Author Description

To the casual reader, Hey, Milkman! is a faithful recounting of the daily routine duties of a small-town milkman. For younger readers, this book is a window into a bygone time-a time of modest means and expectations. For older readers, it will be a visit from a long familiar, though forgotten, friend, a nostalgic reacquaintance. Beyond being gathered recollections of simpler times, this book is also a personal journey into the reflective, the spiritual, and the sensual. The book is an introspective quest to interpret the extraordinary within the ordinary. The once untranslatable perceptions of adolescence are given a comprehensible voice in the present text, which seeks to reconnect the spirit, mind, and body. Hey, Milkman! seeks to unearth the meaningful lying latent within the superficial. For five years during high school and college in the late '60s, the author delivered milk for a small family-owned dairy in his hometown of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania. It was there that his personal bond with nature was forged-a connection that still today inspires his poetry and prose. An engineer by education and profession, the author is a graduate of Penn State University and a former project engineer, engineering manager, and director of engineering for a major US corporation. After 35 years, he left the corporate world in pursuit of other lives that he believed were waiting to be lived. The pursuit still continues. He currently resides in Pottsville, PA. Hey, Milkman! is his first book.