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Predicament on a Roof

May 1, 2016July 18, 2017 dkellams

Jean Renoir, the great French film director, is credited with saying, “The only things that are important in life are

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    • A Mid-Century Memoir

      By: Dan Kellams
      Posted: July 12, 2017
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      “Exacting, unsentimental, and profoundly humane”– Anne Pierson Wiese, author of Floating City: Poems

      Mistaken for a King evokes the life of a small-town boy in the middle of the last century. The book distills the essence of childhood in a series of finely honed and often funny essays, recounting memorable events and adventures that occurred between the ages of five and twelve.

      Kids roamed free as sparrows in Marion, Iowa, during the 1940s. Untouched by television, they created their own amusement wherever they found it, in backyards, side streets, alleys, and pastures. Some readers will be transported to their own childhoods; others will be charmed by the recollections of young lives lived so spontaneously. Many will ponder what has been lost.

      The book “sings with crisp wit and gentle wisdom” writes poet Anne Pierson Wiese. Author Kellams patrols his old haunts, recalling memorable

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    • Predicament on a Roof

      By: dkellams
      Posted: May 1, 2016
      Category: Uncategorized
      Comments: 5

      Jean Renoir, the great French film director, is credited with saying, “The only things that are important in life are the things you remember.”

      I remember three boys sitting in a row on the roof of a garage, their knees pulled up under their chins, their arms wrapped around their legs. They aren’t supposed to be up there.

      I am one of the boys. My best friend, Tom, is another. I’m not sure who the other is. I’m pretty sure it’s not my younger brother, Pete.

      The garage is next to the house my parents built a few years earlier. We have ascended to the roof by putting a ladder against a tree next to the garage, climbing the ladder to a notch in the tree, scaling the tree up to a branch that hung out over the garage, then edging out on

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