My Book

Update – February 2022: *New working title – The Road to Boston!

In the spring of 2020, I had hired an editor to give my work a deep dive, an editorial evaluation, I believe is the term. She suggested an alternative format, which I thought about – and decided to go all.

First up, I changed the narrative to chronological order, basically Tom’s health story, up to his first marathon. Plus I’m relating these stories as Mile Markers. There are also some side stories that will fit in as Water Stops.

What tickles me is that when I reviewed the different events and stories since his diagnosis up to April, 2015, the first marathon, I found 26 events on this list! Oh, in case you’re wondering, a marathon is 26.2 miles. Cool, yes?

For several years, I have been writing a book, *Driving Home from Boston: 12 Lessons to Help You Navigate Crisis.. Ironically, I have hit some very real roadblocks of my own, and have not finished this project.

(But looky here, I entered the first paragraph in a contest)

However,  I keep going back to it, and my most recent motivation is from Alicia, a dear person and colleague that I met at a writer’s retreat in Vermont two years ago. This is where the book took on new purpose, and a whole business concept sprang from several group discussions. This very site is part of that concept.

So what was the motivation? Alicia just formed a private Facebook Group for those of us who have been spinning ideas and perhaps not enough actual words. The group is quite young (as of January 2016), but she’s got some great ideas to get us writing AND publishing. And Alicia knows what she’s talking about, she <——- just published this gem on Amazon.

Currently I’m at about 5,360 words and 19 pages of my own manuscript, hopefully I’ll be joining Alicia and other friends as a published author. I have given myself till the end of March 2016 to finish the first draft. I think I can do this. Wish me luck!

Carry on.

Shanti and Shalom.