Ron is a young radical with a busted suitcase, a probation problem, and a heart full of unfinished business. In Chicago, he has fought cops, sold underground newspapers, fallen in love, lost his collective, and watched his world splinter under the weight of politics, drugs, and desire.Then a Wisconsin farm opens a new door. Out in the country, surrounded by fellow freaks, horses, goats, and hard labor, Ron begins to imagine a different life—one rooted in the land, ...

One boy. One backpack. One shot at freedom.In 1967, fifteen-year-old Ronald Schulz packed HIS bag, left a note on his dresser, and walked away from everything he knew–Family, friends, home, and life as he knew it.Teenage Runaway–a gripping true story of rebellion, survival, and the desperate search for identity during one of America’s most explosive decades. Faced with bullies, broken family dynamics, and a school system that crushes individuality, Schulz c...

The Party at the End of the Rainbow is a creative nonfiction memoir that reads like a novel.Released from jail and the asylum in 1970, Ron turns eighteen and gets his draft card, but can never betray his convictions or cut his hair and join straight society. From Rock Concert to gritty city streets, Ron hits the road and finds wild love and wilder sex, along with betrayal. Ron and his wild, tree hugging band of saboteur friends fight back against the Establishment from the first Ea...

Free Love, Drugs, and RiotsA time in US history. A time of turmoil. And a time of unrest. A five-part memoir as seen through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Ron trying to earn enough money to continue his exploration of the emerging Counterculture, just after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.From the exploration of the underground culture of Chicago to the streets of New York, this recollection of the riots and first inter-racial romance tells of t...

I charged from the woods into the clearing and raced into position on the road between the man and the children. At the same time, my friend bolted out of the woods and got behind the children. The children were stunned at our sudden appearance. They froze in place. What a shame, I thought.It may seem somewhat of a stretch to have nonhuman creatures speaking to and being understood by mankind. Adam nor Eve seemed surprised that the serpent could speak and do so understandably. Past...