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" ... Everyone should have a legacy. Ask yourself today what you'd most want to be remembered for tomorrow if you died tonight. You should have an answer at the ready. Yes, it's true, according to our 43rd President, that 'you never know what your history is going to be like until long after you're gone,' but that shouldn't stop you from considering who you were while you still are.

Welcome to Bush Country, and the landscape of its linquistic legacy .... "

 " ... CAUGHT IN THE SHOWER WITHOUT A PENCIL is B. Elwin Sherman's rapid-fire patchwork of Baby Boomer humor. If you've ever been caught in the shower without a pencil, (and you know what that means) you'll find what you meant to say here --- from the rubble of 9/11's Ground Zero Genesis, to the revelation of a child's grace in The God Cartoon, And Long May It Rain. Ninety-one hilarious ways to relive it all --- and laugh until you dry .... "

Toolkit in Paradise is a collection of the works of B. Elwin Sherman, humorist, satirist and all around American boy. Subtitled "The Self-helpless guide to a decade of American Wit and Wisdom" the collection encompasses some of the best works of the author from 1996 to present day. 

This collection reads like an episode of "Saturday Night Live" or a cherished collection of "National Lampoon," filled with wit and humor that will amuse even the most serious of readers. The author has an anodyne approach to any subject injecting humor and without insult or condescension. It is a coffee table book for the humor starved that will entertain time and time again.

The collection encompasses several formats including:

-Short stories of "Americana" like 30,000 Leaguers under the Sea where baseball enlightens the spirit of a cynical fan and takes him back to the innocents of youth.

 
-Card Tricks, a one act play of seduction and one- liners in a "pick-up" bar.

-Metaphoric Poetry in the The Galloping Ghost of Christmas Past or Driving on the Dotted Line and even includes some three line Haiku.

-A list of actual rock bands that includes: Chicken Charmers and Drunks with Guns or E Coli and Lost Underpants of Doom.

All will amuse and entertain. Guaranteed to have you laughing out loud. Give the gift of laughter to your friends, family and yourself-pick up a copy today. Highly recommended.

Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Reviews.

“ . . . The Miradors is the most persuasive portrait of what we traditionally refer to as ‘madness’ that I’ve ever read — frightening, hilarious and beautifully written, all at once. Mr. Sherman pulls up the curtain on this place we so unreflectively inhabit, and shows us all the dark matter our physics tell us is there, but that we can never see. And, he does so with so much laughter and humaneness that, well … yes, indeed, things look a little different now.

"A strong narrative line, but without the usual point A to point B to point C cause-and-effect progression. The Miradors is more impressionistic, and therefore more in keeping with the real nature of an experience that is, by definition, outside our usual causal progression.“A wonderful prose-poem … a harrowing hell of a good ride . . . ”

~ Richard Adams Carey, Author -- Against the Tide and Raven’s Children

" ... A month before dying of cancer, a young mother hands a letter to her hospice nurse. She asks him to publish its contents after she is gone. With these "Opening Closures," she provides her last written goodbyes to family and friends. Presented by B. Elwin Sherman, here you'll find those testaments fulfilled and made visual by the compelling fractal art of B.Z. Leonard. OPENING CLOSURES is the celebration of a life gone too soon ... "