New Yesterdays by Jim L Wright - HTML preview

Acknowledgements

I’m very grateful to everyone who helped me in the telling of this tale. My Companion, Zeek Khdeer gave me constant encouragement and put up with many long hours and days of disengagement as I struggled with the story. Even more importantly, he provided me with bottomless cups of coffee!

Marsha Gail Lumpkin generously provided encouragement when I was sure the story was going nowhere. Yvette Potts Crumpley, Linda Houston, Tyler W Wright and Sheila Burgess Johnson were kind enough to read the story and offer invaluable editorial advice.

Joyce McCarley Conner was my Chief Editor. She read the entire manuscript more than once, editing and making suggestions. Without the kindness of these people, this book would be riddled with omissions, repetitions, awkward sentences and just plain poor grammar.

My parents, Aaron and Norma Wright instilled a love of the printed word in me from a very young age. If not for them, and their love of reading I might never have attempted to put this story on paper.

Finally, I am most indebted to my Grandmother, Minnie Belle McCarley Wright, “Lucy”. It was she who made me a story-teller.