Eating Jell-O With Chopsticks

by Maynard Good Stoddard


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 1/28/2003

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 312
ISBN : 9781403341754

About the Book

Among the stories from the Saturday Evening Post you may have missed that you will find here:

"Going South s for the Birds"

"Hair Today--Gone Tomorrow"

"There’s No Time Like Snow Time"

"My Duels with Tools"

"Me and Other Dumb Animals"

"Anyone for Peanut Soup?"

"And, of Course"

"Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks"

Among the stories that have yet to appear in the Post, for whatever reason (too classical, comes to mind):

"Munch Ado"

"Cashing in on Wall Street"

"What Price Sunshine"

"Blue Genes"

"Glue and I"

"The Marriage-Go-Round"

"The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth?"

"--.Don’t Make Me Laugh"

In truth, of course, I hope they do make you laugh. Perhaps, out loud at times. But at least snickering all the way.


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 twenty-two-cent quart of milk for breakfast, we could only raise but eighteen 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.

This book covers twenty-four of them.

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."