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May 2025

 

Summertime, and the living is easy…, so says Ella Fitzgerald. With one glance around, I agree with her. My summertime is a smooth ride: kids and grandkids are flying high; school is winding down; our eldest, Emily, is home from a semester in Rome; Gwen and I are enjoying the fruits of our labors of over fifty years of policing for me, and teaching for Gwen. These years have been the cherry on top of the dessert. It is the pleasure we enjoy with our little road trips to the small towns of West Texas and throughout the USA and Israel.

Our book signing ventures have ranged from the steps of the LBJ Library in Austin to the historical plaza at the San Albino Cathedral in Mesilla, New Mexico; to the vast open agricultural fields of Dimmitt, Texas, on to the bookstores of Canyon and Plainview; and eastward to the canyons of New York City and the NYPD First Precinct, the home of the World Trade Center. And last, but certainly not least, to Tiberius, Israel.

  



                           The White Temple Where Jesus Preached                          

Your copy of The Third Dawn: From Bethlehem to Golgotha is available at www.thomasjnichols.com and various bookseller websites.

 

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