Stories Around the Corner: A Series of Unexpected Experiences From the Near & Distant Past

My first thought was to title this book Essays to Keep Me Out of Jail. Catchy yes, upbeat and appealing no. I slept on it and decided to change the title. Everyone likes a story, fewer people like an essay. Everyone walks around a corner, fewer experience the threat of jail. Thus, my hope is the new title will appeal to a larger audience. Yet the content remains the same. This is intended to be a fun book that will be fun to read. It is a collection of stories. Do not consider them essays if you do not think essays are fun. I had fun living and writing these stories. It recently dawned on me that in the last frantic 36 months I have written a whole lot of stuff. If compiled that stuff would be more than enough to make a small book. Whether it is a good book remains to be determined. Thus, I plow forward with essays that tell stories well received by some. The purpose of a few was to promote other people. Some were to promote businesses. Others attempted humor, whether pseudo cerebral or inane. The good thing about a collection of essays is you, the reader, can skip ones you don’t like. You can even clip them from the book and hand them to someone who might like them. But then you will have defaced a book and will need to buy another. Keep doing this. Please. View Less