
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Part memoir, part travelogue, The Enjoy Agenda takes readers from Rick Bailey's one-stoplight town in Michigan farm country to Stratford, England, to the French Concession in Shanghai, the Adriatic coast of Italy, and to a small village in the Republic of San Marino. With his self-deprecating style, Bailey recalls the traumas of picture day in elementary school and lugging a guitar to the Cotswalds and back. He reflects on food safety in China, relives a dental emergency in Venice, and embarks on a quest for il formaggio del perdono (the cheese of forgiveness) in the hills above the Adriatic. Bailey, whose voice is a combination of Dave Barry and Rick Steves with just a soupçon of Montaigne, writes with humor and wit about how these experiences reflect the issues and conflicts of contemporary American life: environmental change, life in digital times, and the vicissitudes of arriving at ripe old age. Throughout The Enjoy Agenda Bailey asks, "Where am I and how did I get here?" a question less about geography than the difficulties and gifts of becoming a husband and ultimately a partner changed and improved by a very smart woman and challenged and delighted by a gradual but seismic culture shift.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1. Inner Music
- 2. Shorty
- 3. Bridge
- 4. Call It a Dance
- 5. Tilt
- 6. Bring Your Horn
- 7. Mindful, Bodyful
- 8. Tied
- 9. The Birds and the Beatles
- 10. Cookies and What?
- 11. GelatiAmo
- 12. Beheading
- 13. Idaho
- 14. Good Bad
- 15. Critters
- 16. iSmell
- 17. Alarm
- 18. Up a Creak
- 19. At Least It’s Not Terrible
- 20. Wreckage
- 21. About Your Stuff
- 22. Try a Little blt
- 23. And Then You Eat It
- 24. Buddy, Can You Spare a Mao?
- 25. The Dope with the Camera
- 26. atm, Wontons, Lizard
- 27. Fang Xin
- 28. The Fifteenth Floor
- 29. Chalant
- 30. Just Call
- 31. Say What?
- 32. Cowboys and Vespers
- 33. Planticide Now
- 34. The Cheese of Forgiveness
- 35. Please, After You
- 36. When Bacco Smiles
- 37. Have I Got a Ragu for You
- 38. Bite Down
- 39. Difficult Worm
- 40. The Enjoy Agenda
- About Rick Bailey