The Commode Companion: Exposing the innermost thoughts of animals, birds, bugs, butterflies, and frogs - Softcover

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The author of The Commode Companion has been a professional photographer, an attorney specializing in international corporate law, a volunteer executive running a not-for-profit dedicated to housing the homeless, a manager of large and small businesses and, lately, an author and Master Gardener. He first published short stories as an English Major from Yale. Finding the double-digit pay for that work insufficient to support a wife and one and a half children, he went to law school in hopes of finding better paying work. Fortunately, that proved to be the case. Failing miserably at retirement, the author reverted to his early love, writing, and has produced, to date, five books: Public Information about a boy who finds himself in in the Korean War; Pistils and Poetry, a books which juxtaposes Elizabethan poetry with photographs of flowers; Master Gardener a satirical novel about a group of Master Gardeners taking on BIG AG. His third novel, published in August 2014, is High Andes. The central narrative follows Wylie Cypher, in his mid-forties and suffering from a serious mid-life crisis, and his daughter, Mercy, as they try to elude various villains chasing them across the White Mountains of Peru. The story deals with armed insurrection by Maoist guerillas, smuggling ancient artifacts, "disappearances" of troublemakers, a five hundred year old child mummy, and the CIA. Discovering that his photographs of animals with irreverent captions attracted notice in the social media, Margenau took respite from his next novel and created The Commode Companion, a photography book for adults. Rolf Margenau lives in rural New Jersey with his wife, three dogs, a 1932 Chrysler convertible, and a flower garden favored by monarch butterflies. He is now working on his fourth novel. Tentatively titled National Parks, the story recounts what happens, in the near future, when Congress decides to resuscitate a bankrupt America by privatizing its National Parks.