R. W. Thompson received his B. S. in Education from Westfield State University before embarking on a career teaching U. S. History, World History, Latin America History and World Geography at the middle school level for fifteen years. During that time period he earned his Master of Educational Administration degree and served as an elementary principal in a school with grades K-8 for seventeen years. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Westfield, MA. He has had several articles and short stories published in SOUTHWOODS; A journal for Country Living and poems published by The National Library of Poetry. Mrs. Mouse’s Christmas is his third book. He has also published Daydreaming, A Baseball Story, and The Crystal Butterfly, both by Create Space Publishing and both are available at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com. He may be contacted on his Facebook page or his website, www.rwthompson-author.com.