Trophy Husband: A Survival Guide to Working at Home » (1ST)

Steve Brewer spent twenty-two years in the newspaper business, working in his native Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and California, before becoming a work-at-home dad. He is the author of eight mystery novels. Since 1998, his weekly humor column, "The Home Front," has appeared in The Albuquerque Tribune and other newspapers around the country. He now resides in Redding, California.

The mixture of faxes and jelly sandwiches, deadlines and kids' soccer games that is the world of the working parent has never been funnier than when Steve Brewer tackles it. A novelist, columnist, and a father, he has turned his column on house husbandry into a creatively humorous book.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Zen of Working at Home, or Are You Ready, Grasshopper?
Chapter 2. How I Became a Trophy Husband: The Inspirational Story of Finding Redemption in Clean Socks
Chapter 3. Successful Telecommuting 101, or Is It Safe and Tax-Deductible to Plug a Computer and a Cuisinart into the Same Outlet?
Chapter 4. A Memo from Headquarters to Those Who Work at Home
Chapter 5. Deadlines and Buzzwords: Managing Your Home-Based Career
Chapter 6. Dr. Dustbunny, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Broom
Chapter 7. A Man Wears the Pants in the Family, Even If They're under an Apron
Chapter 8. So You Don't Know Your A:/Drive from a Hole in the Ground
Chapter 9. Rearing Children, or Beware, Here Lie Monsters
Chapter 10. My Dog Ate My Homework and My Sprinklers
Chapter 11. Home Repairs, or Who's Been Monkeying with My Wrench?
Chapter 12. The Great Outdoors: You Mean There's Life Outside the House?
Chapter 13. Taking Care of Body and Mind, or Better Living Through Napping
Chapter 14. Around the Calendar, or School's Out Again?
Chapter 15. Conclusions, or, Is It Time to Update My Résumé?