Carl Douglass has lead a diverse life from being a lumbar jack to a slaughterhouse worker, a teamster, a naval general surgeon and neurosurgeon, to acting as a medical officer in a mental hospital, to serving as a medical humanitarian in fourteen nations, and for the past twenty years, a full-time writer. Chronologically, he is a "senior citizen," but mentally, he is not yet in his dotage. He and his good wife live in the western mountains, and life is good.