My Trip to Mardi Gras

About the Book

The main story of this book is about eight months out on the road in the seventies, hitchhiking across the country twice. I also wrote two smaller short stories. “The Rise and Fall of a Dictator” is about teaching at a high school and “My Affair with Katrina” is about living through a natural disaster. I know what you’re thinking. I know you’re tired of reading stories about hitchhiking, teaching, and Katrina. I’ll bet that if you had a dollar for all the stories you’ve read lately about those three subjects, you could retire too. Why can’t anyone think up something new like vampires and zombies.

About the Author

I left the small town that I grew up in when I was eighteen with a desire for adventure. That story is “My Trip to Mardi Gras.” I married the woman I met during that Mardi Gras and had a son when I was twenty. I spent the next fifteen years surviving life while raising a family (three children and a wife) with a variety of jobs. I worked at two different paint companies, worked at a lumber yard for three and a half years, worked for Crazy Charlie doing offshore housing, worked at a shipyard on the Mississippi River, did renovation work in Uptown New Orleans, and built fiberglass boats for years. I acquired a wide range of knowledge and skills. At the tender age of twenty-nine, I enrolled in college and graduated a mere seven years later with a degree in secondary math education. I spent twenty-five years teaching math (mostly geometry) at a small high school in Louisiana. I am recently retired and looking forward to facing another phase of my life. I have acquired a talent for spewing my own brand of bull in all phases of my life.