Uncharted Waters

About the Book

The true tales of Uncharted Waters may lead you to suspect that the storyteller is a sailor without a compass, an explorer without a map, an artist without a brush, a musician without a score—not so! You will come to see that, in each adventure, there is a plan—a plan that becomes apparent only as the story unfolds.

All of life is a voyage on unfathomed seas. We navigate only with an inner compass. Read, listen, enjoy, learn, . . . and discover what is in store for you as the stories unfold. Find the threads, the truths, the principles. Let them shape and change you.

—Dr. David Starks, Ph.D.

About the Author

John Etheridge graduated from Manteo High School, in Manteo, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Evangel University, in Springfield, Missouri. He earned a Master of Arts degree in the teaching of English as a second language from the University of Texas—Pan American, in Edinburg, Texas.

John Etheridge began his teaching career as a middle school English teacher in Nain, Iran. He has taught high school English in Manteo, North Carolina; Hidalgo, Texas; and, Pharr, Texas. He has taught reading in a middle school on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. He has taught English as a second language on Okinawa, Japan. For the last five years of his career, he taught high school geography in Pharr, Texas.

John Etheridge spent four summers as an English teacher for the College of Micronesia on the island of Yap. He spent four summers as an English instructor for the College of the Marshall Islands on Majuro Atoll. He spent eight summers as an instructor in summer teacher-training programs at universities in China's autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, and in Sichuan Province.