My first book, “Tantum Ergo Makes Your Hair Grow and Other Things I Learned After Class” is self-published through Amazon.

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Set in the years right after World War II, you will follow the exploits of a sixth grade boy in a Catholic school somewhere out in the great plains of the Midwest. But you don’t have to be Catholic to understand his complicated life, where he discovers that you can’t learn everything in a classroom, especially the most important things. He not only has to cope with the Holy Trinity, but an older sister and puberty as well. Here are a few observations in his own words.

Singing in Catholic school is usually in Latin, instead of English, so we never have any idea what we are singing about. The older kids laugh and say its something dirty. How would we know? The worst I’ve ever done is to sing, Tantum ergo makes your hair grow, instead of the real words.

Some people dance around a pole in other countries to celebrate May. But where I live and go to school, we have to march around in a procession and sing to the Blessed Virgin Mother, Mary, Queen of the May. Virgin is one of those words they use a lot in Catholic school, but never tell us kids what it means, just like The Immaculate Conception or The Feast of the Circumcision.

My second book, “Some of My Other Lives” is also self-published with Amazon.

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The title of this collection of short stories might be somewhat misleading if taken too literally. For example, it could be interpreted by a psychiatrist to mean that I have multiple personalities. To one in law enforcement or espionage, I might be an international criminal of horrifying proportions with a dozen or more passport identities. Certainly you would have to wonder what I am really up to!

Don’t worry. All I am doing here is just imagining myself to be someone else, having experiences in some other places and times that I didn’t get to have in my own real life. Sort of what might have been? You get the idea.

So, take a Saturday morning trip with me and my elderly father to a garage sale. Or, let’s spend time with a favorite aunt who comes to visit. Maybe go on a road trip through some of nature’s wonders in the western states of America. Even hang out with some really wealthy folks one might meet at the symphony.

Hope you enjoy your time with me and some of my other lives!