After leaving his position as an interventional cardiologist, teacher, international scholar and inventor during a 45 year career at the Mayo Clinic, David Holmes shifted his passions to Creative Writing and Poetry with the goal of keeping the light burning.

This memoir book tells the story of how he came to this dance, born from the marriage of two very different people. “Marriage is never easy and never ever perfect. Along the way, more baggage will need to be shouldered and carried because there will be tragedies, illnesses, births, deaths, religious differences, substance abuse, loneliness and misunderstanding of the rules important to the spouse. In our family, belief in the fundamental goodness of others, acceptance of self and spouse, the ability to laugh at oneself, forbearance, perseverance and sometimes blind fortune were the things that they carried with them.