Michael here. Come with me down memory lane as I challenged a Rocky Mountain survival school in 1966 at age 14. Located ten miles up Crystal Creek—outside Aspen. Welcome to natural selection, the teenage years. “A place where wealthy people bet with the odds that natural selection will occur and nature will take care of their demon seed.” Also: “That which doesn’t accidentally take my child’s life will only make him stronger.”
Read MoreEarly cave drawings show man’s necessity to leave an account of his existence. We are genetically programmed to write. Recording historical events becomes second nature—something in our genetic structure has a necessity to express itself, to leave markers for subsequent generations to follow.
Read MoreA main character in my memoir, The Uris Trinity, Margery Edwards came into my life during the mid-sixties, a Philadelphia transplant who found her way to the slippery slopes of Aspen. A beautiful sculpture handed down by the gods, it didn’t take long before my father’s will to stay with my mother, Betty, became lost in his newfound passion for Margery.
Read MoreHi, Michael Uris here reporting to you from Encino California, on this sunny 118 degree Fahrenheit summer afternoon. This is my older brother Mark and sister Karen. Karen is our family prototype child. Not everything turned out as planned with my older sister, but my parents still a chance to get it right—with my brother Mark Jay.
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