Lori's Jeep

About the Book

LORI’S JEEP

April 2000

This is a story about a thirtyish woman, Lori Bearden, and her eight year old son. They live in a town south of Denver, Colorado that has been engulfed by the population that continues to pour into the Rocky Mountains Front Range every year from the West and East Coasts.

Better employment is the name of her game, and she lands a job in the U. S. Postal Service delivering mail to the farmers and landed gentry on the eastern plains of Colorado. She buys an old, forlorn postal jeep to make her appointed rounds on the plains, and later meets a man who makes his living repairing these ancient jeeps. They soon discover that they need one-another.

Then Lori discovers that her jeep repairman, Rafael Hernandez, has a second occupation much different from his first occupation, and she learns to understand and cherish a man who lives two lives.

About the Author

Richard Braden is a retired aeronautical engineer and computer scientist; he has spent most of his adult life on the Rocky Mountain Front Range. This was where Lori’s Jeep got its start, and it exists today in the minds of his middle daughter, Lori. The real Lori’s Jeep is full of rust holes and mud and bondo, but continues to perform for the United States Postal Service.