Pins, Needles and Thorns

About the Book

PINS, TICKLES AND THORNS is a real story written by a troubled man in great mental pain.   The mental pain becomes physical pain when he tries to put on paper what that pain is…what caused that pain and, most of all, why.  The book reveals stories about cheating wives and stupid husbands and what they have to do with the writer’s pain.  The locations are worldwide showing that these problems are not assigned to any one location but are universal.  The writing style changes, sometimes abrubtly, depending on the mental anguish of the writer at the time.  Telling a nice love story of his first real love is written tenderly and softly.  As he begins to recognize possible causes of this pain the writing may be bitter, angry, sad and sometimes apologetic.  This book was not intended to be a “book”, it was intended to solve the writer’s problem.  Make that, “problems”.  How many affairs does it take to turn a seemingly sexually satisfied man into a ”porcupine turned inside out”?  Occasionally some comments are in italics.   The writer recognizes that some of his comments are not going to be believed by some readers, especially older women.  The comments in italics are an attempt to let readers know that his comments are not intended to make the reader think what he does and says is “normal”, they were normal for this writer.  The writer’s pain is revealed in the changes in writing style.   A lot of dots, double spacing on some pages, and abrupt endings of some chapters are only expressions of his pain, his words show him trying to find the answers to his painful questions.  Of course all names and places have been changed to protect the guilty.

About the Author

Wolf is really "Wolfe".  The "e" was dropped since there seems to be a very large number of Wolfes writing these days.  This Wolf doesn't want to contaminate the other Wolfes.

Wolf (Bob) started moving around once he left Pennsylvania at the age of five.  After normal schooling in N.J., a start in college at Wilkes College in PA, a two-year stint in the army in Oklahoma, three years in college in Indiana to get a BSCE in Civil Engineering, and a few other years in N.J. working as an engineer, Wolf decided to travel. Between the work in N.J. and the meeting of the third wife in Africa, Wolf had lived and worked in Viet Nam, Thailand, Iran, England, and Germany with frequent visits to Belgium. Holland, Lebanon, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Greece, Italy and some places he voluntarily forgets.  He still speaks fluent German at home, has spoken Italian, had a good handle on spoken Thai, got by in Farsi (Persian), has some trouble remembering English and talks and writes in “plain English”.