Friends, I’m scheduled to have Open Heart Bypass surgery on Tuesday. I am in good hands, grateful for this chance to be healthy and for the truly wonderful and total support of my wife, daughter, friends and readers.

I am postponing publication of my e-book, “Who Speaks For The Carriage horses: The Future Of Animals In Our World” for a week or two. I trust my good doctors and wonderful nurses and will have much to share next week. For a writer the only true tragedy is the absence of life. I am very lucky to be swimming in the river of life. I am at peace and frightened and excited.

See you very shortly and thanks for your love, interest and support. Next week: “Tell-Tale Heart: A Journal of Recovery” begins right here in words and pictures.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez says life requires us to give birth and rebirth to our selves again and again.

I’m on it.