The Attunement

Gary B. Haley began life in a military family that occasionally moved to new towns like Denver, Kansas City and Detroit. His young family happily found their way back home to Fort Worth, Texas in the late ’60s. It was there that he, his older brother and later his younger brother grew up, and the Beatles song ＂Paperback Writer＂ inspired him to write. Living near Carswell Air Force Base meant tolerating the thunderous, deafening roar of B-52 bombers lumbering overhead a mere four or five thousand feet. While the lives of the bomber crews on hours-long training missions seemed to interest Haley, the planes were so low and loud at times that the brothers could not even hear each other’s shouts. Such an environment often seems to sever much of the day into twenty or thirty minute tolerable fragments. A break from the relentless chaos came with a move to a waterfront home on a quiet cove of a nearby lake, where Haley finished high school. Despite the better lifestyle of country living, he ultimately moved back to Fort Worth and accepted a civil service job on the Air Force base so that he could work his way through college, support his new family, and do his part to support America’s military. During his 15 years in the defense industry, Haley found himself a single parent and did his best to meet the challenges of trying to raise two daughters while working a job that required some international travel. Instead of sleeping at night, he often worked part time ghost-writing contracts and did homework for a software engineering degree. His daughters have long since grown up and, between them, have three bright kids of their own. Haley moved to Denver in 2005 where he married a brilliant doctor, works as a software engineer, and spends some of his free time writing in some of his favorite Rocky Mountain hideaways.