title: The Checkbook
author: Philip Salembier
description: I started writing novels 25 years ago and along the way, I have also written a book of songs collected from a life of song writing, and a nomads journal, Images of Place. I started writing Sunday mornings in my small office off the kitchen and wrote daily while traveling America with my wife Janice and faithful beagle Sydney looking for a place to call home while doing volunteer work along the way. We found a home in the mountains of Colorado. We buried the faithful beagle on the hill. We have three children, Eli, Winter and Chaz spread out across the land, and seven grandchildren. I spent my professional life as an architect. I spend my re-tired life writing and building our home in the mountains.
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