Welcome to the blog of Ronald Lee Naas

and his memoir Changing Colors

Ronald Lee Naas

Welcome to the changing of my colors, a two book journey I’ve been working on for the past 12 years. This memoir keeps wanting to rewrite itself.  At age 66, I’m realizing it may take me to 112, and still this story may not be done taking its trip (I mean that in the hippie sense).  So my son Steffen Corby Naas suggested I put my magical mystery tour out there, in the form of a blog.  Am hopeful your comments will guide future revisions.

Being a psychologist by degree and nature, I’m obsessed with explaining why a 45 year old white boy named Ron Naas (rhymes with at a loss) is dancing on the dangerous west side of Chicago, already infatuated with his chocolate queen, who hails by the name of Ms. Mahogany Kashmir Dubonet Moses-his Princess Vicksburg from childhood, he hopes.

So I spent a year or so putting flashbacks first, trying to spell out Ron’s motivation, but that act seemed to lessen this memoir’s intensity.  I kept returning to Mr. Midlife Mess Ron hammering Kashmir’s door, trying every device he could think of, before she…. Click to continue »