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MEMORIES OF MY FATHERS
CHAPTER ONE
Fade back to Birth
40°07′12″N 75°20′30″W
Peeing On The Man
Me, My Dad and The
Three Stooges
Getting a Haircut
with My Dad
CHAPTER
TWO
My Parents Have
Three Kids
Mom, Why Doesn’t Lynn Have One?
Daddy’s Little
Girl Sells Us Out
CHAPTER THREE
1961 –
Kindergarten – The Year I turned Five
Camelot Was Born In America
Designated Man Of
The House
I Was A Klutz - My Brother was O.J. Simpson
Mexican Jumping
Beans and My First Three Original Sins- My Dad Had My
Back
CHAPTER FOUR
1964 – 3rd
grade – The Year I Turned Eight
My Italian Family
CHAPTER FIVE
I Wanted To Become A Priest – Order of The Thorn Birds?
A Change In The
Pecking Order
CHAPTER SIX
Wife Abuse and the Terror that Follows
My Father’s Conspiracy
The Loss OF My Italian Family
CHAPTER SEVEN
Winter of 1966
Uncle Antonio Old School Tough, - Aunt Angie Old School Wife
Uncle Antonio Was The Local Conan The Barbarian
Bruised Pride and Missing Teeth
Flawed and Beloved
Pro Wrestling, Hot Peppers, Beer, and Early Morning Tears
Mayberry RFD, Hee
Haw and Deliverance For Real
CHAPTER EIGHT
Spring of 1967
Sneads Ferry – The
Promise of Deliverance
34°33′7″N, 77°23′12″W
Hunger My Constant Companion
South Eastern North Carolina – The Untamed Frontier
CHAPTER NINE
Deliverance and Scratching Them Itches
Uncle Jose’ Bans the Eyetalian Mulattos
Deliverance
Instead of Deliverance
Midnight Betrayal
CHAPTER TEN
We Move Away From The River and Deeper Into The Barrens
34.71°
N 77.44° W.
Teresa was Heaven
Sent
I Am Lazarus, Lord
of the Barrens
CHAPTER ELEVEN
UFO’s, Alien Beings and Carnivorous Plants!
Captain Jack Finbar - A Man of Mystery
Captain Jack – My Mother’s Guardian Angel
My Dad Visits Us
My Mother Meets
Jake – A Turning Point
Moving Back to
Pennsylvania
Dad is a Super
Hero
CHAPTER TWELVE
Jake Brings The
Food
The Sins Of The
Father
Reluctantly I Learn About The Birds and The Bees
The Fear of Fatherhood and My Reprieve
Wrestling Also Causes a Rift Between Jake and Me
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Mom and Dad Do Not
Get Back Together – Confusion Reigns
My Dad Sought
Visitation Rights – Babysitting
Who’s Alpha Now
I Get Another
Father – My Mother And Jake Marry
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
My New
Grandparents Welcome Us Into Their Family:
But When Will They
Get To Have Their Own Grandchildren?
My Dad Gives Me
Insight Into The Minds of Bullies
Football –Who
Would Have Thought?
My Godfather
CHAPTER FIFTHTEEN
Any Port In A
Storm Jitterbug!
Big Brothers
Association – Their’ Intentions Are Good, However….
Mini-biking with
Jake
40°07′51″N
75°25′33″W
/ 40.13083°N
75.42583°W
/ 40.13083;
-75.42583
Uncle Antonio
Snaps My Wrists
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Football
Coaches Make Their Threats
Summer of Rats On Tobacco Hill Road
Uncle Antonio –
More Flawed than I Had Thought
Sammy Visits The Farm
Luke Keeps It All In The Family
I Wouldn’t Do That
To A Damn Pig
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Cornfield Getaway
and Run-ins With Rattle Snakes
Uncle Quasimodo
That’s Sure A
Purty Lawn Mower
You’re my Honky Tonk Boy, Ain’t Ya?
Aunt Trudie and
Mr. Batchelor have their secrets
It’s Okay To Kiss Me Sug - I’m Yer Uncle!
The River’s Purty
and The Dead Don’t Talk
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Cold Showers and
Yoga's Not Working, So How About Judo
You Are Strong Like Bull! Now I Send You To Your Jesus!
Cold Showers &
Weight Training, Yoga, Judo, Hypnosis, & Meditations
I Was Half Gandhi
And Half Thug
I Hated To Meet Kathy's Father – Mr. Granite
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Recruiter Promises
A Rose Garden-They can be Trusted, Right?
Bat Ears, Bat Eyes
I Know You’re On
Drugs
I’ll Cut Your
Fucking Head Off!
A Send Off Party From My Dad
CHAPTER TWENTY
Indian Mystic Visits In My Dream
Next Destination?
– Parris Island
My Brother James
Resents Our Stepfather’s Son Geraldo?
James Moves in
With My Father
Your At A Funeral
– Where’s Your Dress Blues?
I Had To Make
Tough Choices
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
My Dad Steals Our
Inheritance – According to My Mother
Bad News From My
Mother
My Mother Takes My
Dad To Court
Discharged from
Both the Marines & My Family
Back In King of
Prussia
Will Anyone C0-sign To Help Me Make It
Through Life?
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
You’re All Going
To Jail Down There!
I Move From The
Frying Pan Into The Fire
Visit From my Dad
– Can’t Help You, But Here’s A Sleeping Bag
CHAPTERS
TWENTY-THREE thru TWENTY-FIVE
Outrage From My
Mother, Aunt and Sister!
My Friends Think I
Exaggerated About My Dad
My Brother and Me
In A Three-Some – I Don’t Think So!
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
Seeing My Dad In
Pensacola
My Dad, - A Wild,
Wild West Kind Of Guy
For Them It Was
Just Foreplay
My Dad Warns Me Of
Harry
My Dad Tutors Me
About Career Choices and Algebra
It’s Toony Time!
My Father Calls
Me at the Gym and Told Me To Visit Him – If I Paid For My Own
Way
CHAPTER
TWENTY-SEVEN
Blood Money
Resurrected
Orwellian Heroes
Summer of 2008
CHAPTER
TWENTY-EIGHT
Stor 'n' Locks Or
Camping Out As Possible Option
My Dad Calls and
Thanks me for Giving Him Such Expensive Gifts
I Move to Olive
Street
Dad Tells Me Why
He Can’t Visit Me
August 13, 1989,
Lynn and Wilford get Married
Dad Interrogates
Me About How Much I Own –
However, He Does
Not Like To Say What He Owns
My Brother Hits Me
And My Dad up For Money
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
My Dad Gets
Divorced - A Second Time
April of 1994
Suicide - An
Option I Flirted With
My Last Minute
Will and Testament Before I Go Under The Knife
Two Weeks
Recovering With My Mother
May of 1994
Summer or 1994
CHAPTER THIRTY from chapter 29
James Gets Married
My Dad Brags To My
Godfather that I am A Big Time Developer
My Dad Hits Me Up
For Money
Dad Wants To
Replenish His VA Benefits
August 8th,
1994
Federal Agency’s
HAZ-MAT Industrial Hygienist Recommends Respirator
I Visit My Dad For
the First Time In Thirteen Years
Diving with the
Bull Shark & Barracudas
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE -
change to 31
My Dad Hates Bald
Men
Will You Look At
This Puppy, What Do I Need To Lift Weights For?
March 23rd,
1995 - The Spring Of My Brother’s Passing
Jake Laments that
James was the One He Could Not Save
Crocodile Tears
For My Brother
My Brother’s Ashes
Are Up For Grabs
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
- change to 32
Down and Out in
Eugene Oregon
Neo – Atticus Finch
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - change to 33
Jake’s Interest in Pandora – And His Resentment
Jake does not want to be bothered
Living in the Car Jake bought me
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - change to 34
My Mother Tries to Get Me and Jake To Bond
Dr. Hannibal Lector – Fraternal Transference
My Therapist – My Surrogate Father
Dad is filled with rage and hatred & he won’t help my request to
get
me notice by the public.
Dad Rants about how unfair it was to have his whole family torn
from him
Your Father’s Has Changed – He Quit Drinking & He Takes His
Vitamins
My Father Won’t Spend A Dime On His Children, But He Will For
The Monsters He Fucks
Neo’s Tears & My Heartbreak
My Father Sends A Promise Of His Last Will & Testament.
My Dad Nearly Dies
My Dad Begs Me To Live With Him
My Father Passes
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(GENESIS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(EXODUS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(REVELATIONS)
MOST PEOPLE TALK BULLSHIT:
One Primate's Search For Intelligent Life
(JUDGMENT DAY)
ADVENTURES IN MARINE BIOLOGY
THE MARINES: GOD'S CHOSEN
WARRIORS
VINCE'S GYM
CONVERSATIONS WITH NEO
NEO TEACHES ME THE ART OF WAR
& PEACE;
His Version of The Matrix
ZEN & THE ART OF RESISTANCE
TRAINING:
A Yogic & Scientific Approach To Weight
Lifting
ZEN & THE BIOLOGY OF
TRANSCENDENCE:
The First Matrix of Psychic
Phenomena
ZEN & THE ART OF KINESIOLOGY:
The Yogic & Scientific
Approach To Movement
ZEN & YOUR ENERGY SYSTEMS
ZEN & VARIOUS ASPECTS OF
TRAINING
HOMEPAGE |