Fears Of Your Life

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Everybody has fears in common and in this unique handwritten book, the author (an adult with developmental disabilities) battles his fears by listing more than 138 of them. He explores the depths of our most human emotion from small fears, like 'fear of bats' and 'fear of being different', to more complex fears like 'fear that if you put too much toilet paper in the toilet bowl it will run over and get all over the floor and on you and on someone else too, it would leak from upstairs to the next floor below'. This is a uniquely offbeat account of common worries and fears.

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"When was the last time you identified every single one of your fears and showed them to the world" Miranda July, O magazine "Loggins is hard to resist..." San Francisco Chronicle "...the books ongoing phobic inventory summons up images and moments that encourage us to exorcise our dread with laughter." LA Weekly
"When was the last time you identified every single one of your fears and showed them to the world" Miranda July, O magazine "Loggins is hard to resist..." San Francisco Chronicle "...the books ongoing phobic inventory summons up images and moments that encourage us to exorcise our dread with laughter." LA Weekly

Author Bio

Michael Bernard Loggins is the author of Fears of Your Life, a handwritten illustrated book in which Loggins chronicles more than 180 of his fears both great and small, and Imaginationally, an illustrated dictionary of words he created to describe his daily experiences and thoughts. Fears of Your Life has been featured often on NPR's This American Life, excerpted in Harper's, and adapted for the stage and performed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Loggins worked for many years with Creativity Explored, an art studio for adults with developmental disabilities. He lives in San Francisco.