Bubba: A Gerbil’s Adventure

by Richard Engel, Deborah Dominguez MFT

Bubba was spinning, spinning, spinning and amazingly watching and thinking and learning. No one, then or later, figured out how Bubba learned to put two and two together, especially himself, but he wasn’t about to let anyone know, that’s for sure. He was in a difficult and unusual situation and needed to keep close confidence with just himself. He was fully aware that he shouldn’t be able to think about the things he was thinking, that he should be content to simply eat, drink, and run on his exercise wheel, but something interesting happened to him that made those things pointless. He was only a gerbil, yet he was suddenly reasoning like a human!

67 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 18, 2018

About the author

Richard Engel is an American television journalist and author best known as NBC News's chief foreign correspondent. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008 from being the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Engel was the first broadcast journalist recipient of the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary."

Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His newest book, War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq, published in June 2008, picks up where his last book left off.