Life’s highs and lows: people, their pets, joys, peeves and foibles—captured in witty and insightful verses.

Ease the tension on your seat belt, sit back, and enjoy a lively journey through the life of a man who has found poetry to be the ideal medium in which to record his own feelings…and to share them with others. Whether delightful or doleful, the poems are expressed with wit and sensitivity. Follow the pratfalls and pinnacles of the author’s own life as he also demonstrates a keen eye for the foibles and failures of others in this charming collection. It’s the highs, the lows, the happy moments, the sad ones, and the pure flights of fancy: The Rhymes of My Life.

Ed Russell, whose checkered business career included a decade as a speech writer for the president of a Fortune 500 company, lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he has enjoyed an active retirement as a volunteer for the Red Cross and the Alzheimer’s association. Ed also sings barbershop every Monday night.