This little book is a lively, autobiographical account by Jim Lacey, cheerful skeptic, college teacher, novelist, sailor, lousy golfer, sojourner abroad, resident of Brooklyn, NY, and romantic Willimantic, CT. Experience kids' street games, ice-cream parlors and pubs, nun-run grammar school, college pranks, life with street people, misadventures in the military, an idyllic romance, and much more!