Tag: young adult
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Theo and Sprout Excerpt for Kentucky Derby Day
I STEPPED through the looking glass when I mowed the lawn. I used to like mowing the grass. I know, an odd concept for a teenager. I liked to mow the lawn because I entered a separate world, alone. Alone literally or alone in the loud roar the mower created, a zone of aloneness around…
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This is Garbage
That was the entirety of a review of “Theo and Sprout” on GoodReads. “This is garbage.” The good news is that someone I have never heard of read enough of my book to call it garbage. That’s a small exposure victory. Any publicity is good publicity. To be fair, I have read books that I…
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Back to School Ode
I dreaded going back to school when I was in high school. I dreaded it because I was pushed off the shore in my little boat into the sea of life all alone, without a map, without oars, without a life jacket, without anything really. I won’t claim I had the worst high school experience…
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Sprout: Spirit Guide for Today’s World
Look. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman. I feel that way sometimes when trying to explain “Theo and Sprout” to people. It’s a young adult book. It’s coming of age book. It’s a Jungian metaphor. It’s a coming of self book. And it is all of these things, which could either speak to…
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