Shallow Knowledge

I don't know where this is going but I think it's a great title for a book: Shallow Knowledge by Susan Felt.
I had breakfast with my friend Fran today and she said to start blogging this so that this book idea I'm always talking about doesn't fall in the "good idea'' bin like the rest of my conversational books. "Your blog readers will nudge you to keep going,'' she said. She's a teacher. One of the wisest women I know so I'll follow her suggestion.
The idea for the book began like many good ideas, spontaneously and in the backseat of a car. I was driving home from Lake Tahoe (another post) last weekend during my girls' weekend (another post) when I began talking about the weirdness of turning 60 (another post.) We were talking about the list of 100 things you most want to do and how annoying those lists are when I began talking about how surprisingly difficult it's been turning 60. Besides the obvious (you really do have to take calcium pills now (another post) is the realization that I have accumulated no real hard, solid, deep knowledge about any topic like, for instance, cooking pasta. (What is al dente really?) Molding (is cove molding the one that curves in and crown the bumpy one?). How do you pronounce clesetory or however you spell it?) Which Shakespeare play has the line Something's rotten in Denmark? (See. We're talking shallow and I'm an English major.) And don't even start on the books of the Bible.Bible. I have shallow knowledge about a lot of different things (2 cups of water to one cup of rice and dead head your geraniums so they'll keep blossoming) which I am quite willing to share and shamelessly elaborate on regardless of how shallow the knowledge. And Dave, who was kindly chauffeuring us up and back to Lake Tahoe for the day, suggested that would make a great title for a book.: Deep Thoughts. Shallow Knowledge. The idea brewed through the night until the next morning pretty much everything I saw, heard or talked about became fodder for the book. I would have categories: food, geography (this would be very shallow); medicine (again, dangerously shallow); health, literature, entertaining (my depthiest chapter); relationships (again, deep); American history (pretty shallow); World history (see American history); basketball (I'm really good at faking this one.) Music (paralyzingly shallow.) And of course, gymnastics (here I verge on outright falsehoods.) And so on.
This would be more than a tips book. It would be actual shallow knowledge. Lists of things I consider as knowledge under a variety of categories. (See above.) Thus begins the book.