More Ruminations of a Bird Brain - Vols 1 & 2

by Robert Carlson

Overview

In a town located on the northern banks of the Monongahela River as it flows northward from Fairmont, West Virginia, and passes a city called Pittsburgh, it meets the Allegheny River and flows past "The Strip" to form the Ohio River that wends its way down to Cairo, Illinois, -- it is in The Strip District that we meet an audacious pigeon convinced he had been-- in a former life -- a human being. This is his story. In a way, it's a romp, but in another way, a touching tale.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151229395
Publisher:	Robert Carlson
Publication date:	03/11/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	96 KB

About the Author

Robert Carlson has been the observer of the world for many decades. His "neighborhood" in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh continually grew from the modest dimensions of the house where he first lived and the extents of the backyard to the world at large. Each stage in his development into an adult was marked by a change of venue and enlargement of the size of the neighborhood. Eight years as an urban-dweller in the 1960s shaped a large part of his life. Early in his life, he started writing imaginative stories, themes, and chronologies. Many of those early texts were handwritten tablets of paper consisting of terrible grammar and atrocious spelling. His 9th Grade English teacher once wrote on a theme "Nice imaginative work, but may I suggest that you buy a good dictionary or at least get a girlfriend who can spell." He got the girlfriend.
He eventually got "spellcheck" and improved immeasurably.
Many of the characters and locations presented in this book (and all the others) are drawn from those early tablets. Mr. Carlson, as he is formally known, although Bob will do, continually chronicles the things he does, the places he goes and the events that happen to him at the time they are happening such that they are fresh in his mind and is able to capture and present the nuances of the times, people and places.
Writing is only half the recording that he has done. The other half is in the photography that he does of architectural details, things falling down, Street Coins, bridges, roofs and railroads. The works are left-brain and right-brain, employed equally well.
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About the Narrator
He's a pigeon. A bird brain.