Ted Ringer: 6 books

A "Bedtime Story for Big Kids," this tells the funny story of a baby who, yes, was born with a beard. This is the tale of his family, told by the bearded one, from the unusual moment of his birth, up to the time he speaks his first, momentous words. Dad battles a blizzard. Mom gets...

Drawing and Dreaming is a classic declaration of independence from the tyranny of rote performance. Children and adults will appreciate the call to creatively explore their imaginations with this whimsical and colorful book. Gain confidence with each turning page. Exercise your inherent right to create, to reason individually, and to make goofy pictures of everyone you know.

The story of an aging Deadhead who attends a concert in Eugene and gets caught up with the greedy IRS (who wants his money), a delusional CIA agent (who wants his bootleg tape), and the Grateful Dead (who want him to stop the Coffee Cartel from destroying the rainforest).   Our hero makes a brave stand against the forces of bureaucracy, fast food, and evil. Things will never be the same.

The year is 1872 and Gus, a young accordion player from Minnesota, is stricken with Terminal Hay Fever and must go West for his health. He hits the trail with a song in his heart and with his trusty horse, Mrs. Mitchell. It's a wild frontier. Cows, Indians, Love. What will get him first? A...

The observations of a regular Ed. The more things change, the more they stay the same!

In this clever short story, Norton, a writer of how-to books, dreams of writing a novel of epic proportion when the world of words begins to de ... det ..., uh ... come apart. Now, nothing will ever be the sa ... sa ... how it was before.