Slices of a Life

About the Book

Slices of a Life consists of memoirs and meditations---odd, strange, amusing, touching, or otherwise of interest---that readers from all walks and stages of life can enjoy. Although being, to a large extent, a farrago of the author's failings, follies, frailties, foibles, and other folderol and foofaraw, the book nevertheless seeks to demonstrate that this former Midwestern attorney---with a knack for waxing poetic, philosophizing, or poking fun at himself, sometimes in a single breath---is a worthy and meritorious person. Capturing the essence of life---the highs and the lows, the ups and the downs, triumph and defeat, the good, the bad, and the ugly, etc.---in the Midwest (specifically Chicago and its suburbs) over a long period of time, the book expounds on such universal topics as family, youth, friendship, fatherhood, pets, sports, travel, and more.

About the Author

About the Author Paul Gabler is a retired attorney who lives in Chesterton, Indiana, after spending most of his life in Chicago and its suburbs. He was born and raised in Elgin, Illinois, but it happened that the night he turned 17 years old was spent sleeping in an abandoned truck in a junkyard some 500 miles away from home. The author later attended college in New England and law school at Michigan and thereafter practiced law in Chicago for many years. A voracious reader, a walking and napping enthusiast, and an avid game player and puzzle solver, Gabler is the ancestor of five children and various other descendants, and has been the husband of two wives, one at a time. Also, he is currently the “daddy” of five cats.