I recently read Sooley by John Grisham. It was not a typical Grisham book. Instead of a legal thriller, it was sports fiction about a basketball player from South Sudan who comes to the states to play college basketball. The book starts out strong. Sooley tries out for a team from Sudan that will tour … More Do Your Research
Facebook has reminded me that today is a day where I met famous in the past 10 years ago I took my son to his first concert. This was back when he wasn’t too cool to like the bands I like. We saw Bowling For Soup. The venue they were supposed to play closed so … More The One Where Tater Meets Famous People
My daughter recently made a meme as part of an assignment. She used the website I used when I was creating memes for social media at my old job. I had fun creating memes and using GIFS to promote programs and to drive interaction. Then I was told I was no longer allowed to use … More Author Cafeteria Table Meme
I recently tried the “ask me anything” thing again here and once again got only one question. It was about my favorite authors. So, here is a small list of some of my favorite authors. And yes, I realize they are mostly white men. I have diversified my reading, but the ones below remain my … More Some of My Favorite Authors
I recently wrote about how I first made contact with Christopher Moore and how that led to me making online friends and having lunch with the author guy the last time he was in town for a signing. He is not the only author I randomly contacted via email. Here is another story. After Chris … More Another Author Story
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