<DIV><DIV><P>&#8220;My house in Seattle is across the street from an elementary school.&nbsp; A high fence blocks my view, but I&#8217;m close enough to overhear conversations.&nbsp; One morning&#8230;I heard a car door opened, then slammed shut&#8230;a woman&#8217;s voice came blasting over the fence:&nbsp; &#8220;BILLY&#8230;WHAT&#8230;ON&#8230;EARTH&#8230;HAVE&#8230;YOU&#8230;DONE?&#8221;&#8230;My own mother asked me the same question.&nbsp; Often.&nbsp; And I, in my turn asked my own children, who, no doubt have followed the same line of inquiry with their kids&#8230;&#8221;</P><P>Robert Fulghum&#8217;s new book begins with a question we&#8217;ve all asked ourselves: &#8220;What on Earth have I done?&#8221;&nbsp; As Fulghum finds out, the answer is never easy and, almost always, surprising.&nbsp; For the last couple of years, Fulghum has been traveling the world - from Seattle to the Moab Desert to Crete - looking for a few fellow travelers interested in thinking along with him as he delights in the unexpected: trick-or-treating with your grandchildren dressed like a large rabbit,&nbsp;pots of daffodils&nbsp;blooming in mid-November, a view of the earth from&nbsp;outer space, the&nbsp;mysterious night&nbsp;sounds of the desert, every man's trip to a department store to buy socks, the raucous all-night long feast that is Easter in Greece,&nbsp;the trials and tribulations of plumbing problems&nbsp;and the friendship one can strike up with&nbsp;someone who doesn't&nbsp;share the same language.<I> What on Earth Have I Done?</I> is an armchair tour of everyday life as seen by Robert Fulghum, one of America&#8217;s great essayists, a man who has two feet planted firmly on the earth,&nbsp;one eye on the heavens and, at times, a tongue planted firmly in his cheek. Fulghum writes to his fellow travelers, with a sometimes light heart, about the deep and vexing mysteries of being alive and says, &#8220;This is my way of bringing the small boat of my life within speaking distance of yours.&nbsp; Hello&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;</P></DIV></DIV>