"Truth is: Life, Love & Humor"

Local police sergeant and author Eddie Carr joined Studio10 to preview his book Truth is: Life, Love & Humor. It's a collection of poems based on humor, sadness and everyday experiences.

About the book:
Imagination is a great part of every one of us. We sit and day dream about things, fantasying the way we see them occurring. In this book of poetry, I have taken imagination, history and our everyday life experiences, mixing them and putting them into stories. This book “Truth Is,” has come from those dreams. This is not abstract poetry and a person reading will understand what message is being delivered in the numerous poems. I want the reader to enjoy and dream of things that happen to each one of us in our lives.

In this book, you will read stories of happiness and sadness. In the poem, “Willie Cane,” the locations are real and the characters fictional. In “Making a Name,” you will get parts of history and a fictitious, but an interesting outcome to a well-known holiday in the City of Mobile. You will find sadness in “Karley and Me, and Two Sisters Together,” along with humor in “Little Arnold Gets the Ball.” “Someday,” will give a life’s perspective and “Angels Kiss,” talks of love.

There are many other stories, dreams and words of encouragement that I hope you will find enjoyable to read. The book contains stories in verse form about life, love and humor. I have tried to tell of things that I have heard about and some that have happened to me. Most of them are just imagination, with lots of fantasy, history and fiction. I hope that you will find some of these works entertaining and some useful in your everyday life.

About the Author:
Eddie Carr graduated in 1970 at Mary G. Montgomery High School in Semmes, Alabama, and started his adult life in the United States Navy. He was a Gunners Mate and served his country during the Vietnam era. After completing his four year tour of duty he returned home to Mobile, Alabama and began working at a local shipyard. He was accepted into the Mobile Police Department in 1978. He continued his education and received an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice from Faulkner State Junior College and is now a sergeant with the police department. Out of his thirty four years, he has spent nineteen of those as the supervisor of the Mobile Police Department Mounted Detail. As that units supervisor he was dedicated to riding horses with his subordinates and teaching others how to ride. Eddie’s dedication earned him several awards and instructor certificates. Loving the outdoors from his childhood, he continues to ride horses and loves fishing, hunting and officiating football. He comes from a family of eight and was raised in a country setting. He now lives in a small community in North Baldwin County called Stockton.

Book signing:
January 6th
6 - 8 PM
Page & Paletts
32 South Section Street
Fairhope, AL