Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Literary
  • Language:English
  • Pages:272
  • eBook ISBN:9798317829117
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798317829100

Silly

Stories in Ordinary Time

By Michael Kauzlarich

Overview

Silly is a collection of autobiographical essays that blend memory, humor, and reflection to explore a life shaped by love, family, food, music, and travel. Moving fluidly between factual recollection, satire, and fictionalized moments, the book traces the quiet transformations that occur over time, in relationships and in the self. With warmth and wit, the essays consider aging, identity, partnership, and the ordinary experiences that leave lasting marks. Some stories are laugh-out-loud funny, others quietly tender, but all are rooted in close observation and emotional truth. By turns playful and reflective, Silly offers an intimate portrait of a life lived with curiosity, attention, and a willingness to laugh at its own imperfections.
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Description

Silly is a collection of autobiographical essays that weave together memory, humor, and emotional honesty. Drawing from a lifetime of experiences, the book moves through childhood, family life, long-term partnership, work, travel, and the slow process of becoming oneself. The essays shift easily between factual recollection, satire, and fictionalized moments, using storytelling rather than strict chronology to explore how ordinary experiences shape identity. Food, music, and place serve as recurring touchstones, grounding larger reflections in everyday detail. Written with warmth and self-awareness, Silly balances comedy and tenderness, often finding meaning in moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. Some essays are lighthearted and playful, others more contemplative, but all share a voice that is observant, humane, and quietly generous. Rather than offering a traditional memoir, Silly presents a mosaic of moments that together form a portrait of a life lived attentively, with humor, affection, and a clear-eyed acceptance of imperfection.
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About The Author

Michael Kauzlarich spent more than twenty-five years as a family physician before realizing that the same instincts that helped him care for people could also help him write about them. His essays and stories explore the humor, ache, and absurdities of everyday life—the small details that reveal how much we all have in common. When he's not writing stories, he's either writing and producing synth-pop music, baking something that makes the house smell like childhood, or drinking coffee strong enough to stand a spoon in.
He lives in the mountains of East Tennessee with his husband. Much of their time is devoted to cooking elaborate meals, arguing about movies, and plotting their next trip abroad—while loving each other fiercely under the suspicious gaze of an indifferent cat.
 Silly is his first book. It probably won't be his last.
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