Serendipitous Hodgepodge & the Kitchen Sink

Description

I created a title I hope gives an intriguing hint of the book’s content — a hodgepodge mostly of true experiences I wanted to write about, but not one of which by itself is of book or short story length.
I chose Serendipitous because many of the experiences happened entirely by chance and turned out to be extraordinary and wonderfully amazing. I added & the Kitchen Sink to give me an excuse to include other totally unrelated items I tacked on simply because I wanted to and had no other publication in which to place them.

This publication is the first in which I have permitted myself to write about personal experiences. Some involve meeting totally by chance a number of famous people. A few others are tributes to people who were life-changing mentors even though neither they nor I knew it at the time. Still others are about people and events I found fascinating, or tragic, as is my personal remembrance of the 1970 plane crash in which 36 members of the Marshall University football team and 39 others perished.