How did it happen?”“I don't know. It was already burning when I lay down in it.”

Very witty and insightful essays from the "master storyteller" can be found in his second book She Was Already Burning When I Laid Into Her, which became a number two bestseller in the United States only a year after the publication of his the first book Everything I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. From a disastrous wedding to the joy of climbing trees, from the rewards of grandparenthood to the simple yet surprising wisdom of a Zen Buddhist monk, Fulghum has a gift for finding meaning in everyday life.