40 Before 40

Table of Contents

Hello! I’m Walther; this is Peregrino, and between April and December 2023, I’ll be serializing “40 Before 40,” a memoir I intend to finish before I enter midlife. This page will serve as the Table of Contents for the 40 essays that comprise the memoir.

0. Introduction

1. Mixtape

2. English as a Second Language

3. Sol, arena y mar

4. Blackout

5. 15 Minutes of Fame

6. Just Obese

7. On Death and Loss

8. On Repetition

9. Men and Their Barber

10. On Fatherhood

11. Tampere to Barcelona

12. Eurotrip

13. American Dream

14. Coming Home: Part I

15. Coming Home: Part II

16. Lucia

17. Anger Management

18. Happy Hour

19. The Accident

20. Like Home Movies but in Text Form

21. Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

22. Quintessential Quesadillas

23. Between Two Cultures

24. Caffiend

25. Nine Lessons

26. Cigarettes, Cigars, and Pipes

27. In Status Viae

28. Rites of Passage and Father Figures

29. Hopeless Romantic

30. “Are you the one proposing?”

31. Thespian

32. Born on Christmas Day

33. Hide and Seek

34. On Silence