Bagels to Biscuits: A Memoir

WE WERE THE PERFECT MATCH; THE ROCKS IN MY HEAD FIT THE HOLES IN HERS. Athens, Georgia. 1966. Three years before Woodstock. There I was, a naïve Jewish kid from Miami Beach plunked down as a freshman at the University of Georgia—where at 19, I fell in love with and married a slightly unbalanced gentile girl whom I met at the hippie table in Creswell Cafeteria. We were the perfect match; the rocks in my head fit the holes in hers. Eschewing any sort of life plan, we spent the next 50 years dealing with whatever the universe sent our way. Our destiny became a moving target. This memoir looks back at it all—the successes and failures, the craziness and fun, the trouble and woe. We thought we’d live forever, and for a while, we did.

A copywriter for more than 30 years, Robert Roth has written advertising and annual reports for some of the world's top corporations-including Polo Ralph Lauren, The Coca-Cola Company, and Emirates Airline. He is also the author of The Writer's Guide to Annual Reports. His memoir stories have appeared in The Manila Envelope and Mary: A Journal of New Writing. This is his first full-length memoir. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and their two dogs, Butter and Tuna.