The author of these short stories was born in St Louis, however his mother and father were of Kansas homesteading stock and they summered every year on the old family farm on the Kansas plains. The author’s stories take the reader from the placid life on the farm to the fast pace of the city—some stories true, some embellished, and some pure fiction. After a career in the insurance business in Ohio Anderson retired, with his wife Lee, to the mountains of Western North Carolina.