J.E. EDWARDS

At nearly eighty years of age, I have held many jobs in many industries. I have worked with many thousands of people, and found most to be very interesting.

I am a Photographer and Artist, the Photo you see is a painting I did of my Great Grandmother a proud Sioux Native American.

As a youth I worked in my fathers grocery store, I became a Meat Cutter, Produce worker, Deli Worker. Later I worked for some of the largest grocery companies in California.

From that point I switched to Computers, building, repairing and programming, after that I moved to Real Estate which I did for forty years while pursuing other interests. I got a B .A . in Paralegal Studies and Became a Paralegal, Notary and a Legal Document Authorizer.

I was a smoker and wanted to quit, I went to a Hypnotherapist, Dr. Gould she was a psychiatrist and I quit smoking after one session. I was determined to find out how this was possible when I had tried every other method possible.

So, back to school I went and I got a B.S. in Hypnotherapy, and opened my own practice.

I began writing at the age of eight, poems and short stories. A so called friend stole one of my stories which he entered into the Eight Grade Writing Essay Competition, and he won $500.

I have been writing stories since then.

I hope to be writing well into my hundreds, God willing.

I am concerned that with the current counter culture may but a gag on my writing and others as well.

One of my distant uncles Samuel L. Clements (Mark Twain) was a most prolific writer, and his books have been blocked from schools, which is a terrible thing to do.