Welcome!  My name is Lew White.  All of my great-grandparents were from the Azores islands: fifteen from Sao Miguel and the sixteenth from Pico.   My first career was in high-tech; in those days I was not particularly interested in history.

 

During my career in engineering I often wanted to write but never seemed to find the time.  Most of that career was based on finding and implementing simple solutions to complex problems, so in my semi-retirement years I began writing  what I called a "practice book": Texas Hold'em Proverbs, a simple approach to competitive play based on proverbs (memorable basic truths for common situations) and a "read a little, play a little" approach.  It was fun to write and I hope fun to read.

 

My second book, Sopas, was something I felt compelled to write, partially because  my heritage uniquely positioned to write it, and later because of some important  historical trends that didn't seem widely known — certainly not by me before I began researching this book.  My discussions with other people, and informal study of history, started me down a path that led to an article in Spritsail... and to some other things now in progress.

                                                                                                                            Stay tuned . . .