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Robert L. Metts - Stories for My Friends
Bob Metts was an adventurer and a disability activist who cared deeply about the lives of people with disabilities around the world. Bob worked with governments and non-governmental organizations to design and implement policies and programs that included disabled people in all aspects of life. Bob earned a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley and was a Professor of Economics for 27 years at the University of Nevada, Reno. He was married for 36 years to Nan sea. He loved a good party and was renowned for hosting days-long gatherings where musicians jammed for hours, old and new friends cooked and ate astonishingly delicious food, and champagne corks flew.
A few years back, I decided to write a memoir in the form of a collection of interesting stories from my life. Over time, the collection has grown, but I have never thought it to be comprehensive enough to warrant publication. Then, May 3, 2019, I was diagnosed with colon cancer, which evolved into untreatable Stage IV colon cancer by that November. Faced with such a genuine deadline, I knew it was impossible for me to write all the stories I had planned. I believe that the stories I have written so far have value in themselves, and, since hearing my death sentence, I have written a few more. Altogether I believe they provide a good account of my childhood and early college years.
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A few years back, I decided to write a memoir in the form of a collection of interesting stories from my life. Over time, the collection has grown, but I have never thought it to be comprehensive enough to warrant publication. Then, May 3, 2019, I was diagnosed with colon cancer, which evolved into untreatable Stage IV colon cancer by that November. Faced with such a genuine deadline, I knew it was impossible for me to write all the stories I had planned. I believe that the stories I have written so far have value in themselves, and, since hearing my death sentence, I have written a few more. Altogether I believe they provide a good account of my childhood and early college years.
“Okay. I’m from Louisiana, home to some of the best storytellers on the planet. I grew up believing nobody outside my mother country of crawfish, gumbo, and jazz funerals could hold a candle to our homespun storytellers. That was before I heard Bob Metts spin a tale.

Now, Bob has given us a huge farewell gift of his written stories. You’ll hear his voice, pitch-perfect, throughout this memoir. The voice is pure and strong and unmistakably his, and his alone.”

- Excerpt from the Introduction by Rebecca Wells, actress, playwright, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood series
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“Okay. I’m from Louisiana, home to some of the best storytellers on the planet. I grew up believing nobody outside my mother country of crawfish, gumbo, and jazz funerals could hold a candle to our homespun storytellers. That was before I heard Bob Metts spin a tale.

Now, Bob has given us a huge farewell gift of his written stories. You’ll hear his voice, pitch-perfect, throughout this memoir. The voice is pure and strong and unmistakably his, and his alone.”

- Excerpt from the Introduction by Rebecca Wells, actress, playwright, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood series