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Relative Speaking, a collection of 51 short stories, chronicles the adventures, hardships, and awesome exploits of truly remarkable relatives whose personal stories lend insight to extraordinary periods of history. Each chapter is a stand-alone story averaging 1,000 words which can be read in any order. Fire and terrorists during the Taiping revolution, 1860s; the overthrow of Dowager Empress' death, 1900s; crossing Japanese-occupied China, 1940s; staring down a dud bomb for fear of getting a new white dress dirty; passage on the only surviving ship in a convoy attacked by submarines, 1943; an...

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About the Author A natural storyteller, Lynn A Jacobson describes himself as a seriously over-educated, out-of-date engineer. Growing up on a lake in Minnesota, where summer attire consisted of a bathing suit among 30-pound mosquitoes, he migrated east to earn three degrees from MIT and later, one from University of Colorado. His credits include electronic designs for various MIT satellite experiments, such as plasma probes to capture the sun's plasma flow profile and the first ever gamma-ray telescope to map celestial gamma-ray distributions, the results of which supported the Big Bang theory. He did three tours totaling five years at the Marshall Islands missile re-entry test site on the Kwajalein atoll in the late 1960s, 2,200 miles west of Hawaii (see previous book, Kwajalein, An Island Like No Other.) Work involved operation of digital interfaces, running a 48-inch slewing telescope, and mission control. In addition to his 50 hour-a-week engineering job, he taught calculus for the University of Hawaii, ran a children's swim team, and dove on the coral reef every weekend. During Jacobson's professional years, he also published the obligatory journal articles, earned a few patents, taught digital circuits for the University of Colorado and physics for Foothills College, Los Altos, CA. As a full-time student enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulder PhD program, he had sole responsibility of first three daughters, ages 2, 4, and 6 (job titles: father, mother, cleaner, tutor, chauffeur, nanny, storyteller, and cook. In his spare time...what spare time?) Jacobson now lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, Meimei Pan, whom he followed to Stanford (see previous book, Secrets of a Trophy Husband.) Their supposed two-year graduate stint turned into a 55-year adventure which included two additional daughters (see previous book, Surviving Five Daughters). Where did all those grandkids come from? He eventually turned in his soldering-iron for a laptop and wrote five books--one per daughter (see previous book, Rescued Stories.)