Joan Senior writes under the pen name JE Senior. She lives in upstate New York. But Love is Long is her first non-fiction book.

From an early age Joan was fascinated by books. Before she could read she 'read' out loud from comic books by describing the actions of images in each frame. She was the audience for an older brother, who each day after preschool, recited and recounted the lessons he had learned. Learning from him, by the time she was old enough for preschool, she was almost ready to graduate to the next level.

In primary school, she was always ahead of each class, skipping an early grade; and by age 10 was placed in a special class with other students who like her were too young for the senior form but who had outclassed all other forms in the school's curriculum.

While studying at George Washington University, where she received her BBA, she chose a Creative Writing course as one of her electives and excelled. Her essays were often, if not always, chosen as one of those, and later, as those, to be read to the class.

The young Joan while living in Toronto worked under the title 'Correspondent' at Columbia Records of Canada, a job which attracted her for its promise of merging her writing skills with her emerging business skills achieved as a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (now Ryerson University). But over the years her writing was confined to writing business reports and memorandums.

As a child, some of the classics available in comic book format whetted her appetite for unabridged versions: Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, to name a few. These samplings and stories synopsized, by her mother from memory, notably, Daphne du Maurier's 'Rebecca,' instilled in Joan a life- long love for the beauty and power of words.

She loves the magic of verse and rhyme and can still write a proper sonnet for any occasion. It is Wordsworth's "The holy time is quiet as a nun, breathless with adoration" that she sees when watching sunsets. In difficult moments, it is Kipling's line "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, which sees her through.

But Love is Long was an idea during the dark hours of Covid-19, which did not gain stature until 2023. The title is inspired by the Cornish folk song "Life is Short but Love is Long."

JE Senior is honest and completely unguarded in this inspirational presentation.