Life Since the Baby Boom

I wrote a book. The publication date is May 29, 2024 (if you’d rather not deal with Amazon, your bookstore can also order it from the distributor Ingram Spark, or print-on-demand if they have the equipment). You can read it for free here, although it’ll be in serial form. My fond hope is that you’ll find it so compelling that you just buy the book instead of waiting 8 months to see what happens. There will be a chapter each week, 33 in all.

Reading in serial form has a long and honorable history. My cover artist sent me this “Read Like a Victorian” website. Enjoy.

It was spring, 1992. Len was finally ready to get out of the frigid Midwest and move to California. His old friend Stan down the street had sold his house and moved to Miami with his son, leaving his (apparently) estranged wife behind, and that was the last straw for Len. That, plus the fact that the lawn mowing service raised its prices yet again, and there were rumors of another property tax increase in Bloomfield Hills. He was finally sick of it. He figured no one was going to buy a house in the winter, so he might as well dump it while the weather was good and the kids would be out of school soon.

Len was 67. He’d retired from Chrysler almost two years ago, and hadn’t really latched onto anything in his retirement that grabbed him. Detroit was going down the toilet and had been for 30 years, and no one was doing anything to stop it. His daughter Janet was making it big in Silicon Valley, he was divorced, and she was his only kid. Her new husband Walt had offered to let him live on his property in the Sierra. He could fish every day, go for hikes and have a dog to hike with him, and best of all, see her and Walt all the time! In fact, he’d already tried living there for a couple weeks and he loved it.

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