Review of my first book: “What a fantastically funny piece of writing, I absolutely loved it. . . .  All I can say is brilliant . . . highly recommended.” —Julie Elizabeth Powell, author of “Julie’s Quick Picks,” The LL Book Review 

Lyle is a fictional correspondence-course editor who writes letters to a friend from a small university in the Midwest. Sounds ordinary? Just ask the Human Sexuality Professor, Ivanta Mora Menn, when Lyle is clueless to her advances. Ask the formidable cafeteria lady, Samella. Ask the Wellness Center SWAT team. Or ask his traumatized coworkers after Lyle invents new games for the office picnic. Ask the same coworkers when they have to come up with something nice to say at the funeral of their colleague, Retchet Grimsnarl. Ask the beleaguered mailroom clerk, Sortgood Shipman. Finally, ask the various E-squads and emergency-room workers who, because of Lyle, have anything but a boring shift.

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Although “A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words,” here, mine only want me to write one page. I look at one of my photos, and something clicks that launches an essay.

This is a collection of over 50 one-page essays, each based on one of my photographs. Did the photo suggest a story that made me laugh? I might write a funny essay such as “Mallards Visiting,” where my photo of two mallards standing outside a patio door inspired a story about the male mallard giving the female “ground rules” before they entered a party. Did another photo strike me as exceptionally beautiful? I might write an essay such as “A Rose,” in which I tried to capture the rapture a rose might give the viewer. Did the photo suggest something profound or sublime? I might craft a transcendent essay such as “Come to the Light,” in which a bright window at the end of a long cathedral corridor inspired an essay about the transition between this world and the next.

Over 50 photos. Over 50 essays. Over 50 of my reactions, depending on how each image struck me. A unique juxtaposition of image, impact, and the written word.

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These “Graffics” first appeared as daily posts in a photoblog that ran from November 2010 to July 2016. During those 6 years, every weekday I posted one of my photos with a funny title and caption. At the time I ended the blog, it had over 1,000 followers.

When the blog was active, I added the 4 most-liked posts each month to a clickable gallery, and, at the end of the site’s 6-year run, the gallery contained over 270 such favorites. Most of the 100 Graffics in this book come from that gallery.

After I created the name for the blog, I had to pay an annual fee to maintain control of the name: TheDailyGraff.com.* As soon as I stopped paying, someone else bought the rights to use that web address. When I checked the address this week, I got the message: “Page can’t be found,” meaning that no one is currently using it. So, if you have an excess of graffs you need to sell, the domain is up for grabs.

* I made up the name “Graff” because my creations will elicit either a (Gr)oan or a L(aff).

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