Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #19: When Life Asks Questions, Change the Subject

Like, by buying a one-way ticket to Paris.

THE SUMMER AFTER MY GRADUATION FROM COLLEGE, my father addressed my future. He had fully bought into my dream of becoming a writer, and typically for him, he had given it more thought than I had.

I took notes in my journal. 

2 or 3 or 4 August 1978

A talk with dad spurs an investigation into the psyche of Peter S. Moore. He spoke again of “the discipline o…