The seventy-year journey of a boy who pretended to be a journalist and grew up to be an actual reporter, editor, and book author is told in fanciful and outrageous daily newspaper "exclusives" in this unconventional memoir.

Life is presented as a series of newspaper stories in this whimsical memoir that lampoons conventional wisdom with parody, pathos, and some surprising gut punches. It's seventy years of daily "exclusives" from a reporter, editor, and book author who grew up fashioning his own newspapers and never stopped--the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam draft lottery, marriage and children, Jack Kevorkian and the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, the climate emergency, love and loss, the circles of life.  

Michael Betzold is a Detroit-based journalist, book author, climate activist, and survivor of the 1960s. He's written on many topics both playful and profound: movies, baseball, Scrabble, Jack Kevorkian's experiments on the dying, the Catholic Church's ongoing sex abuse scandal, and animal agriculture's outsized impact on the climate catastrophe.