Mr. Slager was a research engineer, futurologist, and scientist at several southern California and Santa Barbara, California research firms for 35 years including Convair Astronautics, General Motors Defense Research Laboratories, General Electric TEMPO, General Research Corp, and Frontier Technology.
In these firms he was the author of numerous studies, reports, and books concerning classified US Defense matters. While he worked at these firms he learned how to craft written publications and began to write stories for his own amusement on various topics including his childhood in Texas with an eye to future publication. This book is the culmination of some of a collection of these stories about his youth in Texas City, Texas.
Mr. Slager has a S.B. in Mechanical Engineering, from MIT, 1959, and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, from UCSB, 1975.
Mr. Slager currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with his wife Judy.