The Invincible Mom

The following are selected extracts from the novel The Invincible Mom: "So I bought me a wife for $28! That was a real good deal." "No, Mr. Payson, you didn't buy a wife. You just bought the right to have a deduction on our taxes as long as you are properly supporting me. It you don't properly support me then I file my own tax return and you won't get that deduction anymore." "You're brutal!" "No, Bart, I am a realist. I warned you about getting drunk and you keep doing it. I don't care what the excuse is I will not sleep with a drunk." "I would love to enjoy having you in bed with me as long as you don't stink from drinking beer. I told you that before we married and you made me a promise. Have you forgotten so quickly?" "I worked hard for that money. I have a right to spend it the way I wish." "Perhaps, so. But remember, I can always start filing my own tax return." "You're cruel!" "The FBI found your husband in California. He has a job which is how they tracked him down. He is also living with a girl and told the special agents that he was not going back to Michigan but wanted a divorce." "He wants a divorce and he shall have it." And when Mom told her daughter they were going to move to Jacksonville, FL, "We can work on making new, nice memories. Would you like that?" "How do you make nice memories?" "By living a happy life." And they did. Read how...
About the Author: Raised in an Army family and having resided in Europe and Asia, I have gained a great respect for the variance in cultures with whom we, as Americans, associate. A mathematics graduate with a psychology minor I have worked most of my professional life in finding ways to build computer systems that more accurately fulfill the needs and thought patterns of their human users. Later I found myself writing descriptions of these systems and instructing people how to use them efficiently and effectively. But deep down inside, I wanted to write my own books. Perhaps, influenced by my military background, I like to travel. In that I had many assignments that moved me about the forty-eight states, we bought a 1958 Flxible intercity motor coach in 1965. I contracted with a local GMC dealer who replaced the Buick in-line engine (a gutless wonder) with a new GMC V-6. Another contractor stripped the interior and replaced it with two chambers: a bed/bath area and a lounge/office area. The lounge was furnished to allow the children to also use it as a bedroom when they were traveling with me. When I retired I sold the Flxible and bought a customized MCI motor coach from a wanna-be country singer and his unhappy wife. This was better equipped for the entire family plus it was significantly roomier. We traveled all over the lower forty-eight in this coach and thoroughly enjoyed the recreation as well as the education. Then the price of fuel went up, and up and up. I decided we needed something that would allow us to continue travelling but would get more than six miles per gallon. We sold the coach to an up-coming entertainer and purchased a Ford F250 pickup truck (four-door, of course) and a Sundance fifth-wheel trailer with three slide-outs. Now we really had room plus much more economical transportation. I have written many travel logs. I have also used what I learned about the places I have visited and the variety of people I have met in writing my novels. I enjoy writing and feel it has helped me avoid the onset of Alzheimer's. It has also helped increase my circle of friends and acquaintances (and I don't indulge in 'social websites' to collect them). To date I have written thirty-six novels (without the sex and violence you encounter so frequently these days), thirty of which have been published as paperbacks and many of them as e-books. They are listed and described on my RWMasters.com website. My e-mail address is: author@rwmasters.com