This Normal Life

This is the work in progress of my journal and memoir.


Chapter 1: Okies

• part 1 - Introduction
  
• part 2 - Ponca City
  
• part 3 - Dad's Family
  
• part 4 - Dad's Baldness
  
• part 5 - My Mother
  
• part 6 - Mom's Family and Grandma Guier
  
• part 7 - Grandpa Guier
  
• part 8 - Grandma Harris
  
• part 9 - Grandpa Harris
  

Chapter 2: Introducing Michael and Scott

• part 1 - Peter and Elizabeth
  

Unassigned chapter material

• Babenhausen years, "Why I Don't Play Basketball"
  
• Piper years, "And now, for my father's story"
• Piper years, "Just a Little Brain Injury"
  
• Starkville years, "Welcome to Mississippi"
  
• Starkville years, "Jane's Magnolia"
  
• Starkville and Atlanta years, "Mother's Day comes early"
• Ponca years, "Goodnight, Grandpa"
  
• College years, "Soil, explained"
  
• Germany and Ponca years, "Freedom"
  
• College years, "Chunderbucket, Sir!"
  
• Ponca parents' years, "Someone's Been Sleeping in my Trough"
  
• Starkville years, "Big Red"
  

The more recent stuff, including Eddie and Luke is not yet included in TNL. My intention is to end TNL at the proposal of my marriage. I believe a little distance in time is need to write memoir material that has been fully digested in my subconscious. Therefore, Luke and Eddie will occupy TNL II - The Sequel.