Thinking Allowed

Personal Essays Along the Way

“Gary J. Fernandes serves his first entre into the literary world with this eclectic collection of essays which displays an affinity for the pen that’s been evolving for seven decades. Only after retiring from EDS as Vice- Chairman and traveling for pleasure with his wife Sandra did the muse appear in the form of flowing personal commentary that explored his unique and perspicacious world-view.

With an easy writing style evoking a conversation with friends rather than lecture, this debut captures his wry, intelligent perspective weaving its way through a myriad of interests, musings, analyses, and shared wisdom about everything from politics and current events, family history and human frailties, far-flung travel tales, philosophy and world deities, to the glories of the natural world and the complexities of choosing skunk bait.

This book in itself is an admirable body of work that will carry you to every corner of a rich, reflective, whimsical, and adventurous mind, and bids you to look beyond the ordinary to a world where, as the title suggests, thinking is not only allowed, but celebrated.”