On July 10, 2023, the first shipment of my memoir Leaving Linda: A Moonie from the Boonies arrived. Needless to say, I was overjoyed. It’s been a long hard slog. Leaving Linda.
As someone who when he first heard the word semicolon thought it was a birth defect, I needed a lot of help. Most of that assistance is recognized in the “Acknowledgements” section of my book. You can read that section, along with chapters one and two, in the “Look inside” or “Read Sample” feature on Amazon.
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This is a post of images from Leaving Linda for audiobook listeners and others.
Chapter One – Axe Man
Chapter Two – Down by the Riverside
2A – Skippy
2B – Dad and Mom Get Married
Flooded potato field Chapter Three – Westward Bound
Chapter Four – What IF?
Chapter Five – Linda
Johnnie’s Market across the street from Linda Elementary Chapter Six – Linda Elementary
Chapter Seven – Jell-O Jerky Blues
Chapter Eight – Backyard Gold
Chapter Nine – A Bountiful Day
Chapter Ten – Peaches and Creatures
Chapter Eleven – The Dirt Road
11A – Mobile Horticulture
Chapter Twelve – Pig Stories
Chapter Thirteen – I Want Jesus on My Team!
Chapter Fourteen – Gatekeeper
Chapter Fifteen – Charlie Brown Days
Chapter Sixteen – Girding My Loins
Chapter Seventeen – Yuba College
1959 – Dunning Ave. Linda Chapter Nineteen – My Brother’s Keeper
Chapter Twenty – Leaving Linda
Margaret McMillan , Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsChapter Twenty-One – Mining the Mind
Chapter Twenty-Two – Roommates
Chapter Twenty-Four – Bar Boy Bob
Chapter Twenty-Five – Purpose
25A – C.F. Gilbertson (Slim)
Chapter Twenty-Seven – Running Stop Signs
Chapter Twenty-Eight – Ramblin’ and Gamblin”
Chapter Twenty-Nine – Alone in Sin City
Vegas roommate with his girlfriend Chapter Thirty – Vegas Vignettes
Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Migrant workers’ camp, outskirts of Marysville, California, 1935loc.gov/item/2017759582/ . Chapter Thirty-One – Seek and Find
Marysville, California Chapter Thirty-Two – Seeking
Chapter Thirty-Three – Sunshine and Magpies
Blind men and an elephant. Illustrator unknown , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Chapter Thirty-Four – A Leap of Faith
Chapter Thirty-Six – Finding
Martin Schongauer , Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsChapter Thirty-Seven – Brother Bob
Chapter Thirty-Eight – Million Dollar Experience
Chapter Thirty-Nine – The Fugitive
Chapter Forty – The Fugitive continued
Chapter Forty-Two – Moonie on the Block!
Chapter Forty-Three – Butterflies ‘n’ Beer
Chapter Forty-five – Shoeless Bob
Chapter Forty-Six – Cross Bar Hotels
Chapter Forty-Seven – Danny Boy
Me and Maree in 1982 Chapter Forty-Eight – The Blessing
Ted Patrick – “The father of deprogramming” Chapter Forty-Nine – Snuff Rings and Darker Things
My wife’s memoir Chapter Fifty – Free Maree!
N. N. , Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsChapter Fifty-One – Land of the Long White Cloud
Chapter Fifty-Two – Knocked Up
Keith Richards by Machocarioca , Public domain, via Wikimedia Common sChapter Fifty-Three – Guess Who’s Coming to Invercargill
Chapter Fifty-Four – Barter Bob
Amedee Guillemin , Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsChapter Fifty-Five – Shooting Stars
1984 – Fish BusinessChapter Fifty-Six – St. Louis Fish House
Dirt road to our house Chapter Fifty-Seven – Country Roads
Chapter Fifty-Eight – Downhill
Sacramento Protest Chapter Fifty-Nine – Hugged by God
Dad and his fruit stand Chapter Sixty – Eye Patches in the Holding Tank
Beale Falls Memorial to Daniel Farris Chapter Sixty-One – Shooting Star Thistles
In front of ship Maree couldn’t board Afterword
About the Author
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Stories about growing up in Linda, California, my life in the Unification Church and..other stuff..
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