Book One
The Book of Ron
48 stories, written for his granddaughters. Every finished one is free, start to finish — the story, what it taught him, and the proverbs it stands on.
- 1The Red-Eyed Martian2 min
- 2Aunt Gladys2 min
- 3You Have to Hate It When You Run Out of Chain3 min
- 4Early Lessons on the Job Site2 min
- 5Crackpot3 min
- 6Tenaciousness2 min
- 7The Truck Won't Run2 min
- 8The Tape Measure2 min
- 9Homework3 min
- 10The Long Summer2 min
- 11The Long Haul2 min
- 12The Lion's Den3 min
- 13The Balance of Right and Wrong2 min
- 14The Flashlight3 min
- 15The Loan3 min
- 16The Tractor2 min
- 17Wayland3 min
- 18You Never Know Who's Watching2 min
- 19Graduation3 min
- 20Granddaughter's GraduationBeing finished
- 21The Greatest Grace5 min
- 22The Unit Is More Important3 min
- 23The Marine Corps Rifle Creed3 min
- 24Memorial Day3 min
- 25The Story I Did Not Know3 min
- 26Thomas3 min
- 27A Place You Won't Be Hurt3 min
- 28The Fallen Tree2 min
- 29The Bulldozer2 min
- 30The Fire4 min
- 31Anything Without a Lesson3 min
- 32Rhett4 min
- 33Who Is the Angel?4 min
- 34Precious Moments4 min
- 35The Grade4 min
- 36Do It Anyway2 min
- 37The Refrigerator and the Stairs2 min
- 38Which Engine Do You Have?3 min
- 39Different Dogs3 min
- 40Check in the Bank2 min
- 41Helpmate or Counterweight3 min
- 42The 80/20 Rule3 min
- 43Marriage Is a Battlefield1 min
- 44Amputee3 min
- 45Earn This4 min
- 46The Operator's Manual7 min
- 47Ronald Reagan and the Marine Corps3 min
- 48The Third StallThe closing story
- –Epilogue — The MirrorAfterword
- –Final EpilogueAfterword
- –Before We Reach the ScalesThe final lesson
Every story with a workbook links to it, and the workbooks are
also gathered in a section of their own:
The Book of Ron Workbook.
The Third Stall now closes the book. It used to sit at number
forty-one, which put both epilogues before the story they are about. It is the
last one now, where Ron wanted it, and the two epilogues follow it.
One of the 48 is still being finished —
Granddaughter's Graduation. It is listed above so the book
reads in the right order, but it has no page yet. What exists on
file is not Ron’s finished writing, so nothing goes out under his name
until he sends the real thing.