I have taken on a challenge from several friends, acquaintances, family, and even my psychological counselor to write a book. Not a novel, memoirs, or anything like that, but a combination of events in my life where the reader will garner a pearl of wisdom from each section. Hopefully learning at my expense and allowing them to learn from my personal experience vs. them learning the hard way. Make sense?

This process is dredging up some pretty awful and nasty emotions from the past in frustrations with the medical community, the process of diagnosis, distrust, depression, disbelief by the medical community and dealing with Social Security.

Some of this is from 2004 to 2009 and it still upsets me. Writing this book, all of these emotions are just coming back at me in waves and it's not fun. But I know it is necessary to accomplish the mission. Here, all this time, I thought I was over it and past all this. Evidently not.

It must be winter time because my life is in reruns right now.

As human beings we rehash the past, and rehearse for the future. Even events that we believe long since healed can leave a scar at the stump where it once grew, and was pruned so cleanly.

I am happy to see you work so hard at this. What a wonderful project.

What a wonderful idea, Craig...

I hope that you can pull back from traveling through the painful past and just be able to write what you learned. As Eckhart Tolle says, the past is gone, we can't do anything to change it. Getting enmeshed in the past will only waste your present...

Good luck as you work on this...

I'm not one to live or relive for that matter, the past. My point being it does bring all of those feelings back but it won't even slow me down. The key to this book will be a pearl of wisdom contained in each section and each chapter overall. Now, whether someone discovers it or not is totally up to them and where they are at the time they read the book. It's still very early and much to do yet.

Thank you guys for all of your support on this project. I do know there will be 14 chapters and covering many different experiences and things learned the hard way. All to the benefit of the reader not having to make the same mistakes or make their journey a little easier.