Playing Leapfrog with Porcupines

by Maynard Good Stoddard


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 3/18/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 156
ISBN : 9780759691032
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : E-Book
Page Count : 156
ISBN : 9780759691025

About the Book

Among the chapter headings in this volume, there are a number that may require a complete reading for full understanding.

"Hand-Me-Down Genes," is such a one. "Lock, Stock, Barrel and Bluing" is another. And then there are "Invest Not Thy Whole Wad," "Ants Are No Picnic," "Things That Go Bump In The Daytime."

As for "Take My Husband -- Please," "Gone To Waist," "Tooth Or Consequences," "My Walk With ‘Lady’ Luck," and "House By The Side Of The Road," you can draw your own conclusions.

Better yet, why not check the entire shebang (a well-chosen word) and see if you are right? My guess is you’ll miss at least by the proverbial mile.


About the Author

Released from a wartime job in Indianapolis, I packed my wife, Lois, and our two little kids into a house trailer (now upgraded to a mobile home) and took off for Bradenton, Florida, to launch my writing career.

I would spend many dreary months tied to the dock, however, before shoving off. So dreary, in fact, that the morning we needed a 22-cent quart of milk for breakfast, we could only raise but 18 cents. That afternoon, in the normal mail of rejections, a strange blue envelope stood out like the proverbial sore thumb. The editor of Extension, a Chicago magazine, regaled me with the news that my Do You Mind If I Breathe had their staff literally rolling on the floor. They would be sending me a check for $150.00 . . . and did I have more.

Yes, I had at least a dozen more. And after selling to True and The American Legion, I thought I had it made. I thought wrong.

I would spend another twenty years as Director Of Communications for the Realsilk Hosiery Mills before The Saturday Evening Post asked to reprint one of my free-lance efforts. That beloved magazine has to date printed 154 of my original efforts.

I was recently interviewed by a sophomore high school student who asked what advice I would give to would-be writers. I believe I said it all in only these three words: "Don’t give up."

Therefore, I have given up my daily grind of bikini spotter on Panama City Beach (Florida, of course) for the purpose of selecting another 30 gems from the 158 I have rendered for The Saturday Evening Post. The title: Playing Leapfrog with Porcupines.

If you like what you read, I ask only that you tell your friends, your neighbors, and your relatives – even those you don’t particularly care for. If you don’t agree with my outlook on marital predicaments, I would appreciate it if you kept it to yourself. Perhaps I can repay you sometime. During bikini season, that is.