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|  | | I Think I'm Having One Of Those Decades
More short humor essays from the award-winning Canadian humorist Gordon Kirkland
Gordon Kirkland is recognized as one of North America's premier humor writers, having won Canada's Stephen Leacock Award of Merit For Humour for each of his three previous books Justice Is Blind - And Her Dog Just Peed In My Cornflakes, Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse and When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs .
I Think I'm Having One Of Those Decades is another romp through the humor Kirkland finds in daily life. As he says, his writing makes wives feel better about their husbands because they aren't like him, and husbands feel better about themselves because they are pretty | |  | | Justice Is Blind - And Her Dog Just Peed In MY Cornflakes
A collection of short humor about trying to survive life as a husband father and dog owner.
Winner of the 2000 Stephen Leacock award of Merit For Humour
Nothing is sacred in the hands of humorist Gordon Kirkland. From video arcades to vasectomies, wheel chairs to weight control and mega-stores to marriage, Kirkland exposes the foibles of daily living with hilarity and honesty.
In 1990, Kirkland sustained a severe spinal injury in a golfing accident--his car was rear-ended while he was on his way to a golf course ("It really screwed up my handicap"). In the years following his accident, laughter helped him cope with the stress and pain of his slow and difficult recovery, and the knowledge that he would not be able to walk again without | |  | | Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse
More stories from Syndicated columnist and award-winning author Gordon Kirkland.
WInner of the 2005 Stephen Leacock Award of Merit For Humour.
“Spoof is stronger than fiction” says For Better of For Worse humorist Lynn Johnston, and in Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse, Leacock merit medallist Gordon Kirkland drives the point home with funny-bone accuracy.
Kirkland’s syndicated newspaper column is no stranger to Canadian and US audiences, and in this premium collection, Kirkland fans will find it all.
Drawing humour out of everyday situations such as trying to stay awake while on an all-night drive through the mountains, or the skewed memory of a long-lost office affair, Kirkland keeps the lines rolling and the laug | |  | | When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs
More stories from Syndicated columnist and award-winning author Gordon Kirkland.
WInner of the 2006 Stephen Leacock Award of Merit For Humour.
Gordon Kirkland has been called one of Canada's premier humorists. His weekly syndicated humor column, Gordon Kirkland At Large, has been entertaining newspaper readers for over ten years. His first book, Justice Is Blind - And Her Dog Just Peed In My Cornflakes, won Canada's Stephen Leacock Award of Merit for Humour in 2000. He is also the author of 2004's Never Stand Behind A Loaded Horse. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs in Canada and the United States.
He was the first Canadian writer chosen to be on the faculty of the prestigious Erma Bombeck Writer's Works |
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