Larry Rubin 
His Eyes Were on the Starling 
How Grampa Grew Up—And Lived to Tell About It

Occasionally, a reader will happen upon a book that is excellent as a bedtime sleeping aidbut not this one. With nearly five score different events, happenings, and adventures with dozens of related and pertinent rabbit trails lending credence to the excursions, the reader will be thumb ready to eagerly flip a page, seeking the outcome of the last daring deed of the adventuresome author. Wide is the variety of decent and noble escapades at a time when seat belts were unknown, standing up in the center aisle of the school bus for six miles was permitted, and unwritten laws of the land promoted unlimited homemade adventures and the unshackled variety of down-to-earth fun. Youthful minds, unabashedly, often ran rampant in the myriad of rare adventures that were available to pursue. We attempted many and lived to tell about our assorted and varied shenanigansmost of them with a grin!

About the author

The author grew up in the country as a child, survived a myriad of close calls, was at death’s door, and completed a four-year tour of duty in the US Marine Corps, including time in the Asia-Pacific theater, which allowed him to live in many parts of the third world. Earning a private pilot’s license and then spending seven years in frigid Alaska expanded his perspective even farther.