While the official announcement won’t come until June, I just learned today that Dear Austin ~ A Letter To My Son has been named a 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Winner. NAPPA tests and evaluates thousands of books, CDs, toys, and other children’s and parent’s products every year, and publishes a list of their top recommendations.
The NAPPA awards are sponsored by Dominion Parenting Media and promoted in association with parenting publishers across the United States. I’m honored to be featured in their publications, to be on their list of recommended reading for parents, and to be allowed to display the NAPPA seal on this site. Thank you, NAPPA, very much.
from Jordan Rich, WBZ Radio Boston
Jordan Rich, host of The Jordan Rich Show on CBS Radio station WBZ in Boston, has posted an open letter to his son Andrew on the occasion of Andrew’s 18th birthday. It is warm, and comfortable, and full of love and fatherly advice. It is straightforward and without the slightest hint of pomp or judgment. It’s what a letter from a loving father should be. Read it and take note, should you have need to pen a similar dispatch in the future.
Note: Jordan was gracious enough to invite me on his show in September, after the publication of Dear Austin. That interview is posted and can be heard on this site.
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Hometown News Includes Dear Austin
in Annual Special
The Azle News, a small regional newspaper in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of North Central Texas, published its 20th Annual Celebration of the Art and Artists in our Community on November 11, 2010. Included in this annual special section on the arts is a generous article by Carolea Hassard about Dear Austin – A Letter To My Son.
I’m grateful to Bob Buckel, publisher of The Azle News, and to Carolea Hassard, writer/reporter for including me along with dozens of talented artists, writers, and performers who live in and around Azle, Texas. While I grew up in Azle, graduated from high school there, and still have close friends and family in the area, I haven’t actually lived there for many years. So it was particularly kind of them to allow me to be counted among all these wonderful Azle artists.
Most visitors to this site will not have had access to this regional publication so I have posted the article, including the photographs, here on this site. Or click the image above to see a scanned image of the original article.
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