Dear Readers: So what’s up with this space? It’s my intention to use it to serialize my work in progress. 

I’m starting with a novel for kids called “When They Went West“.
It’s the story of a boy named Buddy Steele who is obsessed with finding the man he has never known: his father. In the first chapter that follows, we meet Buddy and his family, the Steeles, as they journey west to California. Here’s the story . . .