moving – Shawn D. Congleton ~ author

Return of the Jedi, Riding Bikes with my Bro & a $100 Reward for YOU! (Lessons Learned from Ch. 4 of NEVER SETTTLED by Shawn D. Congleton)

We Lost Jimmy (1984) was a two story chapter—a story within a story. The main portion of the story was a move we were making from Indiana back out west. As we were loading the car, I noticed my brother and his bike were missing. Then I begin recollecting one of the reasons my bigContinue reading “Return of the Jedi, Riding Bikes with my Bro & a $100 Reward for YOU! (Lessons Learned from Ch. 4 of NEVER SETTTLED by Shawn D. Congleton)”

For years, I had been the youngest in the family before Shelby was born. Terri was in charge and played a maternal role when Mom and Dad were both working. When anything bad happened, Terri and Jimmy received corporal punishment (up to forty spankings with a belt) while I, at worst, received five lighter spankings.Continue reading “An excerpt from Ch. 13, “From Baby to Leader” of NEVER SETTLED: a memoir of a boy on the road to manhood”