False Starts: Mistakes & Missteps Growing Up In The 70S

I recently opened up my chest of childhood memories, faced a decade I had long since forgotten, and wrote these words: "It was the hippest of times. It was the funkiest of times. It was the 1970s." And I grew up right there in the middle of it. I won talent shows. I went to camp. I fought the school bully for the honor of the girl I loved. I lost my father... But having just turned 50, I decided the time had come to take an honest look at those years without the tinted lens of nostalgia, which allowed me to remember so much more. I never told the girl I defended that I loved her. I barely survived camp. No amount of talent show victories brought my father back and, to be honest, my memories weren't as accurate as I thought they were. The 70's were a swirling minefield filled with a family destroyed by poverty and divorce, horrible TV shows, bad disco on AM radio, wretched food... and the only saving grace a child like me had was Pong. My teachers tried to put me on drugs. My sister taught me the art of shoplifting. My best friend was Burp Boy. Life was a series of constant set-backs, a barrage of defeats, embarrassments, and false starts. And I wouldn't change a thing.

• | Author: Ken La Salle
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Oct 08, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 270 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1539106322
• | ISBN-13: 9781539106326