Recollections in Tranquility

About the Book

Recollections in Tranquility is a sequel to Immigrants’s Son. O’Prey examines his fifteen years in religious life, comments upon his training, and compares his eight years teaching in parochial schools with his twenty-nine in public education. His conclusions are pertinent, poignant, sometimes perturbing, but always relevant. With honesty and humor he cites contrasts and similarities, and ultimately concludes that the essence of his life has been his family. Marriage to a supportive wife, parenthood, and now grandparenthood have enriched his life. Retirement provided the chance to reflect and write. This resulting chronicle portrays a life of satisfaction and his descriptions evoke images of personal success.

About the Author

Richard O’Prey was born and educated in New York City. He spent fifteen years as a Christian Brother teaching in the South Bronx for eight of those. After leaving in 1970, he worked in the public sector for twenty-nine years. The comparisons and contrasts made an indelible impression upon him. In 1972, he married his wife Mary and raised three children, Brendan, Katherine, and Maureen. Retirement provided an option for writing and reflecting. Immigrants’ Son and its sequel Reflections in Tranquility are the results. In his ‘Golden Years’ he has discovered the joys of grandparenthood as well as the responsibilities it entails.