Smelling the barn: A novel about coming home

Smelling the barn, is a novel about home, life in modern day rural America and the ties that bind families together. While no person or family is entirely perfect and free from human frailty and faults, Steve and Sally have spent the last 48 years of their marriage learning how work around and with the other's way of dealing with life and challenges. Steve, facing the business end of turning seventy, feels he has little time to compromise with the encroaching world and its many dilemmas. And this leads him into make one fatal decision that will forever change his life, his wife's life and the security of his home and family that he has spent a lifetime carefully building. Smelling the barn, takes a deep dive into the day to day lives of average Americans, people that are dismissed by coastal elites as nothing more than "Flyover populations" who hold no value in the important world they live in, and are nothing more that surplus populations of redneck truck drivers and subservient brainwashed wives with no opinions of their own. Yet when we take a close look at Steve and Sally, we see the importance of their lives to their community and to the nation that we build collectively by people like them.