title: The Book of Patches
author:  Rod Riley 
description: <span>While returning from a fly fishing trip in 2007, I outlined <i>The Book of Patches</i> on a flight from Denver to Birmingham. The stories I decided to include are all true and carefully selected to illustrate a lesson included at the end of each tale. While each lesson points out some aspect of the Boy Scouting program, I hope there is value for all readers regardless of age, or gender, or even if the reader was never associated in any way with Boy Scouts. </span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Once I began to expand the outline into a complete tale, I had a couple of false starts about how to tie the true stories together. Eventually, I decided on a fictitious friendship between a retired Scoutmaster named Mr. Carlton and a boy named Daniel, a neighborhood kid who has recently become a Tenderfoot Scout. It turns out Mr. Carlton has a book of specially selected patches he uses as icons to remind him of stories about two Scouts named Dow and Roger who grew to manhood under his tutelage. The stories represented by the patches include adventures even after the two Scouts are grown men, illustrating how lessons learned can follow us for a lifetime. In the story, Daniel becomes enthralled with the escapades of Dow and Roger, the patches used as icons about their adventures, and the lessons of Scouting that continue to influence Dow and Roger into adulthood.</span><br /><br /><span>I am sometimes asked if there really is a "Book of Patches." The answer is yes.  There is just one in the world, and I show it when asked to present to audiences who want to hear about the book. I hope to show it to you someday as well.</span>
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  His Other Half
  
  
  Patches: Tarkio MC, book 3
  
  
  By
  
  
  Debra Kayn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
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  His Other Half
  
  
  Patches: Tarkio MC, Book 3
  
  
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