A Different Drummer

<p>For 12 years Bill Vossler published a monthly column in the St. Cloud Times newspaper on his unusual growing-up life ranging from the desertion of his father when he was three to being told at 18 that he was the world's worst whiner. His pieces dealt with the near-death of a bully loving to deliver newspapers every day for nine years free from adult interference building a baseball stadium missing his dad moving across the street from a huge empty lot where he discovered ancient fossils of extinct beasts and playing baseball with his friend 39-year-old Ervin. This book also includes pieces from adulthood as well. Vossler has been a professional writer for more than 40 years and during that time has published 4250 articles essays short stories poems one play and 19 books.</p>