Herman Edel

Scrambled Eggs and Mashed Potatoes: a Jocular Conversation About Royalty Herman Edel

Reviews: "Scrambled Eggs and Mashed Potatoes" is incredibly entertaining and informative. The author, Herman Edel, shares outstanding bios of many fascinating people while entwining them with innovative, personalized glimpses into Edel's amazing life. Lighthearted, very funny and touching! A must read. Gayle L. Van Voorhees Reading "Scrambled Eggs and Mashed Potatoes" was a joy. The author brings to life a series of divergent people that all face the good and bad of life in their own unique manner. There are laffs aplenty and more than a tear or two in the telling. A delightful read. James J. Gibbons Author, Herman Edel, has a unique way of looking at life. As he says, ?I get up each morning, take a good look at myself in the bathroom mirror, and then start laughing. The face I see has broken me up for many, many years and I am thankful for that. It allows me to look at the world?s problems with a large grin. For I know that no matter how tough things might be today, tomorrow I shall, hopefully, wake up again and find a reason to laugh.? That?s what "Scrambled Eggs and Mashed Potatoes" is all about, having the guts to look at that mirror and laugh. No room for self pity, just a great awareness that a load of garbage will probably flow your way this day and all you can do, to maintain your sanity, is to face what comes with a large grin on your face. The world is in turmoil and has always been that way, and, in all likelihood, will always be in turmoil. If we let that get to us and don?t smell the roses or see the beauty that also abounds, then what is the purpose of hanging around? He has taken twenty five world-famed people, like Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Newt Gingrich, Susan Boyle, Casanova, Abraham Lincoln and 20 others, and explored the good and bad times they have contended with and how they fared in the ongoing battle of life. He does so with his tongue very much in cheek and allowing for a tear to dropby as well. The joy of writing continues for Herman in Scrambled Eggs and Mashed Potatoes, his third work. They Never Called Me Pop, The Pavlac Legacy and the fourth, Siracusa is on the way to completion. They are widely diverse and entertaining books. Herman was a music producer working throughout the world. He also was the host of a Musical Theatre program on Public Radio for many years, and for two terms was the Mayor of Aspen, Colorado.