Joe Batarse is a retired civil servant worker for the City of Los Angeles and Long Beach City. Joe currently lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Susan, and daughter, Marley. Joe is formally trained in philosophy and has an advanced degree in Training and Development and a master’s in Public Administration. This is Joe’s first novel.
Joe Batarse is a retired civil servant worker for the City of Los Angeles and Long Beach City. Joe currently lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Susan, and daughter, Marley. Joe is formally trained in philosophy and has an advanced degree in Training and Development and a master’s in public administration. This is Joe’s first novel.
All things are possible in a contingent universe, but admittedly, a coincidence of this magnitude would have been miraculous.
But such coincidences do occur, even against seemingly impossible odds. After all, someone eventually wins the Lotto despite the astronomical odds. Three hundred-million-to-one, yet there’s a winner. Strange, but odds only seem meaningful before, but not after the outcome. Once the winner’s announced, ‘probability’ be damned, it’s meaningless, a void construct, since it did not apply to the winner, because if it had, they wouldn’t have won.
I have been fortunate to have met people at critical times in my life who shaped my worldview and inspired my curiosity. My childhood friend Cameron Jamison and his older brother James were instrumental in exposing me to ideas, music, and art. Then I met my lifelong best friend Louis Suncin forty-five years ago in college. Our conversations have always inspired me. Thank you, Louis, for your time and amazing insight. I also owe great thanks to my sister Brenda, who for years encouraged me to write despite my own deep reservations.
My thanks would be incomplete if I didn’t acknowledge my wife, Susan, who always supported my dreams and gave me the space to develop my writing, and to my sweet daughter, Marley, for always putting me on the spot. “Dad, when are you going to finish your book?” She was my little driver, and I am very thankful for her persistence. Lastly, I’d like to thank my father, who serves as the basis for a formative figure in the novel and in my life. And I will always be eternally grateful to my many friends who’ve known of my dreams but kept quiet and built up my confidence to bring my dream to fruition. Thank you all.
We all have moments that stop us in our tracks. A quiet evening, a sudden thought, and out of nowhere comes a big question. Why
We often think of history as something in a textbook. Dates, names, and events that feel distant and separate from our modern lives. But what
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