Alan M. Weber is a retired College instructor of Early Childhood Education and College Success. He has published five previous books, both children's and adult's, as well as poetry, essays in the field of education, and many letters to the editor. In reverse order, his books are What Kimi Discovered (2019); Miens of Existence (2018); The Wedge (2015); Not for Hurting (2014); and Integrating the Chapters of a Life (under a pseudonym, 2012). The Mensch was a labor of love and laughs written during the pandemic.