“Stephen Smith is a highly engaging, sympathetic and humorous everyman, addressing adventures and situations most folks have had, such as being an All American college-boy-or-girl-home-on-break worker in retail over the Christmas holidays. His experiences as a Drug Fair Veg-o-matic salesman come to us with hilarious dry-wit and droll delivery. So memorable -- and heartwarming to the maximum!"  — Bland Simpson, author of North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky

 “Stephen Smith’s new memoir is loaded with whip-smart humor, keen insights into a college kid trying to figure things out, and reminiscences of a time and place that leave you smiling and musing, “Yes, that’s the way it was.” This book is a great read. Jaunty, delightful, wonderfully absorbing, impossible to resist. The writing simply shines.” — Judy Goldman, author of Child: A Memoir

“One of the enduring pleasures of my life is that I get to read Stephen E. Smith on a regular basis. We should all be so lucky. His poetry is sublime and his prose is witty, charming, poignant and crafted with the consummate skill of a P.G. Wodehouse, one of the writers he cherished as a young man. The Year We Danced: A Memoir is sweet and funny and profoundly us. If you love a tale, or tales, well told, this is the book for you.” — Jim Moriarty, Editor PineStraw magazine

 “Would you buy a Vega-O-Magic from this man? If ‘this man’ is Stephen Smith, the answer is emphatically YES! Smith’s humorous tone and talent for the absurd make him and this book companionable and delightful. Smith is a reliably hilarious storyteller.” — Paul Jones, author of Something Wonderful