About the author. Dubuquers love their balls -- Necking, nookie and baseball -- Confessions of a non-Catholic heathen -- Heartbreak Hotel -- Balls and buses -- Storytelling -- Death -- Lincoln Avenue cake -- Spitting -- Dubuque: if the hills could talk -- The Christmas fruitcake -- Why do Catholics have more than one name -- A Christmas story: to decorate or not to decorate -- A hug that mattered -- Let's have a pick -- Punishment -- The hunt -- Traditions -- Vacations -- Physician home visits -- Staying young -- The playground is quiet -- The lure -- The day I touched the corner -- Frogtown -- Healing the scars of child abuse -- Rules -- Summer blizzard -- Paperboys -- Swiss Valley Park -- Mort -- Stage -- New word -- Rodeo girl -- Fifty coats of grey -- Problems at the pump -- Honey, it's your turn to eat -- Farwood to sell -- The same story told different ways -- Weezle be vols -- Godzilla golf -- Appendix -- Book readers' bios -- About the author.
Summary:
A collection of short stories describing the author's childhood in Dubuque, Iowa, and his later home in East Tennessee.
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