TOO FUNNY! LIFE IMITATES ART!

For years I have been writing about "misfits" and "weirdos" and have unintentionally become my own neighborhood's, just that.

Grizelda is a weird neighbor who the kids discover to be loveable as well. Drinking Fountain Joe (my newly christened H1N1 book because of the germs) is a funny little misfit who is paranoid about germs in his school and becomes a hero. Gabriel Peters, the hero in my Go Ask Mom series is a funny misfit kid, SO, wouldn't it stand to reason that the author is a bit of ea...