Michael Lewis is the famous author of Liar's Poker and Money Ball. A very good writer. In this book Home Game he takes a departure from writing about Wall Street and Money to write up his experiences as a Dad.
Worth a belly full of laughs. Unfortunately, if Moms read this - it will confirm your worst suspicions about Dads.
The first incident is worth repeating. He is in a swimming pool on vacation at a resort. He is in the adults pool and his two young daughters in the kids pool. A boy comes by and tries to bully them. Lewis' younger daughter yells foul obscenities at the boy in a very loud voice and chases him away. The rest of the parents around the pool are simplify horrified at this language. In a flash of inspiration Lewis' realizes no one knows he is their father. So in his words, he 'drops quietly like an alligator below the water' and swims away, but secretly proud that his daughter stood up for herself, but VERY relieved his wife was not around.
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Terrific stuff. Especially your and Lewis’s parenting stories. It’s a realm even more unfamiliar to me than physics. Not sure which I fear most!
And the Krauss book is now in my Amazon cart.
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