Taillights On The Road To Healing

“Taillights, on the Road to Healing,” is the memoir of a retired therapist and car aficionado, who frames critical events in his life with the numerous cars he has owned. More than a collection of car stories, this suspenseful memoir weaves sexual trauma, grief and the search for a relatable spirituality into a gripping love story.

While carrying the scars of adolescent sexual abuse, the author falls in love with his soon to be twenty-year-old wife when she was the sole survivor of her family’s fatal auto accident.  On the day of her parent’s death, adulthood shook their lives like a violent electrical storm.  Armed with little more than faith and devotion, they believed love alone would be enough to outrun their traumatic pasts.  But as the years unfolded, healing would require more than endurance – it demanded a reckoning.

“Taillights” illustrates how long it can take to heal the traumas of youth by tracking the evolution of this couple’s psychological, intellectual, and spiritual development over 30 years. Using humor to lighten the load, the journey to wholeness becomes a transformative adventure.

| Published by Koehler Books, Coming in 2026