The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch

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The Journal of Best Practices by David Finch

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What do you do if your husband doesn't engage with your children, routinely throws temper tantrums, and lacks empathy to a comedic degree?

If you're David Finch's wife you put up with it for five long years...then sit him down to ask some important questions.

That's where The Journal of Best Practices begins.

Just a normal evening, with David's normal end-of-day routine, start in the kitchen, circle the ground floor, this light is on, that light is off, look out the window, line up the houses, go back to the kitchen, walk in circles. Normal...right?

Then he finds himself sitting next to his wife. She's on her computer. She hugged him earlier...they haven't done that in awhile. It was nice.

Then she's asking him random, yes or no questions.
That night, with those questions, David learns he has aspergar syndrome.

This begins David's quest to be the best husband and father he can be.

With a sense of humor that is typically aimed right at himself David tells the story of how he learned that perfection is in the eye of the beholder, who the really important people are, that his children will only be the age they are once, and not to change the radio station when his wife is singing along.

A long bumpy road is turned into a laugh-out-loud story that shows love can survive almost anything...and often has to.

But the real payoff comes with goggles, swim trunks, and bubbles on the nose of a little girl as she tells her daddy she loves him.

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Sounds interesting. I have read a couple of fiction books with the same subject (Don Tillman Book 1 & 2 by Graeme Simsion) and liked them. :)
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Very cool, gravy. Sounds like an interesting story.
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Wow...thanks, guys!

Yeah...I have weird tastes :lol:
Autism/aspergars, synesthesia, locked-in syndrome.
If it's weird and rare...I'm interested :P

It is a very fun (and funny) read.
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