Robert Wintner

Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of the author's harrowing experience of an aneurysm and his road to recovery....

Critical mass may be a minimum for chain reaction or a maximum for stability. Either way, things go off. Collective consciousness and common behaviors accelerate in chaos. Subtle change builds to drastic consequence.

The year when everything needed to be experienced and tried, when innocence was tempted, played, and lost.1969 was that pivotal year for the baby boomers.....

A collection of secular stories, underscoring Christianity’s obtrusion on others. In these examples, Southern Indiana long ago, a lovely natural setting and sometimes harsh backdrop for a young Jew. History is rife with abuse. Personal baggage is unpacked here, no offense intended.

A young man of promise in the late '60s veers to LSD and cosmic light. Natural intelligence takes him to operational management until...harsh truth drops like a turd in the punch bowl, a small one, but still. Would you like a cup? Find out....

With no capacity to accept, adapt, or move on, Ravi is stuck. Minna and Leihua, the wife and daughter, commiserate, but they leave for LA for showbiz. Justin, the son, advises wisely and foolishly before heading back to the yacht-racing circuit....

Whirlaway is mind and body adventure of the double-edge 80s, beyond idealism to Columbian snuff for confidence in the short term. It cost a bit but beat depression for a bit. Nature began its deep descent in the 80s. Population and trash had doubled since the 50s, along with traffic and growth.

Ravid Rockulz has a good life as a dive leader in Hawaii: good friends, good times, plenty of willing female tourists....

Toucan Whisper, Toucan Sing is the story of two brothers, one a gregarious gigolo, the other a mute psychopath who loves nature. Both work at a resort hotel, as does Lyria, betrothed to the joyous one yet drawn to the silent one. In the tangle is a murder on the beach and extrication, Mexican style.

Robust yet complex, these vintage domestics sparkle on the palate with innuendo and overtone. Fruity, nutty, buttery in part; the oak is constrained, the acid balanced with an easy follow and hardly a recoil on the pungent recollection....

Reefdog is an adventure of a book about Oceania and the accelerating race between nature and humanity. Ravi Rockulz, dive leader, grows weary, pushing 40 and still lugging tanks....

Touch of the Unknown Rider picks up 20 years down the road from where The Modern Outlaws left off. Buster Fetteroff is strong in purchasing power but adrift in life and love, motivation and destination. Seeking something more, he dreams of beautiful wilderness....

The Modern Outlaws are riders of a new century. We laugh like honest men at a rotary luncheon. We shake hands on our new business, understanding that it doesn’t mean shit, not one speck of it, because getting lost and becoming someone else begins with the utterance of your very name....

When Waties Waring left his wife of 30 years for a "Yankee spitfire", he dropped a turd into the local teacup. Charleston (SC) society banished him forever....

1969 was pivotal for baby boomers, young, innocent and facing a needless war. On a grand tour, youth united for peace, resisting war, living the parables of high time. Some will remember. Some can’t.