John Grogan
John Grogan
John Groganis an American journalist and non-fiction writer. His memoir Marley & Mewas a best selling book about his family's dog Marley...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 March 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
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Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.
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I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
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Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.
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Even though I'm totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.
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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.
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I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs.
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I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
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A ban would have been inconceivable 10 years ago. Opposition to smoking goes across the range of ages and social classes.
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As many as 70 percent of kids drop out of sports by the age of 13, and that's a huge issue.
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He was locked in here. The wood door frame was totally gone to the studs.
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Social attitudes have changed. This would have been inconceivable a decade ago. Now there are more women in Parliament and opposition to smoking goes across the range of age and class.
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Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.
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When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.