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Gregg Sanders is an animator, graphic artist, and entertaining skit and poetry writer. At the beginning of 2023, he retired from being an Environmental Protection Engineer to start-up Gregg’s E-Cards and the Wise-Guy Humor E-books business. As a second career, his passion is to bring people closer together in a fun, creative way. Gregg is a journalist for the Collinsville Daily News and member of the Plethora of Pens, Eville, and Main Street writing groups. He excelled at Master of Fine Arts (MFA) coursework for poetry writing at the University of Illinois. He earned a B.S. in Manufacturing & Packaging Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology at Rolla and an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He was raised in Centralia, Illinois and has resided in the Springfield, Illinois and Glen Carbon/Edwardsville, Illinois areas.
What was the inspiration and passion behind Gregg’s E-Cards and Wise-Guy Humor Skits and Poetry E-Books?
Gregg’s inspiration originates from the works of many poets, comedians, cartoonists, nature, and culture. It also can be drawn from his innate super-power to, unintentionally and disproportionately, attract bizarre circumstances and bad luck. Much of his passion is rooted in empathy and the joy of connecting people: for a smile or a good laugh, to feel loved, to feel understood, and to be remembered. The creative process of developing e-cards, skits, and poetry is always an adventure and a thrill that also feeds his passion. Gregg has big empathy for those who possess: good intentions, great skills, and live their lives to assist others, especially, when they are beaten down or unfairly bypassed by a big-break they deserve. The Wise-Guy Humor Skits book, in part, is dedicated to them in amusing, fun-loving, and healthy ways. The read can be therapeutic through the use of off-the-wall humor. In the grand picture, greeting cards and skit humor were perceived as a potential way to reach and draw peoples’ attention towards reading Gregg’s poetry, which is part of a long-shot dream of sparking additional interest into the richness found in the greats’ works; as their enlightenment, seems to him, to have been buried a bit and fallen out of favor as a form of entertainment and of healthy individual and cultural education of historical, present, and future relevance. Gregg respects much of their writings. As long as he can remember, Gregg has wanted to have a thriving business to be able to substantially support good causes and make a big difference in peoples’ lives whom have special needs or could use a break.