The world is a mess. I thought it needed a book that was fun and easy to read. This book is it. It takes you through the tears and terrors of childhood, the mess-ups of middle school, and a raft of stupidities that can only come from that swamp called adolescence. I will have succeeded if the book releases your own memories from days gone by.

Bill Gralnick has been writing ever since his mother said, "Little Pishers" should be seen not heard." As a teen, he wrote over five hundred love letters to his girlfriend. As an adult he has written almost nine hundred op-ed pieces for newspapers around the country--four have appeared in USA Today. This is his third book. There are three more in the hopper.