I grew up in the very cool college town of Ann Arbor Michigan and these are the particular pieces about my life there that feature some of its unique people and venues

Jane & Eric Go to Ann Arbor – How my mom and dad ended up in Ann Arbor and ended up together

Have Bike Will Travel – At age eight my parents let head off on my own in my wonderful home town of Ann Arbor

Staying Home – Trying to survive my very difficult early teen years while I was in school at Tappan Junior High

Unschooling in the Art of Theater – Includes my extensive experience in Ann Arbor Junior Light Opera (JLO)

Politics 101 – Learning about the art of community organizing from my mom and her friends in the some wild political times in my home town

My Feminist Aunts – My mom and the other bigger than life women who were my mentors in my teenage in Ann Arbor

The Keisling Clock – Coping with the boring parts of high school at Pioneer, particularly my 11th grade Chemistry class

Anarchism & the Sub-Basement of the Graduate Library – Flirting with radical politics deep in the stacks of the University of Michigan Graduate Library

Coming of Age at the Laundromat – Coming to grips in my older youth with my mom as a real person like me (rather than some iconic adult figure) and my own agency

Playing the Silver Ball – Experience the metaphysical possibilities of life in the moment in the pinball alleys of Ann Arbor

The Zen of Walking – Learning to be in the moment and at one with world around me pounding the pavement of my home town of Ann Arbor

Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury’s great book about the magic in a kid’s summer experience turns me on to the magic of life as I inhabit my home town

Saying Goodbye to Ann Arbor – Leaving Ann Arbor and my youth behind to seek a new venue for my adulthood