Thoughts While Shaving and assorted verses

About the Book

Thoughts While Shaving is a collection of observations and anecdotes which originated some years ago when, after he had retired, the author found himself settled in S. Carolina on the East coast, while his family were spread over in the North-West , and, as they were all lousy letter-writers, communication was restricted to an occasional , but welcome, phone call.

As a better - than - nothing way of keeping in touch, he started sending out a 'Thoughts While Shaving' letter every month in the hope of provoking some sort of written reaction, and as this seemed to have some success, the prospect of publishing them eventually emerged . The compiling of them for publication has been a welcome labor and it is hoped that, at least for some, this pleasure may be shared.

About the Author

Donal P. Beckett, born in Ireland, is an Irish, British, Canadian, American citizen of the world. He has had a varied career as a British Army Medical Officer in World War II, then a surgeon in a London hospital prior to emigrating with his family to a small town in Western Canada. There he practiced medicine and surgery and earned a precarious living doing house-calls to remote farm houses. He then moved to the U.S. and undertook training in psychiatry which he practiced until his retirement in 1984.

Now in his nineties, he lives quietly in the Tacoma area on the West Coast surrounded by his extended family and figures he never had it so good.