![]() Along with his father drawing comparisons between Donny Osmond (a famous child singer-danger) and David, the author begins to feel like a failure. As a boy, he wasn’t good at swimming most of his ribbons were for “good sportsmanship.” Sedaris looks at his mother’s humorous insistence that he continue to swim, as well as his father’s ribald praise of another Greek boy, Greg Sakas unlike David, Greg is a talented swimmer, and his father doesn’t hide his praise. Sedaris looks at both his current practice of swimming and the lessons he took back when he was ten. The author says that when he was fifty, he intended to get into opera. The story “Memory Laps” focuses on Sedaris winning the approval of his father. The title comes from a real-life reader asking Sedaris to write, “explore your heart,” in a book she purchased Sedaris instead wrote, “explore diabetes with owls.” The book’s themes include the nuances of love, the meaning of family, and how to endure life’s absurdity with a light heart. The twenty-six pieces range from contemporary politics (gay marriage universal healthcare) to daily absurdities in life (colonoscopies that end up being fun peculiar parental habits airline behavior people who take forever to order coffee). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013) is a collection of humorous personal essays and fictional satiric short stories by popular American writer David Sedaris. ![]()
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