MODESTO, Calif., March 6, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Life is always complicated and unpredictable simply because people never know where they would go and what will happen to them. Life is considered a ladder of emotions as people experience moments of sadness, anger, happiness and other emotional situations in their lives. As always, people look back at their lives and reflect deeply about what happened or what could have happened. To experience life and learn from real experiences, readers must join author John Morris Fenley, Ph.D. as he leads an incredible journey of his life with his compelling new book My Highway of Life Had Many Detours: Each Episode Describes an Unexpected Situation, and How It Affected Me.
My Highway of Life Had Many Detours is an in-depth collection of stories from the author's life, eighty-four stories to be precise. Each story has a different theme, a different situation and a conclusion with Fenley's wish about what he could have done back then. In the past, Fenley served in the US Army which prevented him from completing his MS and as time passed, he served his country, raised his family and finally in 1958 he completed his Ph.D. Much later, he traveled around the world and even spent sixteen years in Africa working for the Agency for International Development (AID) helping people develop agriculture with sheer knowledge and skills. The book has four parts dividing the stories based on theme, time and location.
Richly-layered and compelling, My Highway of Life Had Many Detours: Each Episode Describes an Unexpected Situation, and How It Affected Me is bound to attract a lot of readers, especially those who are interested in the truth as well as those who want to learn the importance of agriculture in their respective places. Fenley explains in deep detail the many situations he went through as well as sharing what he learned from every experience he had. My Highway of Life Had Many Detours is the most inspiring and most informative book that readers cannot afford to miss at their local bookstores and libraries today.
About the Author
I was born June 10, 1915 in Holtville, in the southern most part of California. My grammar and high school years were in Hemet, San Jacinto, Riverside and Brawley. For my university years, during the Great Depression (1930s and 40s), I attended UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) for two years, transferred to UC Berkeley and graduated in 1939 with my BS in agriculture. After graduation I started working on my MS, but service in the US Army prevented me from its completion. Eileen and I were married soon after I became a second lieutenant. My Army life of four years included service in the U.S. and Europe, ended in 1946 when I was discharged as a major. Then raising a family became my life, but in 1955 a scholarship sent me and my family to Cornell University to complete in 1958 my Ph.D. For three years I taught at Cornell as assistant professor, transferred to the Agency for International Development (AID) in the State Department, to spend the next 16 years in Africa (Nigeria, Liberia, Somalia, Sierra Leone). My first 11 overseas years were AID, then five in the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. I retired in 1977.
My Highway of Life Had Many Detours * by John Morris Fenley, Ph.D.
Each Episode Describes an Unexpected Situation, and How It Affected Me
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