Books by Edward Olsen

This book is the second in a series about how I learned some of the most important lessons in life. For me many of those lessons happened while I was in the navy. That should be understandable because that was the first time I was away from home, still in my late teens but on my own out in the world away from the comfortable and secure surroundings I grew up in. This book covers the time period when I was still new in the navy, going to various schools before I would be of any real use. It's not really about the navy as much as it is about the people. What people do is where you learn a lot about life.

In hiding on planet earth. He becomes one of us, lives as one of us, until the day he is called home to rescue the conquered galactic empire he left behind.

I was a young man of about twenty five. Up to then, I had worked hard and applied myself. I had been taught honesty and hard work would make things go well. That's how it was up until this point in my life. I found myself in an intolerable situation that caused a near mental breakdown. But I was rescued at the right moment, in a most unexpected way. Life has been very good ever since. Sometimes life's lessons are hard learned. Sometimes, you are the teacher and you don't even know it. We are being watched over and directed. Sometimes life seems like bad luck. But maybe it isn't. Maybe there's a purpose to it. Sometimes, even though you might be saying to yourself, "Why Me!" Maybe it really isn't about you. This is the story about how I found myself in a situation like this. Everything was going wrong. Nothing was right. But it all changed one day, and after a time, I understood why it happened. It wasn't about me. It was bigger than that.