The Time of My Life: Essays
Published on 13. September 2016
220 pages
978-1-941531-43-3 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of personal essays written between 1976 and 1983 for The Dallas Times Herald. They have a universality and a timelessness that makes them suitable for a much wider audience than the population of one urban area of Texas. What jumps out in these essays is not so much the actions within, so much as Bryan Woolley's reactions to these actions and events.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Time of Her Life
- But They Chose Ford
- King Dolph and the Eagles
- A Quiet Tear for Other Days
- His Town Is His Monument
- A Boy of Summer Grows Older
- How It Was, Is, and Will Be
- A Love Song and Its Sorry End
- February Hath Not What It Takes Nor Reason to Be
- Book Writers and Book Burners
- Hanging around the Alamo
- A Blessing on the Inventor of Kites
- The Widow's Cane
- Einstein in the Davis Mountains
- Why Bosses Don'
- t Like Cats
- Rites of Passage at Six Flags
- Machines That Work
- The Old Scotchman and Me
- The Difficulty of Saying Thanks
- Postage to Los Angeles
- A Study in Courage
- To the Residents of A.D. 2029
- Listen to the Mockingbird
- Mockingbirds: The Other Side
- The Mystery of the Sea
- When the Family Got Together
- The First Lady Writes a Letter
- Speaking of Dallas
- Camp Meeting Time
- Disarming the Airport Kid
- Pussycat and Mockingbird
- A Sad Little Note
- An Ode to Firewood
- Jimmy's Smooch and His Reasons
- A Texas Gothic Horror Story Ends at Last
- Radical Ideas in the Education Biz
- A Stolen Car and a Stolen Soul
- When Ma Bell Doesn'
- t Want to Talk
- Heroes Are Where You Find Them
- A Fable or Parable or Something
- Then Along Came Dick Cockrell
- Hollywood and the Two Thomases
- National Letter Writing Week
- When Spring Is in the Neighborhood
- Immortality Is a Lot of Trouble
- A Perfect Toy in an Imperfect World
- Missing a Few Stops on Memory Lane
- A Couple of Days Away from It All
- Youthful Fantasies and the Sands of Time
- Seeing Butch Again
- How Much an Inch of Rain Is Worth
- On Burros and Gentle Understanding
- A Chance Encounter in a Dark Park
- Who's Buried in Lee Oswald's Grave?
- No Shortage of Causes
- The Only Bad Thing About Summer
- Love Story: Man Meets Bicycle
- So We Went a Little Prematurely Crazy
- Dan Allender's Real Deal
- An Evening of Video Democracy
- My First Visit to the Statue of Liberty
- Needless Worry About Snowless Christmases
- Friendly Enforcers of an Unfriendly Law
- They Had Better Leave Well Enough Alone
- That Sinking Dallas Feeling
- Oh! A Kite in the Evening Wind
- Clean Closets and Clean Minds
- Small Gifts and Special Memories
- Isabel, Pussycat, and Me
- Me and Jack Pardee
- The Time of Our Live
