A fat boy with the blues. A skinny girl who runs marathons. And a con man on the lam. If you liked Clear Heart, or if you liked Boone Barnaby, you’ll like this one, too. The themes are a bit more grown up than Boone Barnaby, but it’s still family-friendly for reading. For any age it’s my brand of wr…

To sing falsetto. To dress with Charm. To give flowers to every angry woman in the world.

"I'm a pretty flower waiting to be cut, so sniff my armpits and kiss my butt."

A baseball game, a bunt sign. And the best work a man can do.

Uncle Earl is slightly "intoxiculated," and Babcock learns the meaning of "Dida dada doody wada."

Babcock's band plays their first gig - an "explosive" performance.

Babcock meets a new kind of dragonfly - a female kind. A kind that talks back.