Michael Jerry Tupa

Tales around the Coal-Burning Stove (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Who's to say whether fiction or non-fiction contain the greatest truths? Like the blind men each groping a different part of the elephant to try to describe the whole, so it might be that Frederick Langridge's great observation "Two men look out through the same bars; One sees the mud, and one the stars" is the axle around which turns individual perspective and hence individual variances in the ethereal realm lablled reality. It might be that short stories of which this work is a compilation told in the province of so-called make-believe, or, in some cases, blossoming out of the story of experiences, might more truly reflect better human foibles, weaknesses, strengths, shortcomings, comprehensions, flaws, love, judgement, epiphanies, inspirations, endurance, adaptability, hopelessness and hope than self-serving or limited histories, biographies, auto-biographies and commentaries. I pray that I have written something that might enrich, entertain or inspire readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Jerry Tupa
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005842147
• Artikelnr.: 70320225

Autorenporträt

A native Californian, I've resided in seven different states -- spread out from California to South Carolina -- as well as in Italy and stint in Japan (U.S. Marines).
For more than 30 years I've worked as a newspaper journalist -- mostl of that time as a sports writer, although I also garnered significant experience as a police/courts beat reporter.
More than three dozen of my poems have appeared in several different literary journals; I've also self-published four volumes of poetry/short stories. Some of my most cherished honors/accomplishments/opportunities is being the sports editor of a sports section twice named by the Oklahoma Press Association as the sports section of the year in our circulation division, receiving an honorable discharge from the Marines following four years of active duty, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Weber State, living nearly two years in Italy (church service) among the Italians and learning the language, interviewing a Native American U.S. Olympic champion, receiving the Joseph Orengo Annual Award for sportsmanship and sports contributions in Oroville, Calif.
I've also won my age division (25-29) at a 5K run road race in Memphis, Tenn.; shook Ronald Reagan's hand in 1990; interviewed numerous pro and high-level college athletes, including at least two former Heisman Trophy winners (Archie Griffin and Jason White); written a full-length history of American Legion Baseball in Bartlesville, Okla.; and enjoyed numerous other once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to interview some of sports' most significant personalities from the past half-century.