Destiny brings them all together in 1964 at Happy Valley College, a Disneyesque Fantasyland and Adventureland campus in northern California, where they form a bond, a tight brotherhood through ...

Nearly everyone is aware of the U. S. Navy's aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, destroyers, and jet fighters. Not many know about the Navy's soft under belly, its base quality of life (QOL) programs designed to keep Sailors fit to fight and emotionally balanced. They can also offer opportunities for reckless decision-making by senior personnel in positions of authority.Admiral Logan has the vision to make available two Naval Base Norfolk p...

How do you know with any certainty that the person you marry is not going to torment you for the next twenty years? Dave Pedersen, an incurable romantic that writes poetry to his lady friends, gives up his long-held bachelorhood when he feels he has met the perfect lifetime mate, and he ties the knot with the cute little brunette, Carla. But Carla is not the sweet, demure girl that Dave believed her to be during their short courtship. The marr...

Happy Valley College will resonate with baby boomers that attended college during the Vietnam War and that dealt with the angst, uncertainties and challenges emanating from that crazy period in time. It is at once a feel good story about college life in the 60's, ala "Animal House" and some of the cynicism of The Catcher in the Rye, but with a strong undercurrent of the Vietnam War and the emotions of a college student dealing with the militar...