Babyboomer Memoirs

By Richard McBain

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971949492
• ISBN13: 9780971949492
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Bookstarts Pub Services
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Babyboomers Can Relate to This Man's Journey

Life is a journey. How many times have we heard that aphorism? Our response to that statement is generally not verbalized and treated simply as someone stating the obvious and not needing a comment. Some folks place a great deal of value on the journey itself, while others consider the goal to be most important. Another question that might be asked could be a search about what drives a person through this journey. Depending on one's perspective and station in life, the answers are protean to say the least. We tend to put a lot of stock in our perspective of things. How we judge something can have little to do with that which we are judging. How we see things is how we are. In other words, our perspective has virtually nothing to do with what we are viewing; our perspective is how we are and depends of us totally. How we perceive anything tells others more about us than it does about that being perceived.Having said all that, our perspective depends greatly on our beliefs. A Christian believer, for example, has a different perspective than a person who doesn't share Christian beliefs. A person, who believes in Jesus Christ as his personal Savior, views his or her world differently from a "non-believer" because he or she is different, not because the world is different. Again, our perspective says more about us than it does about the object of our perspective. Indeed, perspective has nothing to do with how something is; perspective defines how we are and says infinitely more about us. Even Christian believers approach to their Christian walk shows their perspective of Christianity, whether it is legalistic, emotional, flat, judgmental, angry, etc., tell others about them, not about Christianity.Babyboomer Memoirs is much more than a story about a man's life. It is one man's perspective of his life and the world and how that changed over time. It is enjoyable reading if, for no other reason, than reading a story is the reason it is picked up and read. It certainly takes the reader through the stages and events that have combined to shape Mr. McBain, as anyone who would meet him now would know him. This book by Richard L. McBain is a trip down his personal memory lane from the beginning to the present. Key to the importance of this book, however, is not the list of events experienced by him; this is a story about Mr. McBain's perspective on his life. The subtle and most easily missed aspect that underpins this story is how Mr. McBain changed. The world around him did change, but, for all intents and purposes, the critical study in this book is how Mr. McBain changed. Because he changed, his perspective changed. Accordingly, because his perspective changed, his life changed.Most of the events in this book will be familiar to anyone in their sixth and seventh decades of life-those of us in the 50s and early 60s years of age. The Vietnam War is the first and most obvious. The drug culture of the sixties along with the antiwar s

It was like being transported back in time!

I was utterly amazed at Richards?s ability to make a book come alive. I have written eleven books myself (self published) and thought that I could write. Richards writing kept me reading. Page after page was a trip back in time to four decades of a different world. It was like reading a story of my daily past. I wept at the sights, sounds, and smells of gowning up in the 50?s all over again. All of a sudden, my Mother, Sister, Cousins Aunts and Uncles were alive again and filling my memories with innocent holiday/family fun. My neighborhood buddies Slim, Porky, Lake, Cherry, and the Big Bopper were sitting on my back porch planning our next summer time adventure. I laughed at the silliness of my hippie generation mind that made me think that we were going to change the World into a Giant Woodstock. 57 Chevrolets, Root Beer Stands, Drive in Theaters, Elvis Presley, Rock and Roll, Dick Clark?s Bandstand, The Vietnam War, Agent Orange, Death and Dying were relived in Richard?s book. This book is well worth the trip to get it as well as the trip back in time! L.D. Jarrard Ph.D., National Executive Director for The American Society of Christian Therapists