Chronicles are a window through which we can look into the past, understand how the post-war generation of “boomers”, who grew up before the computer revolution and gadgets, lived. How we grew up, what we loved, what we laughed and cried about. The author devoted about forty years to journalism. Life gave him hundreds of meetings with famous and simply interesting people. More than once I was faced with a choice during fateful changes in the country. Outlining the chronicles of the events of his life, the people among whom he lived, the author writes only about what he knows well, trying to be extremely frank. In his stories, he does not avoid little things, not quite the “correct” choice of events, or the manifestation of characters. Many stories are dedicated to nature and fishing. Emotionally rich stories are like pieces of a puzzle from which the life of one of the representatives of the outgoing generation was formed.