Joe Sixpack goes home
I’ll be pouring samples and reading from my book(s) Monday night at the Haverford Township Free Library. (Details here.)
This will be a walk down memory lane for me, as the library was where li’l Joe Sixpack got his start (writing, not drinking). I remember spending many afternoons sitting at the library’s wooden tables, studying books and writing reports. I recall one night, probably when I was in 8th grade, hurrying down to the place with a homework assignment on poetry that was due the next day. My topic: Ogden Nash. (”Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”) In about an hour, I had the entire thing written; my teacher gave me an “A” and remarked that it was evident I’d put a lot of work into the project.
Either I had her fooled or I was a pretty decent writer. Either way, I figured, it didn’t matter. That philosophy and something Nash once said:
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
…ultimately led to my career as a newspaper reporter.
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