About Me — Robert G. Longpré
I am old, as old as dirt as some of my grandchildren would have me believe. I am married to the same woman that I proposed to three hours after we met [she said yes]. We have three children who are now parents and going through the same pains as we did raising them. And, perhaps more importantly, we have eight grandchildren, seven of them are boys.
I am retired. For thirty-some years I was a teacher, with ten of those years as a school principal. Partway through that career, I became a psychotherapist. If you read that correctly, you are right to assume that I had a midlife crisis. When I retired, I became an Education professor at a Chinese university, teaching teacher-wannabes how to teach English using traditional and creative communication strategies. Eventually, I did retire for good.
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I took up writing as a career. I had first published in a youth journal in Ottawa, Canada in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until 1977 that I was commissioned to write a full book. Bits and pieces appeared until I finally retired. And now, I have arrived here on Medium, a place that is beginning to feel like home.
My writing has certain flavors. Underlying most of my work is depth psychology, drawing forth all sorts of mythological gods and goddesses representing human wounding; Buddhism, showing up in attitudes and; ecological awareness; pilgrimage — we are all pilgrims on a journey: and naturism, embracing the interconnectedness of all aspects of the universe and self.
My latest work in progress is a series of novels targeted at Middle Grades. Before I tell you about this, I want to explain that I write with my grandchildren in mind. For example, one novel was written for my first three grandsons. It’s a young adult story involving aliens [yes, my three grandsons are the alien protagonists] who come to help humans. Another story has the next two grandsons in a space opera. The WIP is for grandson #6. The series is called Space Cadet Academy. The image above is for the cover of the second book in the series.
I hope that you will risk meeting me here. Who knows, if I am lucky you might even teach this old dog new tricks.
