As you may have guessed, today is a pretty special day for me around here, as this is the day when my very first book, The First Seven Years Are Always the Hardest…, is officially available for purchase.
I’ll give that just a moment to really sink in…
You see, this is something that I’ve been working on for a long time. Believe it or not, I was actually first talking about putting a book of my columns together way back in 2003, but then I did this crazy, little thing called moving to Florida and among everything else in my life that got consequentially thrown into a whirlwind, the book idea found itself taking one backseat after another as my other priorities in life prevailed.
Nonetheless, here we are today, almost seven years past that date and really just about ten years since I first started writing these little humorous diatribes in general, and as odd as it seems, I think now is the better time for this historic event anyways. I’ve written a lot more columns between now and then (250, to be exact!), and for some reason the summer of 2010 just feels like a good time to introduce some of my older columns back out into the world. Despite everything being online, I think this collection is going to give people an opportunity to see just how much my writing has evolved over the years – the earliest humor columns in this book actually date all the way back to 2001 – and I’ll definitely be the first to admit that my style has challenged quite a bit since then! It’s still interesting, though, to go back and revisit the early classics every now and then – to a time when I still lived up in Michigan, I found myself ranting more about mosquitoes than alligators, and the crazy concept of shoveling snow was still an all too real part of my daily routine!
Reflection is definitely fun, and even though frighteningly enough the gears in my head have already started turning with regards to the infamous book two, I hope that everyone who orders a copy enjoys this little trip down memory lane showcasing the first seven years of my life as a humor columnist. So far it’s been a fun ride, and with any luck this will be only the beginning!
- Scott
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