Preshrunk Ponderings and Rumpled Rememberings

About the Book

Preshrunk Ponderings and Rumpled Rememberings is a collection of folksy essays on low-cost housing and its relationship to homelessness, on public transportation and its relationships to independence of movement and quality of life, on artifice and institutionalism in higher education, and on the tinkering mind and creative science. The author draws from his experiences in living life fully from the low-end of the economic scale and offers uncommon perspectives on what readers may find common all around us. Reasonable analyses of problems are intended less toward offerings of solutions than to provoke thought and stimulate discussion. There are no overt polemics or hard-line politics that might stir the dental profession to action from widespread gnashing of teeth. These are just amiable discourses on a few diverse topics to animate some dimension to the prevailing flat dullness and torpor. They are easy reading for a few lazy hours.

About the Author

Tom Slattery was born and grew up in the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area. He wandered through the world with an interested eye, a knack at seeing things differently, a fertile mind. He worked for colleges, universities, and research facilities, and lived and worked for years in Asia and Europe.