McFarland, Ron

   Ron McFarland is a faculty member at the University of Idaho in Moscow.  He is an established poet, author and general raconteur.  He is the Director of the Creative Writing Program at U of I.  He can be reached for comments and appearances at ronmcf@uidaho.edu.

    Confessions of a Night Librarian and Other Embarrassments is his "coming of age memoir" about growing up in Cocoa, Florida, a small town trapped between the mores of the early 20th Century and the exploding demands of the 21st Century, fueled by rapid growth and the overwhelming demands for modernization brought on by the nearby space center and NASA.  Confessions is filled with all the emotional turmoil and angst that a young man, on the cusp of adulthood, encounters as he tries to pass through each today while dealing with raging hormones, an overactive imagination and a somewhat more sophisticated brother.  Confessions produces hundreds of small chuckles and more than a few great guffaws.