A literary bouquet is what you will enjoy between the covers of this delightful collection of experiences from the life of Barry Holcomb. Short stories, essays, light humor, and a few parables and mini-sermons await your rumination. Spanning four decades, the stories come straight from the heart and are sure to strike pleasant chords in your mind. Each short piece stands as a beautiful flower alone, but together they make a grand colorful anthology which will tickle your fantasies and spill over into your imagination. Your heart will be touched with a sense of awe - at times wiping a tear from your eye - and at others bursting out in a deep belly laugh. As you travel through the decades you will meet a wife, parents, friends, and loved ones. You can surmise from the stories how each one came to affect the author and complete the bouquet of his colorful experience. You might classify the work as autobiographical, but it is more a record of a life journey, always pointing to the Grand Designer and Creator of life itself. You can read a single story in a few minutes and suffer no loss by closing the book for the day, but you will probably find yourself so absorbed by each tale that you cannot wait to leap into the next story. A Handful of Flowers is definitely a book you will want to share - either by the retelling of its stories - or by mailing a copy to a family member, an old friend, or a coworker in the hospital. This reverie is one you will never regret reading.