In these humorous, self-deprecating, yet deceptively wise stories, the author struts across the stage of an ordinary life filled with trip-ups, slip-ups, and do overs.

"Poignant, funny, and intellectually charged."
- Traci Foust, author of Nowhere Near Normal

"An engaging whirlwind tour through the author's life that leans heavily on clever observations... consistently quirky throughout -- he uses snappy one-liners to punctuate the more serious scenes."
- Kirkus Reviews

"These essays brim with profound insight. They are tales of ordinary life, extraordinarily observed. And they're funny. So funny you hardly know he's making you think 'til you catch yourself doing it."
- Patty Kadel, cartoonist

These travels in the author's three-pound universe (the average weight of a human brain) begin innocently enough, at age three, walking beside his mother and discovering -- he's separate! From there, your guide, now seven, practices the gentle art of Running Away. In the blink of an eye, you're with him, hitchhiking 300 miles to join 600,000 other young people at an outdoor concert. In another blink, he's holding a knife at a man's throat.

Brace yourself -- there's more. You may experience whiplash while riding shotgun as the author floors it through his life journey, from misadventures in Manhattan's poverty-bombed Alphabet City, to doing his blended family's laundry in a suburban basement, to eavesdropping inside a coastal California café on the morning after a man is killed by a great white shark.

Along the way, you'll laugh out loud, or smile out loud, or ask out loud, "WTF?"

Even if your life story hasn't been built on blunders and near misses, this memoir in essays, This Three Pound Universe -- will ring your bell.

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