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 .. ə-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 ...