LINCOLN- "Running Naked" is an apt title for the recently published memoir of former State Senator Colby Coash, who once ran naked across a theater stage during a performance while he was studying acting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The 246-page "coming of age memoir" also bares all about growing up in Bassett, a small Nebraska ranching town, as well as the pain of divorce and the farm crisis.

The book also deals with the struggle of whether to stay in rural areas or move to bigger cities, which many young people face in Nebraska. According to Coash, he was once caught in that dilemma. Although Coash was expected to operate his long-time family business in Bassett, Coash said he was restless and rebellious, and sought to run from his family.

Coash did just that, choosing to move to Lincoln and later representing south Lincoln in the Nebraska Legislature in 2008 when he was 33. One of Coash's most famous acts as a legislator was his vote to repeal the death penalty in 2015. "I wrote this book so readers could see the impact of family, legacy, and the small towns that shape our journey," said Coash, "I hope readers, especially Nebraskans, will see the hopefulness in their own story by reading mine."

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