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July 2010

July 09, 2010

Cat Writes Our Lives

By way of some work I'm doing on All In ... Almost (or, "Wow, Obnoxious...

July 08, 2010

Writing Jobs I’ve Had (And What They Paid)

In the comment thread of yesterday's What Book Publishers Want Most, But Can’t Have, a reader...

July 07, 2010

What Book Publishers Want Most, But Can’t Have

A continuation of the conversation I started with yesterday's My New Book Has Taken Over...

July 04, 2010

Ah, Freedom

Ah, the Fourth of July. It means apple pie, fireworks, and a surging sense of...

June 2010

June 19, 2010

Happy Father’s Day! (Or Not!)

I'm not anti-Father's Day, or anything like that. And (what with having been born of...

June 13, 2010

The Bird and the Glass

Young Benny Horton sat in the cavernous living room of a luxurious high-rise apartment...

June 12, 2010

Sad to Say, I Won’t Miss My Father

Hey, guys. Hey, I very much want to thank those of you who sent me...

June 11, 2010

Oscy Gets a Life

In response to yesterday's Father's Day is Coming; My Father's Night is Here, I've been...

June 10, 2010

Father’s Day is Coming; My Father’s Night is Here

My father takes some thirty different medications, relating mainly to his bad heart. Both his...

June 09, 2010

The Moment I Met My Wife

When I saw my wife for the first time, I leaned against a wall for...

May 2010

May 31, 2010

We Fight

Like (I presume) every American, I today feel the weight, glory, and sheer spiritual magnitude...

May 30, 2010

Know

It's four a.m., and I just awoke from a dream that ended with me in...

May 27, 2010

The One Thing I Dreaded Most About Becoming a Christian

When I very suddenly became a Christian, I was in a supply closet at my...

May 21, 2010

The publishing saga of my book “I’m OK- You’re Not”

Here is the very quick version of the publishing saga of my book, I'm OK-You're...

May 14, 2010

Why Did God Choose Me (Instead of You)?

I recently received an email from one F. Stuart "Skip" Leeds, a physician and faculty...

May 13, 2010

How My Wife Took the News of My Sudden Conversion

How did my wife of sixteen years respond to discovering she was married to a...

May 11, 2010

21 Things About Bob Marley

The Bob Marley post you're looking for is here. Sorry about the inconvenience!

April 2010

April 26, 2010

I, a Rabid Anti-Christian, Very Suddenly Convert

The split-second before I very suddenly became a Christian I couldn’t have been less of...

April 23, 2010

Nice to Meet You

The post you are looking for is included in HA!, a full-sized collection of five...

April 21, 2010

Still Light Outside

The post you are looking for is included in HA!, a full-sized collection of five...

April 17, 2010

Rock-Munching Gull + Rocky the Plummeting Squirrel = ?

I’m sitting on the beach right now on my little fold-out, nylon-strapped chair, writing on...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

The Weirdest Thing About This Thing With My Mom

Hey, I forgot to tell you guys. (And I'm sure by now you're getting a...

March 31, 2010

From My Mom’s Husband: “May This Event Serve as a Healing in Your Life.”

Last night I got a short email from the psychologist I just learned was married...

March 30, 2010

I Just Found Out My Mother Died — Five Years Ago

I've seen my sister maybe twice in the last thirty years. She has four grown...

March 20, 2010

In The Final Moments of My 51st Year

As I write this, I will be fifty-two years old in exactly one half-hour. That...

February 2010

February 20, 2010

My Interview with Writer’s Digest

About three months after my book Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang, came out, Writer's...

January 2010

January 25, 2010

Star-Crossed

Lately some have complained that I (via posts like this,this, and this) have been entirely too...

January 23, 2010

Spaghetti Sauce; Disgusting Jokes; Love

As I write this, my wife Cat is in the kitchen making spaghetti sauce. I...

January 11, 2010

Top 10 Things I Learned In My CA Traffic Class

As I wrote about here, this weekend I had to take an 8-hour traffic class....

January 07, 2010

How I stopped overeating with one thought

I got fat. When, about six months ago, my wife Cat became too ill to...