29 mostly-humorous stories dealing with adventure, relationships, lessons learned, a realization that things are not as they seemed, preposterous situations, and the best and the worst of what life can throw at us-at least me. It includes my stereo causing the New York City Blackout, watching my bike trail behind a rising plane, falling asleep with a tornado pounding on my wall, and revenge of the YMCA maid. There's kids thwarting atomic attacks, adults thumbing through the Depression with a dollar wrapped around a big toe, driving three thousand miles for a dream date that became a nightmare, and careening into the breakers of the Gulf of Mexico. There's the time I faced expulsion because my mom signed her name after I'd forged hers for years, the little genius who achieved the impossible in one week, perilously crossing a train bridge high above a highway, and the world's most powerful record executive fuming because I skipped Hebrew class to look for girls-plus more