we live in newton and we've been coming to newtonville books actually since it was in newtonville. and then friends and family here as well, and i like to welcome the rest of you as well. what i'm going to do is read a couple of selections from the book, and then we will open it up to questions. so i'm going to start with a passage that a road about a birthday party that i threw for my daughter when she was 12. we through the birthday party with the theme of gross foods. so i made pizza that was doctored to look as if it was green and moldy. it had like fuzzy cheese. i made vomit jell-o picky do want the recipe let me know. actually, i used peach jell-o and put in bits and pieces of chopped up pieces of vegetables. i served apple juice in medicine urine sample cups. [laughing] but the best part of this party was the game that we had after lunch. i took baby food, mashed carrots, mashed beef, things like that and i smeared it artfully on diapers to look like to come and the kids had to take each diaper and hold up to the nose and take a good, deep with and identify the food bites. e

this evening because this is our home bookstore and we've been coming here since it was in newtonvil newtonville. we have family and friends and i would like to welcome the rest of you as well. we will read a couple selections from the book and then open up to questions. i will start with a passage i wrote about. i made pizza that was doctored to look as if it were green and moldy. i made fun of jell-o, let me know if you increase recipe. i used peach jell-o with little pieces of vegetables and i served apple juice in medicine urine sample cuts. but the best part of this party is the game we had after alleged. i took baby food, mashed carrots, beets, things like that and i smeared it artfully on diapers to look like t and the kids had to take each diaper and hold it up to their nose. many of them had a full when they went to smell the diapers. this was a joyful discussed we have cultivated and believe it or not it actually holds the key to understanding how emotions are made. it's filled with unintuitive details, very counterintuitive. each day we experienced that the light of happiness, the dre