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Two Inch Heels Part 45 - Home

It was still Tuesday December 11 and I sat in the front passenger seat of our old Buick Skylark that my mom was driving home from Detroit Metro airport. My brother was in the back seat and my backpack...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 16 - Roomette (December 1958)

Pullman Roomette[Note: Having finished my backpacking through Europe memoir, Two Inch Heels, I'm returning to writing a more imagined "memoir" of my life starting at age three. This is chapter 16. If...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 17 - Westwood Court

My mom, aunt Pat & grandpa GeorgeIt was still dark but mom and dad said it was morning. I wondered if in this “Binghamton” place it was dark in the morning. Mom had David in her arms, and he looked...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 18 - Christmas

It was still dark in the house and out the window in grandma and grandpa’s backyard. I so wanted it to finally be morning, Christmas morning, that I could hardly sleep all night. I just kept having...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 19 - Molly's 4th Birthday (February 1959)

Mom, dad and I crossed the street from our house walking through lots of snow, which mom said was “fresh” and also “beautiful”. David had stayed at home with Margie, who was “the babysitter”, and mom...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 20 - Spring (March 1959)

When I woke up this morning I knew something was different. It FELT different. David was standing in his crib looking out the window across the room from my bed. The sunlight was coming in that window...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 21 - My 4th Birthday (April 1959)

I woke up and I knew it was a special day, my birthday PARTY day! My real birthday was two days ago, but mom said today was a better day to have the party, because it was the “weekend”, and more people...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 22 - Almendinger Park (July 1959)

It was summer, and we kept the windows open all the time, except when it rained, because mom loved “fresh air”. She said it “kept her going” and she didn’t like “feeling all closed in”. Every morning...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 23 - The Swat

I woke up. I heard the sounds of guns shooting and people yelling.“Get your boots on and grab your rifle”, someone said, “The soldiers have found us, and our only chance is to get across the river!”I...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 24 - Nursery School (September 1959)

I was in the backyard of this house I had never seen before when mom left me here this morning, now sitting at this long table with a bunch of other boys.  Some were my age and some were a little...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 25 - Play School (October 1959)

“So I think it’s good that Khrushchev and his wife came to tour the U.S.” mom said, as she drove the car down Main street on a windy Monday morning with those big white puffy clouds like giant islands...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 26 - Wiffenpoof (October 1959)

Dad got mad today because the Michigan football team lost. He was down in his office part of the basement listening to the man on the radio saying what the teams were doing in the game. I was playing...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 27 - Margie

Mom told me that Margie was going to come over after dinner to babysit David and me. Mom and dad were going to someone else's house to play that “Bridge” game. I’d seen them play it once, but I’m not...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 28 - Felix (November 1959)

I felt some cold on my nose so I opened my eyes. The wind was blowing outside and the window by my bed creaked. It wasn’t nighttime any more but there was no sunshine, just gray light outside that...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 29 - The Wizard of Oz (December 1959)

Mom said a special “movie musical” was going to be on TV and she thought I would really like watching it. Molly said that even her mom was telling her about it too, which was strange because Molly’s...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 30 - The Arb

“So you’re taking Coop to the Arb to try out the sled”, mom said to dad, as he tied my shoes.I was able to put my black rubber boots on myself, because they had those “buckle” things that I could hook...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 31 - Molly's 5th Birthday (February 1960)

We were getting ready to go to Molly’s birthday party. She was now five but I was still four. Mom said I was “four and five sixths”, but that was still four. I watched her put that red stuff on her...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 32 - Bicycle (March 1960)

I felt someone banging their hand on my shoulder and I heard someone saying “Coo”, over and over so I opened my eyes.  I was in bed under the covers and David was looking at me and hitting me with his...

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Why I Write

Me age 15I continue to podcast chapters of my autobiographical novel based on my odyssey backpacking through Western Europe in 1973 at age 18. There appear to be at least a handful of people who are...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 33 - Captain Nemo (March 1960)

So the four of us sat at the kitchen table and had “Roberts Spaghetti” for dinner again. Even David ate it now, though mom cut his up into really small pieces. I don’t think mom liked it very much, but...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 34 - My 5th Birthday (April 1960)

Today was Saturday and it was my birthday. Mom made eggs and toast for breakfast instead of me just making my own cereal. The four of us sat at the table in the kitchen eating.“Eric”, mom said, “I...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 35 - Streetlights (April 1960)

Dad said he’d “watch” David so mom and I could go over to a “meeting” at Paul’s house. As mom and I walked down the street between our house and the park I was thinking that I wasn’t sure what a...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 36 - Scenery (May 1960)

Molly and her mom came over.  Molly came down in the basement to play with me while mom and Molly’s mom talked in the kitchen.  Molly had a “Sky King” toy airplane that her dad had got her.  We played...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 37 - Hardball (June 1960)

It was morning, and David and I finished eating our Cheerios for breakfast.   Mom had brought some of David’s toys that he liked to play with up from the basement and put them in the living room.  Then...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 38 - Ted Williams (June 1960)

I was excited. Dad and I were going to go to a Detroit Tigers baseball game with Molly and her dad. Dad said that mom and David should come too, but mom didn’t want to.“I would love to see the game”,...

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Clubious Incarnate Part 39 - The Lost Word (July 1960)

“There’s the theater”, mom said, pointing to the right as she drove the car. It had this big sign with words on it. Above the sign were even bigger letters on top that spelled the word “MICHIGAN” in...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 40 - Dinosaurs (July 1960)

After watching that “Lost World” movie I couldn’t stop thinking about dinosaurs.  Mom said they lived a long long time ago, before there were any people.  I guess they were in charge of things back...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 41 - Naked (August 1960) LAST CHAPTER!!!

THIS IS THE 41ST AND LAST CHAPTER OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL ABOUT MY LIFE FROM AGE 3 TO AGE 5!!!Molly was “moving”.  That meant that she and her mom were going to live in a different house and not...

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Clubius Contained Part 1 - Regular School (September 1960)

Me at age 5 and Bach School circa 1960Mom and I were sitting in one of those “office” places, like dad’s in the basement.  But this one was in this regular school place called “Bach School” (pronounced...

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Clubious Contained Part 2 - President (October 1960)

It was a new month, October, when mom said the leaves on a lot of the trees would be changing colors and then falling off onto the ground. I was now walking to school by myself and I had to walk...

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Clubius Contained Part 3 - Dinosaurs (November 1960)

It was Saturday and mom took me over to Molly’s new house like she did last Saturday.  We drove to the end of our street to where the giant high school was, and then turned left on the “Stadium”...

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Clubius Contained Part 4 - Blue Books (January 1961)

I really liked listening to stories that dad or mom read to me from a book. Most of the stories mom used to read to me had pictures on every page and just words on part of the page around the picture....

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Clubius Contained Part 5 - My 6th Birthday (April 1961)

I woke up to the wind blowing against the window by my bed. It felt cold like that wind was getting inside too. My bed was now on top of David’s because they were “bunk beds”. I looked over the edge...

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Clubius Incarnate Part 6 - Last Day of School (June 1961)

Bach SchoolI could smell those lilac bushes with all the big bunches of little purple flowers as I walked by them into the park towards the trees on the other side. Mom had told me about the seasons,...

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Clubius Contained Part 7 - Day Trip (August 1961)

The summer didn’t take as long as it used to. I did all the same kind of stuff, playing in the basement, in the backyard, in the park. Playing with Paul or Danny or Gabe, or Molly on Saturdays. Riding...

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Clubius Contained Part 8 - Second Grade (October 1961)

I liked looking out the big windows in my second grade classroom at school. That side of the room was all windows, looking out onto the corner of Jefferson and Fifth streets. There were four corners....

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Clubius Contained Part 9 - Rivals (November 1961)

Herbie said he knew about the Civil War because he had lived in the “South” before he came to Ann Arbor.  He said the Confederates were the “rebels”, and all the kids he knew thought they were pretty...

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Clubius Contained Part 10 - Civil War Cards (March 1962)

I heard the window by my bed rattling and I could feel cold coming from it. I opened my eyes. I looked at the clock on my dresser and the little hand was closer to the “8” than it was to the “7”. I had...

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Clubius Contained Part 11 - The Rock

One of the thousands of paint jobs of the Ann Arbor "Rock" over the past 80 plus years!It was Saturday and mom drove me over to Molly’s house, but this time she didn’t “drop me off” but stayed too, to...

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Clubius Contained Part 12 - Jinx Island

I was listening to songs on the radio a lot now.  There were three songs this summer that I had heard a lot on the radio and were interesting because they were different from each other. Two of them...

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Clubius Contained Part 13 - Third Grade (October 1962)

Last night I was watching TV, but mom came down and said she wanted “to hear what President Kennedy has to say about what’s happening in Cuba.” Dad was already down in the basement at his desk. He...

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Clubius Contained Part 14 - Football Saturday (November 1962)

I woke up and I could hear the rain tapping on the window by my bed. Not hard like a storm, but just a little bit like what mom called “showers”. I always liked waking up on Saturday morning, because I...

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Clubius Contained Part 15 - Long Division (January 1963)

“So what you doing in math these days, mister Clubius?” mom asked as I was eating a baloney sandwich I had made for myself in the kitchen, and she was making a “big pot of spaghetti sauce for dinner”...

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Clubius Contained Part 16 - Mary (April 1963)

I was over at Joey’s house. We had both just played in what the older kids called a “pickup” baseball game at Allmendinger Park. That was where two of the older kids decided to be the captains, and the...

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Clubius Contained Part 17 - Little League (June 1963)

I was extra happy that day third grade was finally done. The last day of school each June was already my favorite day of the year, even better than Christmas or my birthday. On those two days I got...

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Clubius Contained Part 18 - Saugatuck

“Cooper, wake up”, dad whispered, and I felt something shaking my foot under my covers, “Molly’s here and it’s time for your big trip.” I had trouble opening my eyes and figuring out what was going on....

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Clubius Contained Part 19 - Fourth Grade (September 1963)

My fourth grade teacher, Mrs Larkin, was different than all the other teachers I had had. I mean, she was a regular grownup like my third grade teacher Mrs Rodney and my second grade teacher Mrs...

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Clubius Contained Chapter 20 - Assassinated (November 1963)

I was excited that even though it was Friday, I didn’t have to go to school today. Mom said there were “parent-teacher conferences” instead of a regular school day, and she walked to my school, instead...

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Clubius Contained Part 21 - D-Day (January 1964)

The biggest present I got for Christmas was from “Santa”, which I knew now was really mom and dad. But mom wanted to keep pretending that Santa was real, maybe for David, because he was still a little...

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Clubius Contained Part 22 - Panic Attack (April 1964)

Aunt Pat kissed me on the cheek, looked at me and said, “Tell your mom I’m thinking of her and that you and your Aunt ‘Hant’ Pat had a great time together and you're welcome back any time!” I nodded...

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