The title STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS is a facetious warning to the family and friends who've heard this collection of short tales over the years. Newcomers will read an adoption story that begins with growing up in a small southern mill town. Next they will read about going to college and spending a junior year in France while also touring Europe. Then comes the beginning of a teaching career by integrating an all-black school and the account of courtship and marriage while teaching in the "North." Finally, there are tales about beginning a family, and ultimately moving back to my home state to be near aging parents. These "baby boomer" memories took place from the 1940's to the present and are related with self-mocking humor.

Mike Frye grew up in the textile mill town of Concord, NC. and attended Davidson College. He taught junior and high school English in Maryland and NC before working at the NC Education Department as a consultant who conducted teacher training workshops across the state. He and his wife Sue Ellen have two children and four grandchildren and now live in retirement in Hickory, NC.