Uncle Joe and His Sister Flo: Through the Eyes of Bunny - Softcover

The author graduated on time from the prestigious and very parochial St. Mary’s High School of Royal Oak, Michigan in 1971. After a year of classical training as a short-order cook, he matriculated at the equally prestigious local Community College, which he alternately referred to at the time as a “glorified high school with a budget” and a “finishing school for morons.” After orientation at the campus, he requested and was granted a refund on his admission fee, which he later explained to his mother as a move that had prevented her from wasting a lot of money on a worthless exercise. After marrying his high school sweetheart and making the quintessential error of moving “out-state” to the rural “Thumb” area of Michigan and going into an ill-fated business venture with his father-in-law, he then failed in his own first small business foray, and relocated back to “civilization.” Once firmly re-ensconced in Metro-Detroit, he set out on an equally ill-fated twenty year odyssey in the wine and liquor industry. During this period our hero fathered three adorable daughters, which he saw more of after the inevitable divorce, than he had before. Although becoming a highly respected manager, merchandiser and trainer with a good palate and many connections, he ultimately also failed in a subsequent second business venture, and then became an avid listener of the Rush Limbaugh radio program. Firmly settled now in middle age and realizing that his greatest accomplishment to-date was having attended twenty consecutive Detroit Tigers opening day baseball games, he began to self-reflect and re-assess. Eventually, as most members of the baby-boomer generation did, he then decided to make a mid-life change. So he moved east to free-load off of his brother for a couple of years in New Jersey. Wearing out his welcome, he finally embarked on a new career in the computer re-selling business. Having never sat in front of a computer previously, he was obviously the perfect choice for that position. He learned well and eventually found employment in the staffing industry. This move eventually led to not only his gainful employment for the next fifteen years, but to a marriage and a fourth daughter. Today he is “on sabbatical” having remodeled the house, undergone open-heart surgery and finally, finishing this book. He works out most every day, eats a healthy diet as dictated by his wife, the “food Nazi,” and fulfills his current role as Mr. Mom. It's a life!