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This book is divided into two parts, Fiction and Memoirs, but the sections do overlap. I have learned that a small memory or experience is not a story but merely a Vignette. However, that Vignette can turn into a story with the help of some imagination. Therefore, all of these short pieces needed some sort of "trigger" to bring them to completion. Some of them are based on early experiences in many places throughout the United States and espec...

This book is a collection of thirteen exaggerated stories concerning the writer's experiences growing up in a small unnamed town in the Palouse country of eastern Washington state in the early 1930s and 1940s. Chapters 3, 4, 9 and 10 contain portions that are simply"made up" situations purely from the writer's imagination. This series of stories is an example of creative nonfiction and all of them are based on actual events from the writer's c...

This book deals with the writer's struggle to be able to leave his small unnamed hometown and seek Adventure wherever he could find it. He discovered he enjoyed traveling somewhere and then writing about the experience. An example would be when he traveled from Auburn, California to Los Angeles and then across the United States to New York City and boarded a troop ship bound for Europe. Gradually he left the wheat country of the Palouse, atten...

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This book is a narration, written by the author, about a 31, 000 nautical mile circumnavigation of the globe by the ship, Yankee Trader. In the early days of February 1979. I embarked on this voyage joined by approximately 75 other passengers, plus about 20 crew members. During this 300 day adventure, the Trader visited 61 ports and sailed the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans as well as the Caribbean sea. Yankee Trader, on this, its last t...

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Royal Dates with Destiny' is a collection of short vignettes describing the deaths of the world's aristocracy. It is presented in "calendar form, with at least one entry for each day of the year. Based on a number of scholarly sources per entry, these 400 or so "summaries of mortality" give an idiosyncratic and delightfully bizarre historical overview of the surprising ways in which the world's most powerful have died. Each month contains at l...