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"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." -- Robert Fulghum
Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays.

He has worked as a Unitarian Universalist minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960-64 [1], and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church in Edmonds, Washington amongst other communities well into the 1980s).

During this 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. He was a founding member of the authors' collective rock-and-roll band, "Rock Bottom Remainders". Previous to his professional careers, he also worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, salesman for IBM, and singing cowboy. He grew up in Waco, Texas.

He came to prominence in the US when his first collection, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), stayed on the New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years.

Throughout this collection, subtitled "Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things," Fulghum expounds his down-home philosophy of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.

His prose style is very simple and direct, and finds life-affirming maxims in such mundane matters as zoos, leaf-raking and dusting.

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Total Books: 92
True Love
1998 - True Love (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780061096167
ISBN-10: 0061096164
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 28

True Love Stories
1997 - True Love Stories (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780060187842
ISBN-10: 0060187840
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 12

From Beginning to End
1996 - From Beginning to End (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780804111140
ISBN-10: 0804111146
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 24

Maybe  Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
1995 - Maybe Second Thoughts From a Secret Life [Maybe Not] (Paperback)Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780804111157
ISBN-10: 0804111154
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 32

From Beginning to End  The Rituals of Our Lives
1995 - From Beginning to End the Rituals of Our Lives (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780679419617
ISBN-10: 0679419616
Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 12

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten  Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Maybe  Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
1993 - Maybe Second Thoughts From a Secret Life [Maybe Not] (Hardcover)Paperback, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780679419600
ISBN-10: 0679419608
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 30

UhOh Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
Selected from It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
1992 - Selected From It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It [Writers' Voices] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780929631547
ISBN-10: 0929631544
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 1

UhOh  Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door
1991 - Uhoh Some Observations From Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780679401032
ISBN-10: 0679401032
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Humor & Entertainment
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 37

It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
1991 - It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780804105828
ISBN-10: 0804105820
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 114

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten  Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
1989 - It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780394580562
ISBN-10: 0394580567
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Humor & Entertainment
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 50

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW ILEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
All I Really Need to Know Ilearned in Kindergarten (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781288840144
ISBN-10: 1288840144
Genre: Nonfiction
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 1

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on it
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780586209523
ISBN-10: 0586209522
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Humor & Entertainment
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 1