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By Laura Grimes<\/em><\/p>\n The pressure’s on. Mr. Scatter, otherwise known as my current first husband, has hightailed it outta town, and his responsibilities mean he probably won’t have a chance to write or find a wi-fi to post for about a week.<\/p>\n But you’re in luck. Before he left town, he got up early to write this review<\/a> of Small Steps<\/em> at Oregon Children’s Theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n At dinner after the show, the Small LSB niftily and oh-so-casually wove it into the conversation that he got to meet Louis Sachar.<\/p>\n I could tell he was stifling a grin and playing cool. “I got to shake his hand. It wasn’t big.”<\/p>\n “What? His hand wasn’t big?”<\/p>\n “No!” he laughed. (Got him!)<\/p>\n “I knew what you meant. And, yes, it was a big deal.” And, no, I wasn’t there.<\/p>\n But I got a report. You can read it for yourself. Mr. Scatter says it’s a good ‘un.<\/p>\n In looking at my schedule, I’ll be in town exactly one weekend day during the run that’s open to the public. Must sign off to buy a ticket … and then finish the book.<\/p>\n *<\/p>\n ILLUSTRATIONS:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Top: Johnny Crawford as Armpit in “Small Steps.” Photo by Morphis Studios.<\/em><\/p>\n Bottom: Louis Sachar\/Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Laura Grimes The pressure’s on. Mr. Scatter, otherwise known as my current first husband, has hightailed it outta town, and his responsibilities mean he probably won’t have a chance to write or find a wi-fi to post for about a week. But you’re in luck. Before he left town, he got up early to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Small](\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/smallstepsbook2-192x300.jpg\" "\\"Small")
I am more than a little envious that he got this assignment. I’m the one who’s had my eye on this show for months. I’m the one who bought the book<\/a>. I’m the one who was trying to see how this could wedge into the schedule and — stink — he landed the gig, skedaddled with the Small Large Smelly Boy (also known as Felix\/Martha<\/a> in some circles), and I was stuck with chauffeur duty for the Large Large Smelly Boy who had a class at the same time.<\/p>\n![\"Louis](\"http:\/\/www.artscatter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/louis_sachar-265x300.jpg\" "\\"Louis")
“Excuse me?” I said. “You got to meet him?”<\/p>\n