The World According To Chuck

About the Book

An autistic son.  A red-haired daughter with an iron will.  A musician-turned-minister wife.  A dog with issues.  A lawn that fights back.  This is “The World According to Chuck,” the often hilarious and just as often moving stories of a 40-something newspaper columnist from Mukilteo, Washington, who every morning walks (and occasionally falls) down the stairs to his basement office and writes about his world.  The World According to Chuck covers almost three years of writing, from just after the Sept. 11 attacks to the summer of 2004, from the end of a record-setting Seattle Mariners season that ended sadly to a man standing on his back deck, making food for his daughter and warding off vampire raccoons.  It skims some current events but mostly and mainly it’s a chronicle of one man’s life, drawn from the pages of The Mukilteo Beacon and The Seattle Times, musings from the Pacific Northwest on family, friends, faith, and occasionally baseball.  You will read about The Inside-Out Boy and a dying father’s legacy.  You will understand The Prophecy and how a single photograph finds the future hiding in the past.  You will learn about the candy store, a little red-haired girl, an unusual boy, a church basement, and how to make sponge puppets.  Seriously.  You will enter Chuck’s World, life according to him, and we suspect you’ll want to stay.

About the Author

AUTHOR BIO Chuck Sigars has been, at various times, an actor, playwright, small business owner, stand-up comic, father, husband, son, columnist, reluctant dental patient, high school high jumper, college DJ, colleague, friend, and occasional fat guy. None of these, he says, he had any particular talent for, although the fat thing seemed pretty easy at the time. He continues to write “Chuck’s World,” a weekly column for the Mukilteo Beacon, and has every intention of exercising one of these days. Any day now, actually. Maybe tomorrow. Or the day after. Monday at the latest. Unless it rains. Which it does sometimes