Stories of the generation that changed everything — one street, one season, one decade at a time.
Who We Are — “It’s about Time” · Book One of the ‘Threads of Time’ Trilogy. Memoirs about the Baby Boom generation, a championship that nobody saw coming, and the decades that made us who we are. Written from a farmhouse in Brookfield, Vermont.
My first book, No Offense, No Defense, No Hope! tells the true story of the 1970 Wake Forest football team — perennial underdogs coming off ten straight losing years — who started the season 0–3 and were dismissed as “the best no-win team in the country,” then went on to claim Wake Forest’s first-ever ACC championship. Written by a tight end who lived it, it’s as much about grit, loss, and a turbulent America as it is about football.
The Green Flash, captured by David in Vermont — February 17, 2025, 7:20 AMPhotograph by David D. Doda
From a championship locker room in 1970 to a New England kitchen fifty-six years later — the same hands writing both.
It’s about Time
Threads of Time Trilogy | Book One
A memoir for the Baby Boom generation. Two parallel lives — his and hers — traced through every decade from the Forties through today. From Kennedy’s inauguration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, from the birth control pill to the glass ceiling: the story of how we became who we are.
The underdog football memoir that shocked college sports
In 1970, while Kent State burned and the draft lottery determined who would go to Vietnam, seventy-three young men on a small Southern campus discovered what they were made of — and brought home the school’s first ACC Championship.
Who We Are is the first book in David Doda’s planned Threads of Time trilogy, a three-book arc moving from memory, to story, to the future.
He wrote the “Who Am I” poem at the heart of his second book in 2001. It sat in a drawer for twenty-three years. The books are his answer to that whisper.
Born in New Haven, Connecticut on a June afternoon in 1949, David Doda grew up in the postwar suburbs of Derby, surfed Manasquan at thirteen, and captained his high school football team. He played tight end at Wake Forest on the 1970 ACC championship squad — a team picked dead last in the conference that finished first. After earning a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Florida, he spent fifteen years in the defense industry before founding Earthcare Technologies. He writes from a farmhouse in Brookfield, Vermont, where he lives with his wife Nancy of fifty-five years.