Archive for March 2012
Guessing game gone awry
I play a game when standing in line. I listen to the people behind me as they speak and try to envision what they look like based upon their voice. Once I have a clear picture in my head of the person behind me, I turn around and compare my prediction with reality. It’s actually…
Read MoreGratitude journal: The best of friends
As you may know, my next novel, Memoirs of an Imaginary Fiend, has already been released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and even places like Dubai and Singapore. Anywhere that my British publisher, Little Brown UK. might ship books. In the US, however, the book doesn’t publish until August. Unwilling to wait for the…
Read MoreMy first library book: Desperately seeking the title
When I was a child, there were very few books in our home, and almost no children’s books whatsoever, so when I was finally able to ride my bike to the public library and receive my first library card when I was ten, it was an important day for me. I remember that first visit…
Read MoreGone fishin’
Oh sure. To you this looks like a little girl waving a toy broom at the camera. But it’s not. That toy box is actually a boat, one I was required to sit on for quite a while. The broom is a fishing pole. The floor is an ocean, the rug an island, and all…
Read MoreGratitude journal: Clara’s kisses
Tonight I am grateful for the way Clara will grab hold of my the cheeks and pull me in for a kiss. There will come a day when her kisses are decidedly less exuberant and significantly better aimed, and that will be a sad day indeed.
Read MoreAdolescent boys are apparently easily entertained by really stupid (but AWESOME) stuff
I mentioned on Twitter today that my favorite Japanese monster was Gamera, the giant turtle with inexplicable rocket engines for flying. Unable to remember the story of Gamera, I went online to refresh my memory. I wish I hadn’t. I cannot remember reading a more idiotic plotline in all my life. It’s a sad reminder…
Read MoreI finally read Where the Wild Things Are. Sort of.
Having grown up with almost no children’s books in the home, it has been an unexpected joy to read these classics for the first time with my daughter. I would not recommend depriving your child of books, but as a father, it has made for more interesting bedtime reading. One of the books that I…
Read MoreGratitude journal: The almost perfect game
Yesterday I was grateful for poker, which I described as the perfect game. Tonight I am grateful for golf, the almost perfect game. I played today thanks to a spat of unseasonably balmy temperatures, my first time on the links this year. I played well at times, poorly at others and finished with a score…
Read MoreBlurb!
In the wake of Jodi Picoult’s exceptionally generous blurb comes this one from Carol Kranowitz, a teacher, a leader in the autism community and the bestselling author of The Out-of-Sync Child and The Goodenoughs Get in Sync: “Here is a perfectly crafted treasure! While it is shaped around autism, it deals with much more—courage, loss,…
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