title: Living on the Edge of Heaven: The Humorous Exploits of a Boy, His Soul, and His Purpose
author:  G Edward 
description: Over a career spanning more than thirty years, G. Edward has worked as an engineer, a technical salesman, a general manager, a consultant, and a business owner. While technical writing during his earliest years as an aerospace engineer, his creative prose caused both trouble and success. After a full corporate career, he moved on to start a hardware business. A connoisseur for people and experiences, real life is fertilizer for prose, and he returned to his love of a more creative style of writing. Writing feature columns for magazines and at Gedwardpress.com, he writes "The Nuts and Bolts of Things" , " The Edge of Heaven", and "Overheard at the Hardware Store." He, his wife, and children gather at the shores of a lake in Wisconsin, just this side of heaven.
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  To my dad, Richard Zevin, who knows everything
  
  Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life,
  
  or whether that station
  
  will be held by anybody
  
  else, these pages must
  
  show.
  
  —Charles Dickens, _David_
  
  _Copperfield_
  
  Table of Contents
  
  Title Page
  
  Epigraph
  
   **I**. - **i defend my own honor**
  
   **II**. - **i am punished; define** _re-_
  
  _cidivism_ ; **tend to family matters**
  
   **III**. - **i confess; contemplate**
  
   **mortality & teeth; lure a boy**
  
   **under false pretenses; disap-**
  
   **point my brother**
  
   **IV.** \- **i go to little egypt**
  
   **V**. - **i regret having gone to**
  
   **little egypt**
  
   **VI**. - **i entertain two unwelcome**
  
   **guests;**
  
   **am**
  
   **mistaken**
  
   **for**
  
   **someone else**
  
   **VII.** \- **i am accused; make mat-**
  
   **ters worse**
  
   **VIII**. - **i am sent to liberty; am**
  
   **also tattooed!**
  
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   **IX.** \- **i discover an influential**
  
   **friend & then, a foe**
  
   **X**. - *