Still no celebrity stories yet but they’re coming soon

If you’re expecting celebrity stories you’ll have to wait for the next post. I’m still adding to the first two chapters and although I do arrive in Hollywood and meet Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in chapter two, we’re not quite there just yet. (There’s a personal movie of them on my home page.)

Chapter 1 Bristol, 1935-1948

On Religion
I need to clear up one thing about my folks and their fundamental Christianity. Unlike many people we knew, Bish and Lucy were not “Sunday Christians”. They practiced what they preached and neither of them had a hypocritical bone in their body. I believe the fact that I had not had religion “shoved down my throat” but had experienced it as a devoted way of life explains why I did not immediately rebel once I was removed from the parental sphere of influence. It took me several years of doubt, reexamination of my beliefs, “backsliding” and “re-consecration to Christ” before I emerged from that toxic system.

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4th Grade
Until my last four or five semesters of college my grades were never all “A”s but until algebra in the 10th grade I had only flunked one class. Those of you who have ever seen my notes or received a handwritten communication of any kind from me will not be surprised that my first flunk was Penmanship. That ruined my summer since in order to make it up and move into the 5th grade I had to go to the dreaded summer school.

Chapter 2 Another Planet: Los Angeles 1948–’53

Get Your Kicks on Route 66
My friend Bronwen recently asked why I had included so few details of the drive west on route 66 and hadn’t written about the emotional aspects of the experience. I didn’t have an answer but the question did provoke some thought. As a thirteen year old boy I think that the only emotions I had were excitement and wonder. I’m not even sure if those are “emotions” but they certainly are feelings. I was like an animated sponge on that trip. I was seeing things so far outside my previous experience that in a way I was stupefied. So I think that all I actually remember about it is in the book. If there was an encompassing emotion it was overwhelm.
There was one glaring omission in the Strange Sounding Names category of which I was reminded by my friend Eben and ironically it may be the strangest of all the place names I came across. It was in New Mexico and the town is called Tucumcari. It still seems strange.

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