Limericks

Written over many years and enjoyed by family and friends, Jim has decided to publish these limericks for his eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. As Jim has stated, "A limerick is to me a form of poetry, moving to a natural rhythm within a precise framework. It starts with observing a person, place, or event then reaching a conclusion. Tied together with clever rhymes and wrapped in a sense of humor, limericks provide a writer with a challenge to organize facts, manipulate words, and provide the wit to give insight and meaning to what is often mundane"

Jim retired from Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) and resided in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, for nearly fifty years but now lives in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. He and his late wife, Lois, had four children. While James, Patricia, and Steven still live in the Drexel Hill area, their daughter Kathleen died in 1994, at age twenty-nine. A Korean War air force veteran, Jim served in Wiesbaden, Germany, from 1951 to 1954. He has a BS degree in economics from Villanova University and a MA degree in liberal arts from Temple University. Jim has published several children's stories, a book of essays, a collection of poetry, and The Last Field Marshal, a book on World War II.