Fr. Michael Collins served as a priest in the diocese of Derry, Northern Ireland, all of his adult life. Through often turbulent and traumatic times, his sense of humor kept him going and his empathy with the plight of the common person shone through. Life, Death, and the Bits in Between is a collection of stories about life as a priest, the situations you find yourself in, and the scrapes you get out of by the skin of your teeth. Everything from overbearing bishops, to the quiet heroes in every parish who make life worthwhile, every story in this book is `true' - and some of them actually happened!