Catching Stars in Jars

Long-retired author Elijah Dirk has lived a long life. Nearing his 100th birthday, he picks up a worn book and begins reading to a bedridden fellow nursing home resident and the eager staff who gather round to listen to a love story most could only dream of. 

Decades ago, Elijah was a poor midwestern boy with a gift for baseball and a heart full of hope. Maggie Montgomery was the girl from Boston he could never stop loving—rich, headstrong, and always just out of reach. Life pulled them apart more than once: first by war, then by silence, and finally by time. Despite building separate lives, they always found their way back to one another… eventually.

Told through the eyes of a man revisiting the love that shaped him, Catching Stars in Jars is a poignant, nostalgic novel about memory, aging, and the beauty of what almost was. A love story not of grand declarations but of quiet devotion—of remembering when, even when the world forgets.