Chapter Gallery:The Blunder Years: A Boyhood Memoir
Chapter 1
Me unleashed from toddler harness in backyard playpen prison
Chapter 4
Last photo at summer camp with brother Richie before puking-velocity seaplane ride
Chapter 4, 12,15, 16
Richie, the instigator of endless pranks, threatens to blow out my 8th birthday candles with Mickey Mantle baseball bat
Chapter 5
Me, my big brothers, and sister on basement couch where Ape Woman attacked
Chapter 7
Virgin Mary watches over family in living room during Lenten party. Seated: Aunt Marguerite, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa. Front row: Aunts Virginia and Eileen, Uncle Johnny.
Chapter 9
Aunt Virginia commiserates with Fuji, the talking parrot
Chapter 9
Attendees at The Last Supper join us above the family supper table where Dad broke down when Grandma (on left) died
Chapter 10
Me and Richie sometime before or after shark attack
Chapter 12
Our Time Bombers’ clubhouse
Chapter 14
Our Lady of Victory, 2nd grade class, 1st class mini-Catholics in training
Chapter 14
Me and my sister, Mary, who became Sister Mary
Chapter 15
Richie’s 14th birthday (friend Holly and me, behind). Dad had no idea that his sons would become cat burglars after the candles went out.
Chapter 19
Georgie Giordano, friend and finger slicer at Beier’s German Restaurant and Ice Cream Parlor
Chapter 21
Dad and Mom on carefree weekend getaway while my party exploded into chaos at home
Chapter 21
Dad sports his “You’re grounded until hell freezes over” look during his loud-and-proud ‘60s fashion phase
Chapter 21
Me and Al, reminiscing about the Jethro Tull Boones Farm ER concert
Chapter 22
Gook, fraternity brother, horror film enthusiast, and Wolfman before his full-moon guitar performance of Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner
Chapter 23
Sluggo, warming up after being swept downriver on our Alaska backpacking boondoggle
Chapter 23
Our orange mosquito-magnet tent in Anchorage campground
Chapter 25
College: Me and Richie at CU Boulder in the Nash Ambassador escape vehicle
Chapter 26
First date with Susie, April/’74, shortly before asking her to “get serious” during a moonlit cemetery visit
Chapter 27
Rick Rappaport’s trailer on the Colorado wilderness land where I almost lit the valley on fire
Chapter 29
Rest break after inadvertently leading Boulder’s 1974 student mass streak
Chapter 29
“Return to the Womb” party before the chocolate crème pie fight
Chapter 30
College roommate and shaman, Jim, one year and no-mustachio before his final hang-glider flight