Occlusion, a modern sea story explores the complex relationship of a young man coming of age, a captain, a lover and the first woman with whom he learns intimacy.

Henry a student readying a small sailboat to navigate his way to England to meet his college lover, meets an old sea captain. A relationship evolves which, in ways unfathomable will change his life.

Drama, adventure and the thrill of an ocean race, filled with the counterpoint of manhood, murder and mystery counterpoint this masterful story of life, love and lure of adventure



A story of the origins of language. Our first peek into the way language not only allowed ancient man to speak with other, incredibly, how the origin of words and written language actually provided the evolutionary tools for the animal, instinctual brain of man to grow, speak with itself, acquire reflection and ultimately the uniquely human process and capacity for what we have now for centuries known as consciousness.

"Seriously?" was Hannah's first comment when she realized, on their first sailing adventure in Caribbean, they were lost.

"Yup," Henri acknowledged, until a distant Coast Guard ship radioed coordinates and when just hours later they were tracked, crashed and boarded by pirates and again Hannah exclaimed, 'Seriously?'. Henri, fearing for their lives, admonished her outburst with a forefinger to his lips.

"Yup," this time he whispered, "please don't taunt them."

'Latitude' set in the Caribbean, a true and fanciful pirate story studies, in nearly cinematic detail the complex idiosyncrasies of this still immature couple, naked in their emotional fright and open to the vulnerabilities all experience. more often over years than in a single day.