Tales from the Day: Life Changing Events That Truth Be Told All Happened Under the Heading of oops.

A collection of 19 humorous, moving, and often heart-pounding stories.

Yeah, this is a memoir of sorts, if shark fishing in one’s underwear, roping a bear, getting drunk with your Grandfather, or losing ten grand at the Hollywood Sign is a memoir. The Day Johnny Cash Hit On My Wife is on the roster as well, for the only name drop in all the stories. There’s also a thing about getting shot in Arkansas and a road trip with a monkey. I can’t deny these were life shaping events, but truth be told they all happened under the heading of “oops.”

Wayne McFarland wandered away from a small, mid-western town some years ago.  His experiences there led to a humorous memoir, some say a satirical memoir.  His first book, Tales From the Day, is a young man's memoir in the sense that it consists of humorous short stories from back in the day.  This rollicking tour of the human condition, readers have found, is applicable to living a full life both then and now.  

The episodes in Tales From The Day are humor stories told with candor coupled with a dry wit.  Praise for Tales From The Day, for its material and great writing, is voluminous and multi-generational.

With no planning at all, his history is one of stumbling into one bog after another from the Dakotas to California, from Pamplona to Paris, picking up life changing, funny events along the way.  His main claim to fame is mostly and surprisingly not being dead, plus getting involved with a lot of strange stuff, usually unwillingly or by accident.