Editions, Elise's Eclectic

Since the age of three, Jerry Della Rocca had worn a tie from 8-5, Monday through Friday. With little warning, the company where he worked for over thirty years offered him "a package too good to be true" (his employer's words) and he accepted early-retirement. He now lives and writes on Long Island, NY with the love of his life, Elise. He's never written for Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, or Vanity Fair. He has never won any major literary awards, though his sixth-grade essay entitled "My Best Sundae Ever" did win him a prize in Dairy Queen's Summer of '59 campaign - he's still waiting to hear fr...