Over his twenty-plus year baseball career, Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. caused a lot of jealousy in the Major Leagues because seemingly everything on the ballfield came easy to him. In the midst of demoralizing batting slumps,... Read More

Every January 1st, people across the world set new goals and plans for themselves—resolutions for the new year. The joke is that we abandon our goals by February and go right back to our regular bad habits. To be realistic, this joke... Read More

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Perfectly Norman Tom Percival Bloomsbury Hardcover $16.99 (32pp) 978-1-68119-785-2 Buy: IndieBound, Amazon When his perfectly normal life takes an unexpectedly extraordinary turn one afternoon, Norman worries that his perfectly normal... Read More

Cooking is a dreaded chore for some, and many others take a nonplussed, let’s just get-’er-done attitude into the kitchen—the shopping, chopping, mixing, and heating are simply the means to a meal. How extraordinary, then, are the... Read More

Strawberry Fields Hilary Plum Fence Books Softcover $15.99 (224pp) 978-1-944380-03-8 Buy: IndieBound, Amazon In Hilary Plum’s Strawberry Fields, myriad memorable protagonists report on tragedies from hotspots around the world with... Read More