Book discussion: Rituals of Our Lives

The Book Discussion Group of Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community will meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, at the church hall, 39 Park Ave., Bordentown, NJ 08505. This month’s topic is Robert Fulghum’s book, From Beginning to End, the Rituals of Our Lives.

Fulghum came to prominence 25 years ago with his book, All I really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.

Here is some biographical information about him from his website.

Robert Fulghum was born in 1937, and grew up in Waco, Texas. In his youth he worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, and singing cowboy. After college and a brief career with IBM, he returned to graduate school to complete a degree in theology. For 22 years he served as a Unitarian parish minister in the Pacific Northwest.

During the same period he taught drawing, painting, and philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. Fulghum is an accomplished painter and sculptor. He sings, and plays the guitar and mando-cello and was a founding member of the The Rock-Bottom Remainders–a rock and roll band of author-muscians. He is a member of The Beat Goes On Marching Band of Portland, Oregon, in which he plays cymbals and tambourine.

Robert Fulghum is married to the painter, Willow Bader. He lives part-time in Seattle, Washington, Moab, Utah, and in Kolymbari on the Greek island of Crete.