To Be Continued

About the Book

Ned Snead, the author, thinks that death is no big deal. His two fictional characters, Willie and Joe, have lived many times, in many places, since the beginning of time. Whenever they meet they like to swap yarns about what they have seen since they last met. We can listen in on some of their bull sessions. They know if their last life was not satisfactory, they can try again somewhere else.

About the Author

Born in Texarkana 83 years ago, but raised in Austin where he specialized in Boy Scout canoe and bicycle camping trips, Ned played first trombone in the Austin High School Band and later in the Texas Aggie Band and Aggieland Orchestra. (“Not good, but loud.” An avid flyer, he learned to fly pilot Piper Cubs in 1944 and Schweizer gliders in 1955. He was an Air Force Communications Officer in Taegu, Korea in 1952 and ’53. Following, Ned worked at keeping his father’s Texas Crushed Stone Company out of bankruptcy until he learned about management at the Harvard Business School in 1960. He then learned about selling computers from IBM in 1965, and started his own software company in 1968. “It was still in business in 2004, but not doing as well as Ross Perot’s,” he comments. Ned has received more than a dozen patents on heavy equipment transport and weighing equipment. Cash flow from inventions paid for a wide variety of interests, including politics, barbershop singing, travel and writing. He raised three daughters, all outstanding mothers and part-time missionaries. Sherron, who Ned says likes to be introduced as “my last wife”, has made “the last 30 years a lot of fun.” Ned recently organized the Snead Institute to teach Spanish and Chinese to local elementary students.. “Can’t wait to see what happens next.”