Kevin Cripe

Hi,
I was an elementary school teacher in California for 27 years and retired to Panama. As teacher I ran an after school chess program for my mostly Latino student population. We went to over 200 chess tournaments and 14 national championships and I watched as children used chess to become first generation college graduates.
I have written and had illustrated some children's book. each book deals with an issue. The first completed book deals with politics and because our politics is dark , the book book is dark and edgy. My progressive friends like it a great deal and my conservative friends not as much :)
"The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The Complete Story" tries to make sense of how we arrived to our current state of politics. (It is for

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