Ts Bola

The Practical Poet

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781514435144
• ISBN-10: 1514435144
• Artikelnr.: 44509285

Autorenporträt

My pen name is TS Bola, and on 22 December 2015, I will reach seventy-eight years of age. I was born in Texas, and as such, I am a genuine Texan! I grew up as a rough-and-tumble type of child, liking to play football and did so for several years. I enrolled in two different junior colleges and studied in five universities. But after the second junior college experience, I joined the U.S. Army for three years and spent two of those years in Munich, Germany. After that, I got married and started to study again in a university. After many years of studying, I have attained four university degrees: BA, MEd, EdS, and PhD in psychology. These degrees and extensive work experiences have given me many experiences for writing. I worked at various jobs to pay for my education, including in the West Texas oilfields as a truck driver, construction worker, roustabout, and roughneck. As a professional, I have worked as a teacher in public schools in Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, teaching in the areas of Spanish, general science, physical and health education, special education and also worked as an educational diagnostician and psychologist. In New Mexico, I worked as a coach in the sports of football, wrestling, and track and field. In the 1990s I worked eight years as clinical director in a Texas Juvenile Prison. I formally retired in 2001 but have still done some occasional contract work in the area of psychology/counseling, as well as teaching some classes at a university.