The Famous Big-Stick Ambush: autobiographic sketches from my early life

… My Birth, My Hospital, My First Birthday … Three of My Grandparents Were Immigrants. …

V for victory! … Two-Year-Old’s Photographic Memory … Seven people, one bathroom. … Slinky Made Me Do It … Sick Had a Warm Side … There Were Worlds Under Bushes. … The Day I Saved My House from Burning Down … There are seven slices in a quart of ice cream. … I psychoanalyzed old ladies on my way to the communion rail. … Snow Tunnels and Kitchen Chairs: Fantasy of Youth, Practicality of Adulthood … There was Nickel, the cat with a hole in his neck. … Dad’s Helper … Plow Horses … A Baby Bull Knocked Me Out-kind of … Country Kids, City Kids … At Grandma Pratt’s House … My First Day of School at Saint Columba … Second-Grade Truth … Appendicitis and Lucy … Bee in Shirt, Tongue on Banister. … I Was a Drip … Chased by Hulking Brothers … Move over, I Can’t Sing On Tune. … Shouting Distance … Before the Arclights … Tar Bike … My Glider Glided Forever. … The Ragman … I Loved to Climb Trees … We Played Fake War- Sometimes with Real Rocks … I chased her until my arm went through the window. … Jerry’s Arrow: Stupidest Thing I’ve Ever Done … o-cat .. a-cat .. one-old-cat .. two-o-cat … Dogs at the Door … Pits, Yards, Machines … There Is A Lump At The Back Of My Head … An Ancient Riverbed … We Made Rubber-Band Boats … We Followed The Tracks and Came Out in Minneapolis Without Crossing the River. … Quicksand …