Bob Schwartz
Humor Writer

About Bob

In looking back on my years as a parent, there’s one word that quickly springs to mind. “Naive.” That’s French for “Buddy, you don’t have a clue.”

But I found some comfort in realizing I wasn’t alone. There were other grown ups just like me. Everywhere. I figured, as a form of therapy, I needed to share the depths of my ignorance with other parents. And since I possess an inability to be serious for more than short stretches, a humorous writing career with an emphasis on family life was born.

Years later, my humorous parenting essays have now been published in over 140 magazines and appear regularly throughout the country. This either means there are many other parents who wish to revel in the common craziness of family life or editors simply take pity on me. I vote for the former.

When not involved in the intellectual challenge of coaching my children’s sports teams and imparting crucial wisdom like the need for actually dribbling the basketball instead of running 50 feet with it under your jersey, I write three columns. These include a weekly slice of life humorous newspaper column entitled Laughing Matters, a funny column on family life that appears regularly in numerous parenting magazines throughout the United States, Canada and Australia and a humorous monthly column on running (Running in the Laugh Lane) which has appeared in over 45 magazines.

And in between learning the finer art of creating balanced pigtails, which pass the muster of the keen carpenter ruler eye of a six-year-old, or cracking the grunt communication code of teenagers, I’ve authored four humorous books. My upcoming humorous book on family life is aptly titled Would Somebody Please Send ME to MY Room! and will be published by Glenbridge Publishing Ltd. in June 2005 with comedic illustrations by award winning artist BK Taylor.

I also write humor beyond the subject of family life and have authored a funny look at the sport of running. That book is entitled, I Run, Therefore I Am – NUTS! (Human Kinetics, 2001). Clearly confirming that runners are indeed NUTS is the mind boggling fact that such a book has gone on to sell over 25,000 copies and was selected as one of the top 25 running related books of all time (and yes, I assure you, there have been more than 25 books written on running). Information on other books can be found at Check Out All Of Bob's Books

I graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in American Studies and was thus qualified for nothing except writing term papers and working in fast food. With such solid planning, I thereafter did what all others do - - I killed three years and went to law school. I received my law degree from the University of Oregon and soon thereafter began my humorous writing career.

I live in Huntington Woods, Michigan with my lovely wife (who still laughs at my jokes but now wonders why) and our three children who unintentionally supply me with an endless stream of humorous material.

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