I don’t always wrap things up neatly; I just write what’s on my mind. This blog has been me, thinking out loud, the sound of someone trying to figure out how to say something true.
The book is a memoir, told the way memory works, or the way my memory works at least. It’s not a clean chronological order, not with all the answers, but in fragments and flashes of brutal honesty that’ has not been easy to put on a paper or say out loud.
It starts in 1996, in a music history class, when a kid who hadn’t slept for three days finally crashed. And it ends somewhere around right now, in a house full of noise and people and a life that took the longest possible route to arrive. In between, the places I’ve never really talked about until now, a lot of ground is covered.
Loss that doesn’t announce itself before it arrives. Fourteen years in a fog. Divorce, courtrooms, kids, jail, and the slow, unglamorous business of learning to be a person again.
I’ve completed the book at this point and writing it was one of the harder and more rewarding things I’ve ever done. Since I do not wish to repeat myself, you can read more about that process here : Fragmented
I will make the book available on any platform I can to make it as convenient for you to find. As of today, it is available in print on IngramSpark here or by scanning this QR Code
You can also find is on Amazon is you have a kindle here
You will see a lot of reference to this blog as you read the book. Quotes and a few full excerpts here and there and even so general inspiration will be clear, if you have read this whole page. That being said, the hope is that this book reaches people who may have never seen this page. Honestly, most of you are my personal friends so I hope it reaches beyond that circle. I appreciate all of you more than I can ever really say, but my circle is small.
With that in mind, I have also reorganized this site into a more logical flow that better encapsulates the recovery time line, from a mental perspective at least and put that into a book. I’ve done this for two main reasons. (A) it serves as a helpful companion piece and (B) This page may not be here forever but the book can be. If you are interested in that book, it can be found here in print or by scanning the QR code below.
Additionally you can find in for the kindle here
I would ask that if you decide to buy either of these books and read them, please leave a review on Amazon. Leaving a review on Amazon is what makes self-published books show up as relevant titles for other people to find. And honestly, I’d like some other people to find it. That’s the point, to let someone who may not know it yet learn that what they’re going through is not only survivable, but that life can look drastically different someday. But I’d like to hear from you personally as well.
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