Garret Hotrich

In the Jingle Jangle Morning (Softcover: $30, 336pp, 6X9”: ISBN: 978-1-68114-613-3; Hardcover: $35: ISBN: 978-1-68114-614-0; Kindle: $2.99; LCCN: 2024920916; Books—Biographies & Memoirs—Travelers & Explorers; Release: October 6, 2024; Purchase on Amazon) relates Garret’s “story of an Everyman, whose evolution into a worthy human being has taken more than three quarters of a century and a fair share of failure before a modicum of success.”  He relates what he’s learned in an adventurous life of work and travels in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia; and he reflects on a changing world and how friends and kindness have helped him survive and thrive.

Garret Hotrich is a native New Yorker, and has been a dishwasher, stock clerk, truck driver, tutor, house painter, hitchhiker, jailbird, theater manager, farmer, “head-chain” (land surveyor’s assistant), environmentalist, edu-travel guide, international educator and actor/director.  He is an artist, poet, husband, father and grandfather.  He received his BA in English from Wagner College in 1965, and MA in Theater from the University of Maine, Orono, in 1995.  At 80 years of age, he teaches Drama to 160 students at Magic Palms, a small Laotian school in Vientiane, Laos, where he has lived and worked for almost 30 years.  He loves being alive.