Of Course I Wrote a Dan Book

When the Safer at Home orders came down, some people asked me, “Are you going to write another book during all of this free time?” And I was really annoyed, because I didn’t have any more free time! I have a child, and it was spring, and I had to make lunch a lot. But… Read more »

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    He lives at the far edge of town, in a single wide trailer from 1978. He has a “three season porch” which is really a wood stairway that he wrapped plastic insulation around, and called it good. By the front door is a sign that says, “it’s 4:20 somewhere.” (If you try to correct him… Read more »

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  • Cinderella Story

      Two things about Big Z (Age 9): 1. She almost never misses school. 2. She doesn’t like Disney princesses. So, when she missed a few hours of school this morning for a doctor’s appointment, and she got back after only a half day gone, and they said they had cast her as Cinderella in… Read more »

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      I saw this show on the Discovery Channel about how the aliens came and built all of the pyramids on Earth? They had some compelling evidence: Rocks were moved thousands of miles, “before the invention of the wheel.” From an arial view, the pyramids look like a circuit board. (Which pyramids are these, you… Read more »

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    My first impression of Yosha Bourgea was in the fall of 1988, my freshman year of high school. He was shortish and he always wore a giant overcoat and a heavy backpack full of mysterious books. There were rumors about Yosha: that he lived in a refurbished chicken coop, that he had never been to… Read more »

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