"Peculiarly Yours" is an adventurous, humorous history, punctuated with the dynamics of family relationships, school experiences, vacations and entry into early adulthood, employment and marriage. Placed in the setting of a small upper Midwestern town, the author's life is touched both by elements of sweeping proportion-the Great Depression and World II-as well as family, faith, and the challenges of childhood and adolescence in a religiously strict home environment.

"Peculiarly Yours" will invite you into some of the innermost rooms of the soul as the author writes of internal conflicts,...