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"Some of My Favorite People are Elephants: Memoirs of an Accidental Acrobat" is a collection of short stories chronicling the author's four years traveling with a traditional American circus in the mid-1980s--first as a musician, then (quite unintentionally) as an acrobat and flying trapeze artist. Each short story playfully hints at a life lesson learned by a carefree young man on his unusual journey to adulthood.

Fathers and sons. The bond is as old as time itself. One often hears the term, ‘blood is thicker than water’ when referring to the importance of family relations. Some would say that the father/son bond is the strongest example of that paradigm. Bud and Trip find that this is not always the case, especially when they are working together on large or dangerous projects around the farmstead where actual blood may be involved.

Old Marietta Wipply had a soft spot for Bud. She also had a surprise for him, if only he would come over for tea and snacks on Monday afternoon and pay her a visit. Between all the work that needed to be done on the farmstead and his job at the university, there was scarcely any time for such an indulgence, but he made an exception for the sweet, old dowager. Her fondness of Bud was second only to her love of cats and birds, which she kept in great numbers in her small, but comfortable house. What was her surprise? Well, let’s go find out!