Museum of the Mind

Randy Palmer, former Vietnam War photographer and devoted father is working on a project to find a use for the giant "Power Plant" building, which was sitting vacant in Baltimore's Inner Harbor in 1993. Randy is falsely accused of sexual harassment by two women co-workers trying to gain an advantage for promotions, and soon after he is fired. The novel follows Randy's adventures as a newly separated father in adapting to single life and reinventing himself as an artist. He is helped along the way by a black attorney who has been single a long time and is his best friend. The novel was designed to be a movie and is highly visual. The reader will visit many of Baltimore's famous landmarks, some of which are no longer in existence. Along the way, Randy meets a catholic married woman, Susan, who is his soul mate but is married to an alcoholic abusive husband. Will Randy and Susan ever get together, and what happens to Randy's relationship with his son and daughter after his wife leaves him? The book is based in part on the author's life as a single father for more than 20 years in the greater Baltimore area.