Reverie Within is a reflection on the days I spent in college. I was in school at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. The book begins as I left college with only a few courses left to graduate. I found a place in the inner city area of Syracuse. It was the beginning of summer in the year 1976. The place I got was rather small. So small that I used to lay in a closet. I was gratefully down the street from the apartment of a school friend of mine by the name of Tommy. I am pictured in the beginning of the book at his place drinking cold beers in the heat of the evening. As the story goes on I write about a video play I directed called Shadow of the Glenn. The actress and three actors I directed became fast friends. We spent a lot of time together including a visit to a spring fed lake on the side of town, swimming and barbecuing. I make friends with my next door neighbor, whose name is Cindy. Together we leave our apartment building at 4:00 am in the morning to drive up to the mountains of upstate New York to go fishing. I reach back in time to the year before and write about the girl I was in love with. Her name was Amy. It was a heart-crunching relationship: one that was hard to get over. The later part of the book is the reading of a journal I kept on my trip to Europe. A trip I took to get away from Amy and everything else. After reading the journal I decide its time to leave the Syracuse area for home. I tell a close friend named Tony "I'm going home." He agrees it's a good idea. After a big party with Tony I drive home, and the book ends with me pulling into my driveway in Parma Heights, Ohio.

"My Thoughts and Other Spirits" is a compilation of short stories, poetry and song lyrics. The short stories are about various subjects. There are several spooky stories such as 'The Old Haunt', about a man who purchases a haunted house and falls in love with the attractive female ghost who haunts the place. 'The Screeching Laugh' in which the main character is devoured by a monster who is lurking for years in the woods behind his house. Aside from scary stories, there are tragic stories such as 'The Long Sleep' in which a man is injured after a fall from a horse and spends nearly thirty years as a vegetable, then suddenly wakes after the clot in his brain dissolves. Another tragedy is 'Katie'. It is about a good Catholic girl who falls in love with a Protestant man. After the man propose marriage, the father of the future bride insists there will be no marriage. The father breaks the marriage up. A couple of years later the father insists Katie marry a Catholic man who works with him. The marriage ends in a bad case of domestic violence. The poetry is mostly free verse. There are, however, some rhyming poems. Some of the poems deal with love. There are poems of the love of life. Some deal with the relationship with the spiritual world. My poetry has been called Christian Existentialism, as well as metaphysical. You can choose for yourself what it is. My real intent, which will especially realize with my song lyrics, is to entertain people.