Purchased. Looking forward to reading it.

Thanks!

Your profile says you are in Heath. Plenty of those essays were written in and about things in Rockwall.

Hope you enjoy the read.

You deserve the honor Neal.

Ordered one for me and one for my son who is the father of my grandkids.

Neil,

Congrats to you and Alex and your journey. I've followed it from the sidelines here.

I don't have stars at the moment, so can't DM. Would it be possible to get your email? My wife is in the early stages of writing a book in the educational space. I was hoping we might be able to get any lessons learned on the process. Wisdom regarding how to plan / structure something like this, the writing process, people to contact regarding publishing / editing l, etc.

I figure you probably have a whole lessons learned that could help her get in the right track and build her belief she can do this.

TRD-Ferguson said:

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Ordered one for me and one for my son who is the father of my grandkids.

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I really wanted to have fun with the wording of this, but just couldn't on this thread.

You can reach me by e-mail at adventure AT okieschool.org (note its org and not com).

I'm still learning as I go, but I am happy to share my experience and what I have done so far.

Thanks!

Just saw that this is available.

I enjoyed my read last year.

Well done!

Thanks and thanks for being a pre-reader!

If you are so inclined, posting a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads would be a big help. And if it's a hassle and you'd rather not, no worries at all.

Will do

Got it.

Thanks.

Got my copy today!

Finally sat and started reading and between chapter 0 and page 12 I was really enjoying it. That last line of page 12 nearly did me in. I knew Chapter 1 was going to be tough had been forewarned, here, others that have read it already, and now my own experience of reading. Wow! Not sure I am going to be able to put this down again. Now on to page 13.
Nvm, I cant say it near as well as you did.

Thanks, spud!

Shouldastayed - I don't have page numbers down but I was sure I knew exactly what line you were refering to. Time, faith, and perspective have healed a lot of sorrow, but even though I have seen and thought about that line thousands of times, it still gets me every single time.

You don't know how much the feedback means to me. If you go fishing, at the end of the day you know how you did. Golf, bird hunting, fix a sink, make a sale at work, repair a piece of equipment - or break one! , etc, you see the result and can take satisfaction or lessons learned from that feedback loop.

I have discovered that one of the unnerving things about writing for the public is you send it out into the universe and hope for the best, but for most of the readers you will never hear what resonated and what didn't.

I guess in that way it is kinda like fatherhood, too. You get little peeks here and there about the job you are doing, but you don't really know how good a job you are doing for a long while.

Thanks for taking the time to share that and I hope you find that everytime a heartstring is plucked a funny bone is tickled not too many pages away.

Just finished and left review on Amazon. I love your ability to use words and convey feelings and emotions - what a gift. It's been a joy watching your videos as well. You have a story to tell (we all do) - and thank you for sharing it.

It is the line about making a promise to your daughter and not being able to keep it. It brought a lot of things into my head and heart that I had squashed and not dealt with in a long time. Thank you for putting this book in our hands, I am already experienceing some self healing and am not that far into it yet.

Wow, just wow...

I'm looking forward to the rest of the story...

Well. It took two weeks due to delays with weather but I got your book today! Can hardly wait to start reading it tonight!