Teetering on the Brink: stories and sketches

This is a collection of about thirty humorous stories and sketches that focus on the author's retirement experiences in the mountains of Norther Arkansas. After a long career in teaching, including 27 years at an inner-city high school in Houston, he drops out and literally heads for the hills. Prepared for disappointment, disillusionment, and idleness--perhaps boredom--he instead finds himself encountering surprise, delight, challenge passtion, even wonder--and cultural shock. He builds things with tools, picks berries, attends auctions and pie suppers, communes with Bambi and Thumper, climbs mountains, explores bottomless pits, baits tourists at scenic overlooks, wears overalls, runs a chain saw, and enters the lofty realms of "geezerdom." he observes, he learns, he grows, he enjoys, and he revives his "natural piety." All of this goes on amid natural beauty that at times seems cloying, almost ridiculous, flabbergasting. He never graduates from being a tourist.Gary Weibye is the author of 'Teetering on the Brink: stories and sketches', published 2003 under ISBN 9781591095842 and ISBN 1591095840.