The Memoir

🦍 Barefoot and Bulletproof: The Dirty Little Glover Boys

A memoir of mischief, memory, and a town that vanished beneath its own dust.

Grit your teeth. Grip your heart. And hang on tight.

This is the book I’ve been writing:

Barefoot and Bulletproof: The Dirty Little Glover Boys —

a laugh-out-loud, lump-in-your-throat memoir about growing up barefoot, wild, and determined not to forget.

Set in Picher, Oklahoma — a town poisoned by prosperity and erased by time — this story follows two scrappy brothers, barefoot and bulletproof, as they stage BB gun wars, jump from rooftops, chase pigs, cheat death, and learn how to outrun both forgetting and fear.

It’s full of:

  • 🚲 Barefoot bike rides down chat piles with no brakes and even less common sense

  • 👬 Brotherly chaos, porch storytellers, and a goose with a grudge

  • 🧠 Generational memory, dementia’s long shadow, and one dad who never stopped building

  • 🦍 A Gorilla that still roars from a town that no longer exists

But beneath the stunts and scars lies the real story:

A love letter to memory itself.

Because if we don’t write it down, we risk losing more than our past — we lose who we are.

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💡 What Readers Have Said:

“I absolutely loved this story. Loved it. It made me cry.” — Mary Anne D.

“You’ve turned your family’s tragic pattern into fuel for creative expression and cognitive protection.” — Wes P.

“What a great tribute to your dad. I also have a dad who was a quiet Gorilla.” — Melissa McB.

🦍 If you’ve ever tried to outrun forgetting — this book is for you.

And if you want to help bring it to life, you already have.

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