While a Louis L’Amour style western romance is a departure from the inspirational historical fiction I usually review, the inspiration is there. I’ve known the author all of my life. He is my dad. And if I ever thought it was too late to accomplish a goal or realize a dream, he has blown those excuses away like so many …
DAD AND LOUIS L’AMOUR
I think my dad and Louis L’Amour are a lot alike. But in June of 2010 my dad, at age eighty-seven, lay on a hospital bed prepped for an angiogram. His aortic valve was just about closed, and his cardiologist ordered the test as a first step to open-heart surgery. The heart surgeon would not want any surprises when he …