Redemption and Illumination: The Way Home

Book excerpt: Terence McSweeney is a retired middle school teacher of English and Social Studies with a BA in Political Science from Boston College and a MS in Elementary Education from Eastern Connecticut State University. Redemption and Illumination is his sixth manuscript. His first book, Poems & Thoughts is a work of original oil paintings, poetry, and observations. Green Underwear, his second book by contrast, is an autobiography about growing up in the fifties and sixties during the Cold war era. He has written a children’s book entitled, Little One’s Big Day and Volumes 1 and 2 of the McGonegal Chronicles entitled The Quest and The Twelve Gates. When he is not writing Mr. McSweeney works in his studio creating impressionistic oil painted landscapes.