Thou Shalt Not Take Thyself Too... Seriously

About the Book

Brown has used his inborn distorted sense of humor to produce a mainly funny collection of essays on the vagaries of life in general with special emphasis on the Golden Years.

About the Author

Charles Manley Brown, one-time air-line copilot, high school student in London, England, prior to WWII, university professor and associate dean, which he defines as a mouse studying to become a rat, has been a retired senior citizen for more than twenty years. Shortly before retiring he renewed his private pilot's license complete with an Instrument Rating and flew his wife around the United States in a Cessna 210.

Drawing on his 83 years as a son, brother, husband of the same wife for 61+ years, the father of five, grandfather of 28, not to mention 36 great grandchildren, Brown has used his inborn distorted sense of humor to produce a mainly funny but sometimes serious collection of essays, quotes, rewrites, light verse, and word-play on the vagaries of life in general with special emphasis on the Golden Years.

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in 1921, the sixth of eight children, Charles was raised in Salt Lake City. Always active in civic and church affairs, he started his late-life writing career at age 77. This is his third book—his fourth is in the conceptual stage. Previous books are BROTHER TO BROTHER, published in 2004 by Bonneville Books, and DISASTER, released in 2005, deal with "what if" situations involving he Mormon Church. The book you now are holding makes but one incidental reference to that church.