Hometown appearance

I spent Saturday in my hometown of Blackstone, MA, speaking about SOMETHING MISSING to audiences in the Blackstone Public Library and then down the road at Renaissance Books in Uxbridge, MA.  There were great turnouts for both events, thanks in part to Stacy Juba, a local author who arranged the appearances, promoted them aggressively, and spoke alongside me.

Oddly enough, the library stands on the former site of my middle school, and before that, my father's high school.  It was quite...