FOR AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY: rick@helpmelift.net . . . Raw Real Righteous Radioactive - and so readable A semi-autobiography. . . poignant and humorous family anecdotes revealing their struggles and emotions. Told from the point of view of the family's eldest sibling, a random 76 years of memoirs start a young child through a boyhood that is often tumultuous, sometimes tragic or near-tragic, and occasionally hilarious. The lad and his family are well drawn through today, revealing many qualities and shortcomings. This book, takes us on adventures and misadventures typical of any boy's formative years, yet is unique for its blend of the assumable and the impossible, the timid and the daring, the quotidian and the outrageous, along with the yearning and the loving that signal real growth as the boy becomes the man he is today.