These are questions my characters had to consider as they made their own life-changing decisions. These are things I have grappled with in making my own decisions. These are my thoughts.  When does Life begin? Perhaps the answer is in the question. Life begins at the beginning. A sperm enters an egg and becomes one cell. All the information for what comes next is included there in that cell. Amazing, isn't it?  Somehow as that single cell divides, it takes with it the directions for becoming a nerve cell, a brain cell, a skin cell, and on and on and on until that simple single cell becomes the complex creature we know as a baby. From where does that direction come?  I think of Mickey Mouse in Fantasia and imagine the grand orchestration from the Creator creating that marvelous creation of His. All of that begins with a beginning.  But that was not what I was taught. I was taught that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. That a n organism, in the course of its dev...

 Love's Legacy was the title this novel started with fifty years ago. Love in all its forms leaves a lasting legacy. This is one of those stories.  Margaret and Cameron share a love story that defies time and place, war and peace, love and hate. The world changed between the end of World War II and the late sixties. A woman's role became more ambiguous. Women's liberation challenged the mores of the past. Like Margaret, Hayden's world was filled with judgement but with the Pill and the Vietnam War, right and wrong, life and death, became abstractions to be dealt with. But each choice produced consequences. Just where would those consequences bring them?