My Lefthanded, Backwards, Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short Stories by John F. Gardiner

My Lefthanded, Backwards, Upsidedown Life & Assorted Short Stories contains both my growing up and coming of age memoir, set in a small Canadian town during the 1950's and 1960's, in a time of great social change for young people the world over plus a number of fictional short stories which I call emotional thoughtscapes because of the vivid emotional images they create in the reader's mind. The memoir starts the day I am born and follows me through many adventures until I get married and life gets a whole lot more serious. It's about playing in the town band and later rock bands...taking cadets and suffering through initiation day at high school...trying to be a hippie and getting involved in the hippie drug subculture and going hitchhiking and so much more. Short stories include the tale of a young boy who gets his first bike....a story about a couple of kids who find some nudist magazines...the zany story about some young guys trying to get to the bar in a car with no brakes and lots more.