What is "success" to you? So often, in today's society, we get the idea that "success" is tied to our job or our money or the things we own.
Like many of us in real life, this is something that Brad (main character in Last Chance Rescue) grapples with. At the start of the story, Brad is a advertising executive. He's got prestige and respect - and he has money and things.
Yet Brad has an emptiness that, at first, he doesn't want to look too closely at. Then, after a chance encounter with Jessie (and a job crisis), he can't understand the restless, unfulfilled feelings he's experiencing. When (by chance) he is thrown into a rescue, it awakens something in him that he didn't even know was there. After some internal struggle, he makes a critical decision: he gives up his "things" - and his comfortable existance - for something VERY different.
If you'd like to know more about Brad and the search-and-rescue team he's part of, visit http://www.lastchancerescuebook.com/
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Spiral fracture of left tibia
That was the ER doc's diagnosis for my son (6) last Sunday evening. We (family minus our toddler daughter) had just spent 3 really enjoyable days downhill skiing in Lutsen (MN). My son Nathan was going gangbusters. (It's so amazing when your kids start to excel at something.) We had just skied an intermediate tree run called "Molly's Folly" - a run that made ME nervous (it was icy and there was only one track to follow), even after 20 years of skiing - when it happened.
It always happens on the flats. In the tough stuff you're focussed, but you let you guard down near the bottom of the hill and WHAM! The snow monster gets ya. It's so hard to see your kid(s) in pain!
So there was no writing for me this week. Nathan was home for three days (and my daughter for two). It's like having TWO toddlers - you gotta do everything for each of them. It's downright exhausting. Eventually Nathan will get good with the crutches (right now it's a wheelchair, and will be for school for awhile) and it will get better. But right now, tonight, I am mentally too tired to work on anything creative.
Until next time...
It always happens on the flats. In the tough stuff you're focussed, but you let you guard down near the bottom of the hill and WHAM! The snow monster gets ya. It's so hard to see your kid(s) in pain!
So there was no writing for me this week. Nathan was home for three days (and my daughter for two). It's like having TWO toddlers - you gotta do everything for each of them. It's downright exhausting. Eventually Nathan will get good with the crutches (right now it's a wheelchair, and will be for school for awhile) and it will get better. But right now, tonight, I am mentally too tired to work on anything creative.
Until next time...
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Where to Start?
Greetings potential readers. I just wanted to start with a little bit about my book, Last Chance Rescue, and in future posts (as I get the hang of this), I'll expand out to topics I think you might find interesting (such as current or future writing ideas, etc).
Last Chance Rescue is about two people and their internal struggles with intimacy, regret and fear -- and their exploration of what "friendship" and "romance" mean to them -- all played out in the action-packed background of a search-and-rescue team. At the risk of sounding like a well-known commercial, it's got a little bit of everything: adventurous characters, action-packed scenes, and a budding romance!
Last Chance Rescue is about two people and their internal struggles with intimacy, regret and fear -- and their exploration of what "friendship" and "romance" mean to them -- all played out in the action-packed background of a search-and-rescue team. At the risk of sounding like a well-known commercial, it's got a little bit of everything: adventurous characters, action-packed scenes, and a budding romance!
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