Roads Less Traveled

How would you like to live in a country where there’s low unemployment, high wages, excellent schools, free college, free universal health care, low crime, and plenty of natural beauty? Where the average person lives to be 83, speaks at least three languages, and enjoys pure mountain water right from the tap? Where public transportation is everywhere and it’s efficient enough to set your watch by it? Where gun ownership is encouraged and mass shootings are almost unheard of? Where nearly every car is less than three years old, and the roads are engineering marvels? Where, in fact, nearly everything looks clean and new, from the gleaming train stations to the modern airports to the…bomb shelters? Yes, the country I’m talking about even has a nuclear fallout bunker for every single citizen within it. Doesn’t that sound like a nice, safe place to live?

Culture rots from within. True, outside forces can also cause a decline in moral standards, especially in the wake of a war, and perhaps this is what has happened to Vienna, my most beloved city. There is a culture war going on, and based on what I saw here recently, Christianity and Western Civilization are losing. Badly.

I have written my second novel, “A Christmas Story.” Here’s a summary from the book cover:

“A Christmas Story” is the adventurous tale of three young brothers who discover a hidden icon while staying at their grandparent’s house over the holidays. Intrigued by the mysterious image of St. Nicholas on the picture, they secretly drive an old snowmobile into town to find out more about it. There, they encounter a giant Russian, who recognizes the true value of the object, and he and his henchman kidnap one of the boys, leaving only the two remaining siblings and Santa Claus himself to save the hostage! Yet even after a daring rescue attempt, a magical sleigh ride, and a wild chase through town, the boys are even more surprised to find that things are not always as they seem, and that even the most outwardly monstrous people are not really monsters at all. “A Christmas Story” is written with a humorous, contemporary flair, but the underlying message, about the magic of Christmas and the miraculous healing power of faith and love, is timeless.

It’s available on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094LJ5CXR/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1