In Our Own Sweet Time

About the Book

This amusing tale is a biography, of sorts. For it is a biography not of one individual but of a portion of the generation of kids born in America in the mid-1940s. Their adventures and misadventures, missteps and mischief, and learning and yearning spring forth as they thrive in what many today consider far simpler and happier times. And, in this nostalgic look at part of America’s past, the reader might discover ways to help future generations of children grow into their own sweet time and prevent perils imposed by others.

About the Author

The author was born and raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which is where most of this story occurs. He earned bachelor and master’s degrees in journalism from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a former commissioned officer, United States Marine Corps, and has been a newspaper reporter, a corporate communications executive, and an adjunct professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University. He and his wife, Judith, have two children and five grandchildren. They live in Central Virginia, in an area known as The Wilderness.