Spoiler alert: If you ever plan to publish a book, three lessons you will learn

Author jeff noel's best selling book, MidLife Celebration
Author’s first best selling book, Mid Life Celebration

 

Three reasons publishing a book elevates someone’s mind:

1. When someone says they are a writer, what they really mean is they are an author.

2. A book is a body of knowledge (of which the author is now an expert), either fiction or non-fiction.

3. An original body of work takes an attitude and mental capacity they never knew they had.

You will arrive at a place of understanding that changes you.

Changes. You.

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Guest blogger Lorie Sheffer: Afternoon delight

15-year old dog is enthusiastic about walks
Professor Sweet Pea (Photo: Lorie Sheffer)

 

This week I said yes to afternoon duty for my friend’s 15-year-old dog. My friend passed away last summer. This dog was her baby, the same as my two cats are my feline children. When the nest gets empty the maternal instinct needs a focus, I suppose. Adult daughters have jobs to go to, and elderly pets that lose their primary caregivers deserve to be kept to their routines as much as possible. Somehow a pet seems like a living reminder. They become even more precious. This “baby” needed some day care.

It’s nice to have something be that excited when it hears your key in the door. It’s nice to have someplace to be every day at approximately the same time. It’s great to have to take a daily walk, no excuses; because after all it’s not for YOU it’s for something else. It’s somehow inspirational (and yes, hilarious) to administer heart medication concealed in a potato roll to a geriatric dog and then have that dog drag you down the sidewalk. One rather small, extremely well loved and cared for elderly dog that has lost her human parent. I think we’re an excellent match.

I’ve never owned a dog. I like dogs; I just never knew what to do with them. I’m learning, though. I have a teacher named Sweet Pea.

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Two really weird things about the final week of this 34-year book journey

Amazon auto message for Mid Life Celebration delivery date
Placed order Nov 21… expected delivery is 5-7 weeks later.

 

Two more days until Mid Life Celebration’s official announcement.

Two really weird things about the final week of this 34-year journey:

  1. The coolness of being completely done, well ahead of the Christmas goal.
  2. How insanely crazy it is on the back end to coordinate all the moving parts, and manage the pressure

Surreal. Knowing all this, and not telling a soul.

In the craziest of thoughts, it’s like a prisoner must feel just two days away from being set free, after a lifetime of living in captivity.

Surreal.

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