15% OFF ALL CARRY OUT ORDERS! h•-•-ger) Deli • I9ar • Restaurant The home of Rose Dad's Just A Funny Guy GRADUATION & FATHER'S DAY TRAYS Huntington Woods resident Bob Schwartz pens humorous book on family life. BILL CARROLL Special to the Jewish News C Guttman includes: • 4 MEATS • 2 CHEESE • POTATO SALAD per person COLESLAW • • PICKLES, BREAD, GARNISH & SETTINGS 99 before I go to the office. I also find time to jog each day. In fact, it all began with some humorous essays I wrote for Runners World magazine and spread to writing about fami- ly life for many parenting magazines, plus humor columns in newspapers from time to time. But I also devote some of my time to community service projects and charity work. omedian David Brenner says local Jewish humor writer Bob Schwartz's new book "has limited appeal." But Brenner quickly adds: "The only readers whowill enjoy it Father and author are people who have children, Bob Schwartz: who don't have children or "Sometimes, it feels who once `were children. I like there are many have three sons, so I really more kids around" JN: In the book's tide, you loved it — and it has helped ask: "Would somebody me make the decision to sell please send me to my room!" Shouldn't my children on e-Bay." one of the kids be asking that? Schwartz, who became friendly with BS: Well, when I came home from the Brenner because they share the same lit- office one day, there was chaos every- erary agent, has no thoughts of getting where. In fact, one of the kids already rid of his three kids. That wouldn't be had been sent to his room. To avoid the nice because Father's Day is coming up turmoil, and to get some peace and Sunday, and, after all, the children are quiet, I would have loved to have been the stars of Schwartz's new book, Would sent to my room. It struck me then as Somebody Please Send Me to My Room! A being a good book tide. Hilarious Look at Family Life (Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.; $22.95). JN: Is all of the material in the book It's not really laugh-out-loud humor, new or is it a compilation of anecdotes but readers will have a perpetual smile covered in your essays and speaking on their face as they go through this engagements around the country? funny account of the day-to-day lessons BS: About half of the material is new I of parenting and family life in general — including all of the unexpected twists cover a real variety: newborns, being clueless at the beginning of parenthood, and turns. loud boom boxes, yoga class, sleep-over Schwartz, 45, is a graduate of parties, camps, car-pooling, safety Bloomfield Hills Lahser High School; patrols, ballet lessons, family vacations, the University of Colorado, with a outdoor activities in general, malls, pets, degree in American studies; and the birthday parties, music lessons, shop- University of Oregon's law school. He ping at Costco-type warehouse stores and his wife, Robin, live in Huntington and just a miscellaneous bunch of Woods with their children, Adam, 16, things. Andrew, 14, and Amy, 7 — "although sometimes, it feels like there are many more kids around," he muses. The fami- JN: The only non-humorous page in the book is the dedication page — to ly belongs to Temple Emanu-El in Oak your late father, Stanley Schwartz, who Park. also was an attorney. Schwartz, who also is an author of BS: Yes. He died last year at the age of humorous books on running, the work- 74. He was an extraordinary influence ing world and his views of extraterrestri- on me and was instrumental in helping al life, slowed down long enough to me fashion my approach to fatherhood, Jewish answer these questions for the writing and humor. All of my proceeds News: from the sale of the book will be donat- ed, in his name, to the Make-A-Wish JN: As an attorney with the Southfield Foundation. law firm of Sommers Schwartz, you must have your hands full with your JN: What message do you want to day job. How do you find time to leave for the readers? write, and how did you get started in BS: I hope they just enjoy the humor all this? — and don't take things too seriously. BS: As funny things happen with the People should embrace the humor of family, I jot down ideas. 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