RANDOM STORIES

Apparently unable to stop writing about himself, the memoir Random Stories follows Bob's childhood tales in Growing Up Nerd, his career in broadcasting in Radio Daze, experiences in theater, teaching, and music in Leftovers, and two books about travel with You Can Get There From Here and More Travels With Susie. These stories range widely from his first plane flight, to Chicken Pox, to buying a house, to insurance company dramas, and to grandchildren with many stops in between. Most of the text is lighthearted, but a few of the short chapters deal with weightier topics such as sexual harassment and our political divide. Without much tying one story to another the reader has the option of simply picking titles from the table of contents. Due to the small nature of each chapter a better title might have been The Bathroom Reader. Sadly, that title had already been chosen by someone else.