Being a bum is easy. A bum can be lazy, irresponsible, and selfish. Family doesn't mean anything until one day a baseball loving teenage grandson becomes the target of a bully.

Being a bully is easy, especially if your teachers have held you back for two years. Bigger and stronger, classmates cow tow to him unless they have the integrity of the baseball loving teenage grandson of the bum.

Like all easy lives there comes a point where life can become complicated. The bully persists in the harassment of the bum's grandson, but the bum wakes up in time to quickly and decisively put an end to the bully's easy life.

The author of the critically acclaimed Ain't No Bum and Bum Wakes Up, Dennis McCreight, is a Midwestern rooted wanderer of the world who became a story teller, dabbler in watercolors, and a record holding fisherman who lives in Dewey, Arizona with his wife Linda - the catch of his life