Life is often viewed as a continuum that is judged by its ultimate outcome. In contrast, native Americans view life as a journey over four symbolic hills.

Birth to teenage;

Teenage to early manhood;

Early manhood to age maturity;

(and most important) The Fourth Hill

In "Journey on the Four Hills," the author relates the lessons learned in his life's journey.

In relating the way love and fear bent his life, G.R.G.M. leaves a powerful, personal legacy that gives insight into a spiritual life and the lessons that shaped it. "Journey on the Four Hills" defies characterization: part autobiography, part self-help, part spiritual, and part just plain wisdom.

From its founding 1736, Bellevue Hospital has been a dumping ground into which a city poured its poor, elderly, and dying. What makes the oldest hospital in the United States unique is that Bellevue is a place from which no one in need is turned away.

"Bellevue Diary" is a collection of short stories borne out of Dr. Monif 's year of internship that collectively pays tribute to this great hospital.

""Bellevue Diary" is mosaic of short snippets of stories. Mosaics have to be near perfect to work. Ironically, this one comes close. What is surprising that it works on multiple levels: a historical characterization of a place and time and the impact of the Bellevue Hospital on a young physician's professional and spiritual growth into which is woven a thesis of death's ultimate meaning. The pieces all come together to make this mosaic good reading." -Peter Firchow, PhD
Former Professor of English - University of Minnesota