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About the Book

On a lovely spring evening in May some years ago, Thomas Bilheimer returned home to discover that his home had been utterly destroyed by fire. The clothes on his back and his trusty dog Jack were all that remained. The process of rebuilding the physical structure was both challenging and arduous but coming to terms with such loss in a human sense proved to be the largest task.

The author subsequently lives in an RV on site through nine long months, essentially camping outdoors during a challenging Pennsylvania fall and deep, cold winter. With the help of wonderful friends and a mysterious songstress, loss turned to gain and a new dwelling of beauty emerged. Yet in a larger sense, a new life of enlarged and sharpened vision took its place in triumph amid the wreckages of past experience.

About the Author

A native Pennsylvanian, Thomas Bilheimer holds a BA degree in history from Moravian College and a MSed degree from Temple University. Post graduate study includes a Fulbright grant for study in Cairo, Egypt and an NEH grant for Middle Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He has taught history, education and anthropology in high school and college both at the undergraduate and graduate degree levels. He is currently retired and lives in the Pocono Mts. of eastern Pennsylvania.