Contents
Preface: Growing Up
Chapter One: Early Years and Building the Imagination
Chapter Two: Theater of the Mind
Chapter Three: My Early World
Chapter Four: Extended Family
Chapter Five: Superboy of Enright Avenue
Chapter Six: Eugene Field Elementary School
Chapter Seven: The Batmobile and the Mack Truck
Chapter Eight: The Ice Age
Chapter Nine: Watch What You Think
Chapter Ten: Flash Flood in Cuivre River State Park
Chapter Eleven: Tear the Roof Off the Sucker
Chapter Twelve: The Marvel Comics Group
Chapter Thirteen: April 4, 1968
Chapter Fourteen: Memories of Sumner High School
Chapter Fifteen: Ambushed at Dinner
Chapter Sixteen: Fish Eye, Politics, and Malcolm X
Chapter Seventeen: Vietnam and the Beginning of Activism
Chapter Eighteen: The Windy City
Chapter Nineteen: Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Chapter Twenty: Moving the Cat
Chapter Twenty-One: Moonlighting as the Real Me
Chapter Twenty-Two: Up in Smoke
Chapter Twenty-Three: Call 911
Chapter Twenty-Four: Python in the Night Club
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Black Repertory Company of St. Louis
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Mountain Goat in Me
Chapter Twenty-Seven: My Dinner With John John
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Whoa—Big Boy!
Chapter Twenty-Nine: This “New Thing Called Storytelling”
Chapter Thirty: I Don’t Know If I Hit Forty or Forty Hit Me
Chapter Thirty-One: The Aurora Borealis at 35,000 Feet
Chapter Thirty-Two: Critter Encounters
Chapter Thirty-Three: The Vizsla and The Doggie Slobber
Chapter Thirty-Four: Tension in the Foyer
Chapter Thirty-Five: Discoveries on a Not-So-Dark Continent
Chapter Thirty-Six: First Comes Love
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Swan Song
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Alaskan Adventures in Storytelling
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Elephant and the Dandelion
Chapter Forty: Attack of the Killer Holsteins
Chapter Forty-One: Bell Rock
Chapter Forty-Two: Big Cats and Little Stars
Chapter Forty-Three: The Popcorn Box or Bobby in the Lobby
Chapter Forty-Four: Niagara Falls
Chapter Forty-Five: Mt. Bromo, East Java, Indonesia
Chapter Forty-Six: Ball Lightning
Chapter Forty-Seven: Tinkerbelle
Chapter Forty-Eight: Hagrid’s Bug
Chapter Forty-Nine: The Hood
Chapter Fifty: The Visual Beauty on the Windward Shore of Oahu
Chapter Fifty-One: Bats in the Belfry
Chapter Fifty-Two: Sharing the Fire
Story and the Subconscious Mind: An Afterword