About the author

Paul Tedesco

<p>I am a former pastor and administrator at a human services organization, holding a Master of Divinity degree. I have been a weekly columnist for The Catholic Spirit, a contributor to The National Catholic Reporter, and an invited headline guest on ABC 20/20 and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation radio network.&nbsp;<br> <br> Reading has been my passion since before I can remember. My brother carried a bat and ball. I carried a book. I still do. Lots of them. Some of them now have my name attached as the author. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did writing. From an early age, I loved the act of creating - characters, scenes, stories - something that didn&#39;t exist before and now, at the point of my pen, did. Later it was a journal. After that a column in a newspaper, articles in others, and radio and TV. Now it&#39;s books. Fiction, mostly. I love a good story. I hope you will too. It&#39;s all about &#39;imagination,&#39; isn&#39;t it? Yours and mine. When a writer and reader &#39;imagine&#39; together, the world gets exponentially bigger - and a lot more fun to boot! I try to create stories that take me &#39;somewhere else.&#39; I try to write something I would enjoy reading. Most especially, I try to write what I hope you will enjoy reading. If you don&#39;t, I still enjoyed doing the writing. If you do, it&#39;s the Fourth of July every day!<br> <br> My books are under two names, P.E. Tedesco for fiction, and Paul Tedesco for non-fiction.<br> <br> Papal Audience - A Thriller spins a fast-moving tale of evil infiltrating the Vatican at the highest level, with the life of both the Pope and the President of the United States hanging in the balance.<br> <br> There&#39;s No Place Like (Nursing) Home - Stories of Dementia, Dying and Peeing on the Christmas Tree is a brief memoir of real events - heart-rending and funny alike - surrounding my mother&#39;s two-plus years in a nursing home, what dementia did to a once-beautiful mind and personality, and how we coped. I wrote it in hopes of helping others currently - or in the future - traversing the same troubled seas.</p>