These 35 stories offer a playful telling of my observations and feelings about growing up in and moving on from Plant City, Florida. Subjects like love and rejection, friendships made and lost, and descriptions of the strong-willed women in my life are central to the telling. Hopefully, the reader will enjoy the stories singly or as a whole. Most of the stories have multiple vignettes which are not always consistent with the chronology of the preceding or following story. My viewpoint is often closer to that of an impish scamp than a bookish chronicler.