So, I wanted to give a little shout-out to my best friend, a true servant/genius named Peter Gross. He’s moving to Ghana with his wife Jessie, and thank God and the angels, he’s decided to write a bit about the experience. Currently, he’s in the Phillipines and discovering new and exciting discomforts that no doubt [...]

This year, as a way of saying thank you to all the wonderful individuals who have participated in the life of aspiring author Charlie Pratt (that’s me), I wanted to pay tribute to all those who’ve found themselves on harder times this holiday season. The entirety of my book, Diary of an American Boy: A [...]

Been thinking about characters lately. You ever do that? Think about characters? Come up with completely fabricated individuals that laugh, fart, make frivolous purchases, say mean things to their spouses, achieve things, worry about finances, like particular brands of ice cream, and listen to obscure eastern European polka/rock fusion bands? I’m thinking today I’ll start with [...]

Anyone who comes to this website on any sort of regular basis knows that I like to throw out ideas. Some of them stick, many of them don’t. Basically I want to do it all. This desire, I’ve learned, is one of the worst places to be. Wanting to do it all is paralyzing. Imagine if [...]

This is one of those moments where I want to snort and cry at the same time. To those of you who’ve bought the book, I have an apology to make. I am sorry that I couldn’t obtain an editor before I released this book. Clearly, there are some errors. That’s my bad. The current version [...]

Someone stole me booty. In today’s lingo, that’s more likely to be club-speak for, “Hey Rick, why are you dancing with my lady,” or a self-righteous reference to one’s recent triumphs with the Stairmaster. Pirates get a bad rap. This due, by and large, to all the plundering and poor hygiene, but one of their most lamentable [...]

Kindles are strange to me. I’ve held one and used one, and I can’t get around the fact that there’s no ink pressed into paper. This is, without question, one of the first signs that I’m no longer hip. These are the revelations that yield moments later in life when a young person (see, I [...]

I’m facing a new challenge on the other side of having completed a book. This new challenge isn’t the selling of the book (it’s going smoothly, sales are clipping along nicely, bless all of you and your wonderful generosity), getting the word out about the book, or the worrying about whether or not it’s the [...]

E.B. White, George Carlin, and Kurt Vonnegut would agree. I’m not suggesting these three gentlemen would have difficulty agreeing in the first place, but I’m not entirely sure. They were all quite unique, and held strong opinions. But there’s one man they’d agree about, if they weren’t all dead. There are many of you who may [...]

I‘m very proud—stunned, even—to announce that, after nearly a solid year of effort, thirty-four agent rejections, twelve major revisions, three cover designs, that Diary of an American Boy: A Poet, Athlete, Stud, and a Liar is officially available for purchase! I kept the acknowledgements in the book to the bare minimum, because there’s no way I [...]