Twigs of Chance: Four time travel stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781466438682)

Bruce Parsons has been a frustrated time-traveler wannabe all his life. He envisioned winning track meets in high school by slowing down his own perception of time. He also thought it would be great for homework. If he could go back in time, he would light a fire under his younger self to get these stories rolling earlier. He has been a "jack of all trades, master of none," for most of his life, dabbling with writing, teaching, foreign missionary work, and rural pastorates. He even dabbled in cotton merchandising and gourmet food sales on his trip through time, and never won any awards for any of them. He tried to calculate his experience one time: 20 years of formal education, 11 years on the mission field, two years in sales, 30 years in the pastorate, four years in agriculture, and twelve years as a kid. If he calculated correctly, that makes him at least 79 years old, nearly as old as his parents. Whatever the age, he considers the wife and kids he acquired along the trip as the best things that ever happened to him.