Summer Reading

“The thing that will give you your body and nervous system back is physical exercise. I can’t stress it enough. That’s how I got my body and nervous system back. You have to go to boot camp. It makes you feel better. It’s the only thing that does. Eventually, it scours the devil out of you.“
James Taylor on his addiction to heroin and alcohol



Old photos of my daughter with someone else’s puppy.

“Carlos and Minji accepted his apology and they all were friends once again.” p. 36 of Kevin the Complainer


I considered using the one below, but it doesn’t fit the character properly.

Publishing date (Target): June 7th, 2019.

In the silence that followed, Kevin felt calmer. Lily’s reaction (or, rather, lack of reaction) to his complaints gave him space to think.
She left a lot of space.
And he realized that he just might be wrong.

Kevin muttered, “I knew this was going to be a bad day.”

“Kevin felt something in his chameleon gut. It felt all wrong.”