Personal Pronouns - Softcover

   The spring of 1970, my draft number was 88, I passed my physical: I had a free ticket to Viet Nam. But I also had a contract to teach school in the fall, and somehow the draft board granted me an exemption. The fates determined I was to be a teacher.   Twenty years later and starting to burn out, I began writing about my experiences inside and outside the classroom. What bothered me most was not the interaction with the kids, it turns out I was pretty good at that. No, it was the perception of teachers from those who should know better ,the administration and the board of education. To some, teachers were selfish, private contractors, to others we were serfs. I knew otherwise, and wrote The Faculty Lounge Stories.   I found that I liked to write, and that it was therapeutic. I wrote more stories, sold some, got a couple published, then went at it full time when I retired. I decided my work needed more plot and less spleen, and cranked out five novels. I couldn't find an agent or a publisher, and went back to teaching when I was offered a job at a different school.   When I retired the second time, I re-worked two of the novels, and published one, Personal Pronouns. Now I am working on a sequel.

David Allen Edmonds began writing his Faculty Lounge Stories after teaching his first twenty years. Now retired after another twenty, he lives in NE Ohio with his wife, Marie Mirro Edmonds, babysitting their grandchildren, and ruing the inevitable demise of the adverb. Really.