The Road Home<\/a>,<\/em> will arrive on my doorstep in Chesapeake, VA tomorrow afternoon! These I will use to provide signed\/personalized copies to my many friends and relatives and to have on hand for sale at various events such as book-signings, speaking engagements and other venues. The rest of the first edition copies are about to arrive at the publisher\u2019s warehouse from where they will be sent to individual buyers and booksellers, e.g. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.<\/p>\nIt is hard to describe how I feel right now after thinking about and working on this\u00a0project for over two decades. While it would be easy to fall into a bittersweet mindset, I am choosing to celebrate. Right now, even though I am recovering from my first-ever bout with pneumonia, for me the air is vibrating, my senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and even smell are keener than I have experienced in years. Perhaps, the prescribed steroids I\u2019m taking have something to do with it but, I swear, time has even come to a near-standstill. Kind of like Neo (Keanu Reeves) when he became one with the Matrix (hope you are familiar with that movie). All because I am about to realize a lifelong dream: I am about to become an author, not just a writer.<\/p>\n
Those of you initially reading this blog are probably well-aware of the subject of The Road Home,<\/em> so you immediately understood why it might be easy to fall into a funk just as I am about to achieve something I have worked so long and hard on. For those of you not aware of what this book is about, it is a retelling of my wife\u2019s 28-year battle with cancer, our faith journey and love story. It also relates the first year of the grief process following Debbie\u2019s death nearly three years ago. It\u2019s raw, real, heart-rending and, believe it or not, funny.<\/p>\nWhile I fully intend, in the future of this blog, to share my experience of the realities of the cancer battle and grief process, most important, I want to hear from you, from your life. I want this blog to be of help to folks in the battle as patients, support persons, survivors and those in grief. Basically, if you have cancer, or if you know, love or have lost someone to cancer, I intend for this blog to be a source of information, community and strength.<\/p>\n
One strictly enforced rule: There shall also be plenty of humor and frequent movie references.<\/p>\n
Beyond the topics of this, my first book, I also want to spend significant time sharing my upcoming projects. I want to help people move on in life.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to sharing and hearing from you,<\/p>\n
Chuck Wilson<\/p>\n
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