User:Richard Orey

Richard Lee Orey was born January 31, 1933, in Salem, Oregon. He is a novelist, poet and essayist. His main website is www.Authorsden.com/richardleeorey where his many writings and vocal recitations are posted and reviewable. He is a Southern California courtroom professional who retired to write, grow roses and lake-paddle in his red canoe. Richard Lee Orey is a former official court reporter of the United States District Court and of the California Superior Court with 38 years of daily courtroom trial experience. Also a lawyer, he writes fiction to express his passions and to let readers eavesdrop on true and forbidden happenings of life. His mantra: "What I focus upon becomes reality. I have the power to choose."

Accomplishments: A Letter of Commendation from the Mayor of the City of San Diego for outstanding community leadership and a law school recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award.

Richard Lee Orey has appeared as keynote speaker in over two hundred law-related continuing education seminars and as guest lecturer in trial and discovery procedures for numerous professional and educational institutions, including the University of San Diego School of Law and the California Western University School of Law, and is a corporate founder and former officer of the California Court Reporters Association.

Posted at: www.Authorsden.com/richardleeorey The pen and vocal artistry of RICHARD LEE OREY ________________________________________ Books How to be Smart, Shrewd & Cunning—Legally!/ The Hunt for the President’s Wife/ The Paradise of Revenge/ The Trial Seminar/ Courtroom Success

Poems & Recitations I Sit Alone and Cry/ Mother Teresa/ A Walk In My Garden/ I Dream of You/ A Lovely Rose/ Be Still and Hear My Voice/ My Nubile Fawn and Me/ Yesterday’s Mirror/ If I Could Go Back to Earth/ The Kiss/ Oh, Dear God, Tell Me Why!/ Flappers & Speakeasies

Essays A Letter to My Great-granddaughter/ I Was Made for You/ How to Succeed in Life/ The Canoe Principle/ Begin Again, Ab Initio/ The Pendulum of Life _____________________________________