Growing Up In the OP

Growing Up in the OP. Author Richard Paradise will discuss his latest book, Growing Up in the OP, which is an homage to midwestern Baby Boomers in general, and Kansas City-area Baby Boomers in particular. He will have autographed copies of both of his books for sale after the presentation. 

Richard Paradiise was born iin St. Louis, MO, and raised in Johnson County, KS.  He is the author of Growing Up in the OP:  Tales of a Midwestern Baby Boomer and Living Life Riverside:  Our Nightmarish Pursuit of the American Dream.  Educated by nuns, Jesuits and Jayhawks, he has spent the majority of his career writing about cements and adhesives for the commercial roofing industry.  Not until his Colorado midlife crisis, the details of which are relaying in Living Life Riverside, did he begin writing for the sake of posterity and as means of maintaining his sanity in an insane situation.  Richard lives in Overland Park, KS< with his wife, Julie, and his beloved dog, Lucy.