Gosh, I'm sorry I just now got your comments. I'm flattered that you've shared my story with your son.
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Sparkle, I have indeed gotten your note. Thank you for getting back with me and for your kind words. I'm very happy you enjoyed Tao of Muhammad Ali. It would be a big help to me if you let friends know about it. I hope Tao of Ali will eventually receive the U.S. recognition it has enjoyed in the U.K. and other… Read more
Hi, Jen. Great to hear from you. I hope that "Approaching Ali" will receive its Canadian premier within a couple of years. Maybe I'll soon have new pages for you to read; I'm working on a book with the same title as the opera. And it's almost ready for publication. Read more
And thank you, Rick, for your own sad, lovely, humanizing story.
Alex, hi, and great good luck with your career. I'm completing work on a book that will be a collection of my Ali stories. I'd like that book, which will be titled Approaching Ali, to be a big help to developing writers. I'm happy you've found "My Dinner with Ali." I hope that my other Ali stories will feel… Read more
Oops. Opening a copy of Tao of Muhammad Ali, I find that there's an entire chapter that recounts this (first) visit to Mrs. Clay's with my children Johanna and Isaac.
If I were to read one Richard Ford, it would be Rock Springs, which, to me, is a better book than any of his novels. His short stories are among the best of the past fifty years, I feel. And perfect for a plane: you can read one, sit back and feel it, then take on another. Read more
Sparkle, hey. Read more
Wow, Charles. Great story. Read more
Sparkle, it's fun exchanging notes with you. Read more
Very wonderful story. I was hoping people would post their own Ali stories/adventures/anecdotes here. Read more
Hi again, Sparkle. Read more
Hey, I may not have been inebriated at the premiere of "Approaching Ali," but I was wearing jeans. And neither the composer, D. J. Sparr, or I were wearing ties. This upset Mark Campbell, who wrote most/much of the libretto for the opera. But I'm a strange old writer who lives deep in the woods. As Ali said so… Read more
Wonderfully charming incident, RCW. And unquestionably true. I've been with Ali several times when he's done similar things. I may steal your story if I ever write about Ali again. Not to overly self-promote, I hope, it's fair to say that I write about a number of similar experiences in my book, Tao of Muhammad… Read more
Terrific story, Willy. Exactly the way Ali was (and remains today). The ultimate cosmic trickster. Forever messing with whoever is around him, always tugging away at our notions of who he is and isn't.
Sparkle, hi. He was (and is) remarkable. He accepted my children as easily as he had me. All these years later, and after dozens of times hanging out with him, my kids call him "Uncle Ali."
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There's a half-smile on my face and I hadn't realized it. Read more
Instead I say, "See you Easter, Champ." Read more