How Long Has This Been Me? is a book of informal, heart-felt poems, good-humored and spiced with the spiritual reflections of a writer who grew up on the high, flat plains of America's Lone Star state.

Dallas Lee is a retired journalist/speechwriter and author of three books-The Cotton Patch Evidence (1971); The Substance of Faith (1972), edited from tape-recorded extemporaneous presentations by theologian Clarence Jordan; and a book of poetry, No Kind of Blues (2022). He is a native of Graham, Texas, and a 1964 graduate of Baylor University, and he lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife Mary Carol.