My inspiration from asking how the greatest generations survived two world wars, and yet here I, we, all were, sliding beneath my feet like a like an oil spill. Three stories are the result.A street urchin dying in a freezing Chicago street, a bar owner anxious about Prohibition, while in Amsterdam, the Nazi invasion squeezes another bar owner, and a crooner in 1950 all tap their tales into this unique book called Piano Diaries.Lavender Martini is a chronicle about a female high school teacher living in a time when she must keep her own identity hidden for society. All this during a period in history when the world had gone mad.Oh! Johnny: the last chance road tripA woman past her mid-life, dares herself to an adventure. To travel across the world to see a man she never met…One does not always know why an impulse insists with such urgency. Suddenly caught inside a force too strong to fight with no ability to deny the impulse. Riptide energy are the words I chose to define my scramble to see Johnny. Being swept up and whisked along, practically dragged by my bootstraps from the end of a speeding train. Not exactly terrifying, yet uncontrollable. This is no movie romance trying for a reunion love affair. I don’t swing that way, and apparently, neither does he. So why Johnny, after all this time?My inspiration from asking how the greatest generations survived two world wars, and yet here I, we, all were, sliding beneath my feet like a like an oil spill. Three stories are the result.