This collection of humor, satire and memoir has it all. Sex, religion, politics. What life was like and what it might have been had things been different. It’s about growing up, growing older and just plain growing. Seventy tales of phobias, winning the lottery and something about Jesus. There’s a fishing story, a getting knocked out story and yes, even one about chickens.

‘Checking Out’ takes a humorous look at dying while ‘Friends’, considers the life of soldiers returning from war and maybe wishing they hadn’t. There is a poem about a trip to Mardi Gras, and being propositioned on the streets of the Big Easy . Others on bullying and an award-winning, ‘69 Springs’. Growing up in a small town, business ventures and jumping out of airplanes.