Ira Spector

Ira Spector played poker for years with an artificial turkey inseminator, and had after-tennis "prayer meetings" with his pals, where they screamed and shouted at each other and solved all the worlds problems in one hour. He was slowly infected with an itch to document the most memorable episodes in the jar of jelly beans that has been his life. He chronicles his story in seventy one essays and poems, some which have been published, and some that have won some

unimpressive awards. His eventful and unusual romps through 83 countries on six continents and the characters he met are frank and some times outrageous, but always entertaining.