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Aging Comes Without a Manual
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The aging process is a sneaky son-of-a-gun. It begins by lurking around the edges of one’s life and occasionally darting into your person to take a bite out of your well-being. It then zips back into shadows and waits for the next opportunity to reappear and take another bite out of your youth, your appearance, your confidence, and/or your already fragile self-confidence. You’d like to grab it and strangle it, but it’s always just out of sight and out of reach.
Each bite it takes out of one’s existence leaves the victim a little less capable of ignoring the damage done by the attacks and a little less able to ignore their cumulative effects.
Fighting against aging is a losing battle, but we do have a good shot at enjoying the many good parts of it. Aging Comes Without a Manual is a humorous look at aging and the notion that “seventy is the new fifty.”
published April 2024
Homer: A Tornado Wrapped In Barbed Wire
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Homer: A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed Wire chronicles the hardships Homer Eubanks and many others faced during the first half of the 20th Century, poverty, World War I, the Spanish Flu that killed more than fifty million people worldwide, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and World War II, a time that ran over the weak and produced a generation of strong, tough, battle-scarred folks who dealt with more adversity than anyone deserved in one lifetime.
Born in 1908 in Hamilton, Texas, Homer was a sharecropper’s son whose journey started with no money, an eighth-grade education, eight siblings who loved him, and an inner strength that served him well in the face of huge challenges and moments of danger. As much history as biography, HOMER A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed Wire, reveals a time when families pooled their meager assets, blood, sweat, and tears to help each other cope with economic stress and other angry circumstances that fought to hold them in the darkness as they strained to reach the light. People relied on the kindnesses and help of others as they clawed their ways in the direction of respectability and a modicum of success.
published October 2021
Puberty Drove the Car: I was just along for the ride
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PUBERTY DROVE THE CAR, I Was Just Along for the Ride, is a nostalgic look back at maybe the most confusing and change-filled time in my life – junior and senior high schools. Slices of life that were so serious to me when they happened in the 1950s and 1960s during my tender years, now reveal themselves as quite humorous.
I held a few secrets back when I wrote this memoir – mainly to keep from embarrassing any of my classmates - of my junior and senior high years, but, for the most part, I let in all hang out. I think (and, of course, hope) you will enjoy these mostly-true tales of my trip along the pothole-filled road to manhood.
You’ll learn of my first encounters with communal showers, gambling, boob-touching, and a whole slew of puberty-related incidents. I’ll bet you some of these tales will ring true to you, and may even cause you to have flashbacks about your times bouncing around in the bubble of puberty.
Enjoy!
published January 2020
Mad Dogs, Marbles, & Rock Fights
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A happy, entertaining romp through the recollections of a young boy growing up in a small East Texas town in the 1950s and the adventures he shared with his friends.
Author's Note: While Mad Dogs, Marbles, and Rock Fights is certainly somewhat autobiographical, it is also biographical about the town of Marshall, Texas, the decade of the 1950s in America and the band of kids that went through South Marshall Elementary together.
published April 2017