January Jones sharing When Grandma Giggled with author Senior Patricia Wilson

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FOURCY Radio. Who is January Jones. She is not a young, beautiful,

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talented actress on Madman. She is
not an older, gorgeous exotic dancer

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from The Johnny Carson Show. She
is an author and she wrote Thou Show

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Not Why the Eleventh Commandment that rates
number one at Amazon dot com. She

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is a reality TV golf personality with
World High Stakes Golf televised on hd Net.

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She is a huge wrist and whynologist
expert. She is your featured host

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today on January Jones sharing success stories. So sit back, relax, and

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get ready to laugh and listen to
Ms Jones with her eclectic roster of guests

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as you learn life's lessons. These
stories plus sharing equal success. Welcome and

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remember beware because you are entering the
no whining world of January Jones. Hello

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everyone, I hope you're having a
terrific day. I'm January Jones, and

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i'd like to welcome you to our
podcast today. As you can see,

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I'm getting ready to promote my new
brand, Glitter Granny. I'll be doing

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associate affiliate affiliate marketing at Amazon dot
com and we'll promoting be promoting all kinds

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of things that glitter, Caine's hats, jewelry, you name it, and

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we'll make that available. We'll be
launching next month, so we'll let you

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know more about that when it comes. So now for my listeners, let

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me ask you a question. Do
you have grandchildren? Aren't they amazing?

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Isn't it special to be a grandmother? I have seven, and I have

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I'm going to be interviewing another wonderful
granny and we'll be talking about her grandchildren

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and all the wonderful books. Tell
me, do you hope we can make

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this world a better place for our
kids and our grandkids? Well, yeah,

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so of course we do. We
all do. Have you ever heard

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of a trilogy of books at Amazon
Books that are One book that especially was

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entitled when Grandma Giggles, which tickled
me. If you can answer yes or

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maybe, then you are in the
right place. And welcome to January.

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Johnes sharing senior success stories. Now
it's time rest relaxed, Go get some

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wine, get some cheese, crackers, whatever, and join us in the

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no wine zone. Now, let
me tell you a little bit about our

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guest today. She has been writing
inspiring and empowering books for children since two

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thousand and nine. Her self published
work has reached more than fifty countries and

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she has sold over more than eighteen
thousand copies. She has worked as a

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teacher a counselor for thirty two years. She is a mother, and as

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I said earlier, she is a
grandmother. She's been inspired by her students

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starting in classes K through twelve,
and she has taught and her children and

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grandchildren continue to teach her and have
inspired her work. This has been a

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passion project for her. I think
it's been a passion life truly. Let

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me welcome to the show today,
Patricia Wilson. Hi, pat how are

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you doing today? I'm fine?
Thank you for the great introduction. Oh

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it's I'm so excited to have you
on the show because when I saw the

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promotion for When Grandma Giggle, that
just tickled me and I knew I had

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to have you on to the show
to talk about being a grandmother in your

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wonderful books. It's an amazing thing
when senior women are doing the kind of

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things that you're doing. When did
you write your first book? The first

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book was written in two thousand and
six, okay, and it took me

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quite a while to find an illustrator
and get it and I actually got it

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self published in two thousand and nine. Oh wow, so that took you

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three years. You know that's interesting
because when I started getting into the book

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writing business, I went to a
conference in New York, and everyone has

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said to me, whatever you do, don't even ever ever consider writing children's

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books. You said, it seems
like, oh, that would be easy,

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I could knock one of those out. But apparently, and truly I

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know this from experience now, it's
one of the most difficult type of books

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to write. And why do you
think that is, Pat I think we

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have to be very careful as writers
that we are putting the right words into

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little kids' minds. Yes, and
so you have to vet every line.

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You have to make sure that you're
reaching every kid, doesn't matter the rich

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or poor, tall or shorder,
what ever call it, that you want

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to get a book that all children
can on some level relate to. Now,

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the books that I write aren't particularly
like about a little bird or a

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little mouse or a little rabbit.
They're all sort of self confidence building books.

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Or they're very much I say,
quick practical books. Yeah, and

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then you're working helping self esteem.
Before we talk about your books more,

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let me give us a little background
story. Where were you born? And

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you're a little short bio of your
life, your children and your grandchildren.

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Oh wow. Well, I was
born and raised in northern Alberta, in

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a small town in Canada. In
Alberta, Canada, and I went to

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university and took a Bachelor of Education
degree and started teaching just after I turned

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twenty. Okay, and I taught
in a career over forty years. I

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stopped to have my kids and stuff
like that, but I was actually full

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time teaching over thirty years. The
last ten years of my career I was

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doing counseling at the school, okay, and my kids, my two kids

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had kids, which me happy.
I had never thought about writing a children's

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book. I had an entered my
mind. And all of the books are

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inspired by my grandchildren. Oh so
it's just been fun. And my eldest

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granddaughter, who was sort of my
writing news, had really inspired the wording,

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and then my second granddaughter really helped
with the graphics and amazing books.

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So I mean, and then I
got three little boys who just like to

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laugh and play and have fun.
Yeah, that's the boy thing. So

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you have five grandchildren, two girls, three boys. Yeah, I have

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four boys and three girls. I
always tell people that your the grandchildren are

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your reward for not killing your children. The wonderful treasures, aren't they.

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Yes, it's truly a blessing.
And it's just so amazing to watch them

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grow. And it's like you get
a second chance, don't you agree,

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You get to go back because when
you were doing your own children, oh

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my gosh, there was so much
stress and this and that, you had

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so many things to think about.
And then when the grandchildren show up,

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you just can kind of sit back
and watch your children do their thing.

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And I think it's the most amazing
experience that I've ever had. And when

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we feel tired, we just say, see I have to go to bed.

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Well, hand them back, hand
them back. Oh no, I

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think every gandma listening knows exactly what
both of us are saying about that.

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So, so your granddaughters inspired you
to do the book, and tell me

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in what way that happened. How
did that come about? Well, the

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first book I wrote was I Am
Amazing, Oh, which is a book

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I would never write I am amazing
about it because it's you know, you're

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more inclined to say you are amazing. But it came as a result of

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a counseling session with a young girl
who had tried to enter life. Oh,

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she go back to school, and
of course, they said to the

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counseling office. And during the session
it was emotionally very loaded, and I

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was trying to get her to say
that she liked herself. Oh okay,

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and she said I don't and she
just stormed out of the counseling office.

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That's a great session, But it
taught me something very important because that night

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my son phoned and my eldest granddaughter
had been born. She was a few

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months old and he kept saying,
Mom, she's so amazing, She's so

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amazing. And I thought, well, why didn't this other little girl realize

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that she's amazing too? But I
didn't give it a thought. And the

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next morning I awakened and without coffee, I went to the next room,

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and it's like I caught the news
that the book came tumbling in, and

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I had I am amazing, We
are amazing. Life is amazing in a

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skeleton form. Okay, it just
it just came to you. It just

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came blue bloom like that. And
you've ever written a book before? No,

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no, okay, I love this
story. This is a good one.

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Like what do you do with it? You want to change it to

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you are amazing because it's more socially
acceptable. But then I just thought,

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and then at first the original book
was just affirmations, oh, of affirmations

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and my friends in affirmation. But
then my friends thought that it was kind

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of dry, so they asked me
to rhyme it somehow. Oh okay,

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and I really I'm sure you know
this January, but writing is cutting,

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you know, cut, you're right, cut, right, yeah, Because

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my little book is this big,
it's a tiny book. It's six by

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six inches. It's got thirty two
pages and you have to get everything you

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want to say and between four and
five hundred words. Oh wow, so

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oh wow. So I did the
first one, and I found a fantastic

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illustrator who at first had made this
little figure, had put little clothes on

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figures and had a tall one and
a shirt one and a black one,

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and you know all she had tried
to make it as inclusive. Oh sure

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possible. But after a year she
she showed me her drawings and I was

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so excited, and she said,
can I do it again? Yeah?

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And I said, well sure,
And so she came up with this little

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figure who this little figure has no
gender. I know, nothing that will

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divide this. I'm looking at it, and so it's sort of like a

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I call the little figures little soul
cans. I believe we all have a

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soul, and I believe we're all
related. But that's me, that's me.

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But I love that she put the
little heart. Yeah heart, I

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mean that just says it all.
And the figure it's it's it's amazing,

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it's it's brilliant. Actually, in
my I mean, she's a brilliant,

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brilliant artist. And so she did
all three of them. She did.

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I am amazing. It took me. It took me a long time to

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do We are amazing because I was
listening to too much newstcha. You know

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what, while we're sharing a little
laugh, I'm going to take a break

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here and share with our listeners that
if you are a whiner, and if

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you know a whiner, this is
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Lately, there is a whining epidemic
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time? So was January Jones,
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The Eleventh Commandment that reached number one
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her book on a survey of the
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in the style of Irma Bomback,
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published in Korea and China. You
can find Thou Shall Not Whine at Amazon

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dot com off welcome back with one
of my new senior best friends, Patricia

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Wilson. And she is not a
whiner because she is a winner. Of

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course she is. And pat could
you share with our listeners your contact information

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now and where they can get your
book and let's get that out there.

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But first, congratulations number one on
Amazon. That's great, many years ago,

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but wonderful nevertheless, Yeah, wonderful. I agree with you whining.

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I like people to find a solution
rather than spend time whining. I mean,

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mentioned it once, but she gets
repetitive rate. Oh yeah, nice,

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afford to seeing that book. My
books are on available on Amazon dot

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Ca, not dot com their Amazon
dot Ca okay, Canadian? Oh Canadian?

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I don't know. You might have
to find it through Pere Wilson Books

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dot in the Amazon thing and Pere
Wilson Books might be a way to get

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in, but you can do it
with the titles. Okay, yeah,

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and your website, I'm looking at
it. Here is Amazing Books dot com

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right dot ca a dot ca A. Oh yeah I didn't both Canadian and

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info at Amazing Books dot ca a
is my website, like is my my

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email? Okay, info at Amazing
Books dot ca A. Okay, well

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I did Amazing Books and you came
up, so I yeah, I was.

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I was thrilled to see it.
And the books are incredible. They're

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just like Boushell wine. These are
great books to give or to get for

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people. They're just they If you
have a time when you need to give

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a sweet little gift to any of
your loved ones or friends or other grannys

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who are raising grandchildren and dealing with
little ones, these books are incredible.

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I would recommend them highly. And
how old were you? Let me ask

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you, how old were you when
you wrote I Am Amazing Well, I

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was born in forty eight, and
that was in two thousand and six,

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almost sixty and so you started in
two thousand and six. Yeah, yeah,

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that maybe fifty eight. You do
the math? About math, that's

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not my thing, but what I
love about it is. I was fifty

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when I wrote my first book,
and you were into your sixties, And

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it's just this amazing superpower that seems
to come once you become a granny,

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and all of a sudden you're thinking
things and doing things previously never would have

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been possible because you were so busy
raising kids. Don't you think that's true?

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I agree. Yeah, As I
grew up, like I wrote,

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I Am Amazing, and I published
it in two thousand and nine, We

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are Amazing. I waited till twoy
sixteen, so seven years later, wow,

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okay, And then Life is Amazing
I published in twenty twenty two,

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on twenty one. And you know
I grew up with the books. Yeah,

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you know. I had written Life
is Amazing. I had well you

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can imagine writing Life is Amazing.
I started with how little worms, little

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caterpillars go into a cocoon and commote
butterflies, and that these things, and

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then you had would have a book
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able to find it, uh.
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the fact that life was such a
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alterations to the book during COVID,
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glib about what happened in so it's
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lost, And so you don't you
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amazing mm hmm. Instead I went
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because we're here and we get and
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no particular work on our own,
we are here and we get to be

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here, and we get to participate
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our best to make it. You
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you don't have the same understandings in
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reflection. Oh for sure, sure
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because my kid, the kids are
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The truth. Yeah, and your
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Message is short, smart and sweet
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which is what you have to do
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is the amazing part of life.
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it, do you? Get to
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forty three. I just turned eighty
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share share this experience, don't you
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agree with you, and it is
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to be alive when you look around. Yeah, so the grammy giggle came.

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That was when that book came.
When my two little girls and my

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daughter and are were watching a very
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some titles, and it was about
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with a broken leg. They took
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an older woman. At the end
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pastor to let the little frog go, and when the vet leans down to

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release the little frog, she farts
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this. Well, my kids,
my kids were hysterical, and I thought,

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like, hurts are so funny.
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course, I'm an English teacher too. I had to start with when Grandma

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giggled, ah, Philly Salmon smiled, and when Philly Salmon smiled, Gooky

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Goose grinned, and when goofy and
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one, when when Rambo Rhyano roared, Cooky crows cracked up, prostracked up,

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laughy Lama, lost it, lost
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word started. And it only took
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really, really, I mean I
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little I had to do a literation
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goose and stuff like that. And
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and that one was very challenging to
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the top. I thought she just
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is in every every little picture.
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page. It's hidden. Oh yeah, kids love that. Kids love that.

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When Grandma Giggled and a truth related
Pat must tell you that when I saw

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Grandma giggled, I'm just crazy for
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Granny Gifts, and when Granny crowned
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for me. I knew I had
to have you on this show. When

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did you write that book? How
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On this time? Phrase? Okay, I am amazing was the first one

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I always had twenty fourteen, Oh
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The one in between was my magical
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okay? And that one was my
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me, and she was struggling with
nightmares. And so I when I had

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been taking my psychology and teaching and
counseling, I'd run across an article in

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Psychology today that said, when you
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thirty years ago, maybe probably closer
to forty. Funny, how we can

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talk like this week, right they
They said, never if you wake up

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with a nightmare, never leave.
Always go back and either think it or

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imagine it. But change the ending
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You don't want to go to you
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If you've had a nightmare, it's
just not It stays with you unless you

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rejig your energy. And so I
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sleeping beside each other. I said, so maybe if you if you get

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a bad dream, just change the
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You went and when she and I
said, well, did you have

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a nightmare? And she said no, I didn't grandma. And I said,

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well but and then she said,
but I did see my other gradma's

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horse right beside my diad. And
I thought, well, there you go.

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So I wrote My Magical Nightmare,
and it is. It's for kids

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who have nightmares. But I use
it a lot in the cousting office for

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bullying, oh okay, to teach
kids how to use their imagination. They

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get in through the senses. Here's
how I've learned to call her. I

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make pictures with my thoughts mm hmm, imagine how I feel with her.

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And I practice lots and lots.
I see you're standing by me. My

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fingers brush her sides, touching,
I smell her warms, I hear her

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name, and I feel safe inside. And my granddaughter helped me again with

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the line because and I said,
I feel strong inside, and she said,

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no, Grandma, it's safe.
I feel safe. Okay. You

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know when you think about all of
us, it's not just kids. That's

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the key thing that drives our our
trust and our peace. Feel safe,

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feel inside, Like again, I
got tremendousness. Well, I was confessed.

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I think they are brilliant, and
I'm sure you would agree with me.

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And I've noticed through the years that
small people, little people, they

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somehow, in my opinion, are
so connected to the other side. Their

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new arrivals a whole new experience for
them. And I think their DNA brings

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along some things, because I know
several of my grandchildren have said things to

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me that were just incredible things that
had experienced with another grandmother and in another

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life. And they'd say, well, do you remember when such and such

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thing happened? Oh, I don't
remember that at all. And they'll look

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at me and they'll say, well, that was with another grandma. It

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comes out, and it comes out
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age. As they get older,
you don't hear that kind of thing anymore.

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It's kind of they've moved on,
they've moved to this dimension. Now,

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when you're writing, do you feel
you get you know, you said

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you woke up and you had the
whole book in your head. Do you

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feel there's any particular person guiding you
or helping you with these projects or is

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it just coming from a wonderful place? Well, I have to say some

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kind of a source. Like I
don't know. I think somebody wrote a

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book called Catching the Muse, Okay
that I pray love Catching the News.

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I guess that's what it is.
I'd never before or since the three that

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took fourteen years to write, and
I don't think that's more than fifteen hundred

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words. It took me that long
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But you know, I just needed
to I needed to think about how they

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would land into a child's mind because
children's books are repeated, Yes, so

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you want to make sure that every
word has got a frequency that is going

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to land properly in a child's mind. So that's what took the time the

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Grammy Eagle, like I said,
was a short run, fun easy,

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my magic Nightmare. I got a
really good shout out for this artist.

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She took art in university and she
did really amazing art. I don't know

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where you can see it, but
I've got the cover here in front of

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me as it's a wood she So
I managed to find like three wonderful artists,

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oh me, and we're able to
express their gifts because really they're exceptional

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artists. Yeah, and you know
that that gets right back to timing,

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because when the time is right,
things come together. Yeah. Sometimes you

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have no idea how that could happen, but all of a sudden things come

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to you and h and when the
time is right, they are. It's

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wonderful the works, isn't it?
Yeah? Absolutely? M Yeah. Now

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do you have any projects on the
drawing board? I'm always curious to know

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what others seeing your grannies are up
to these days. Well, I about

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five years ago I thought about writing
a book called death et cetera, called

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what Death et cetera? Death et
cetera. Okay, and it's in the

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beginning stages with my experience of death. I listened to your podcast with the

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young woman who wrote about the undertakers
writing about her experiences, and and mine

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would be sort of my my take
on it, but sort of putting a

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light spin on it as well,
like you can't deal with that topic flippantly,

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of course. But my greatest my
greatest teacher was a woman who had

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early onset Parkinson's. Mm hmmm.
She got it. And I watched her

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every step of the way for sixteen
years. And then she she hired me

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to be her counselor. And I
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one. And she said, oh, then I won't anybody, and I

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sure need help. So she made
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tell her what to do. He
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assistant in dying. M h.
I was through that whole process, and

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I gained an unbelievable understanding and respect
for the for that decision and for the

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things that she had to stand up
against. You know, a lot of

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people were saying that she was commeting
getting suicide. Oh, she understood that

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she couldn't live without the medication she
was on. Yeah, And so basically

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all she was doing was getting off
meds. With help from the system.

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to get off her mids and move
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exceptionally inspirational hard to put it into
words, it was an exceptional experience.

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That's so special, and thank you
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that is difficult sometimes to talk about
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dying, and briefly, I want
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Beuchalt not Wine my first title.
I had lost a dear friend and she

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all the publishers said, no, no,

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no, you can't write a book
about dying because no one will want

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to read it. It's too depressing. So then we came up with the

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Eleventh Commandment and now, and I
copyrighted Dying without Whining. And through the

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years, all kinds of people have
contacted me said, oh, we want

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to publish it. When is it
ready? And I'm going, well,

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not now, but I've resurrected it
and that coming out and I have changed

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the title. I've changed it to
Living and Dying without whining, And it'll

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be out later this year. And
yeah, and I'm very excited about it

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because, as you said, that's
a difficult, difficult topic, isn't it.

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It is? But you know,
you're one in forty three, a

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bit, you know, before the
baby boom, But forty sixties is sixty

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four. This huge demographic entered the
world, the baby boomers. Yeah,

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and we're all looking at the same
thing, and we are the majority populations.

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So I think it's really good to
be able to sit and talk about

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what is instead of pretending that it
isn't. I know, everybody that is

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born will die. It's a it
is one of the very few givens of

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our lives. So we can try
to, I don't know, do whatever

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we can and to achieve immortality.
But so far nobody has achieved it in

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the physical form. No. And
you know, one of the topics I

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addressed in my book is that everyone
wants to know why bad things happen to

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good people. And my thoughts on
this is that, hey, guess what,

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no matter what bad thing happens to
you, someone else will have had

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something worse, and no one gets
a pass on bad things, because we're

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here to learn how to cope,
don't you agree? Yeah, I do.

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Yeah, everyone, yeah like it
just you know, and you know,

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there's very various ways of processing it. There's as many ways to grieve

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as there are people in the world. Absolutely, I don't understand grief judgment.

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Yeah, yeah, you're judging an
emotional experience. But you know,

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I guess that's what people are people. But yeah, I think it is.

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It is the one that I myself
think it's really good to talk about

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it. Oh yeah, yeah.
I mean because it's something everyone's going to

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face, and it's something we all
have to deal with. And the older

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you get, as you're losing friends
all the time, it's part of the

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process. And no one gets a
pass on this experience. We all are

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gonna once you're born, you're going
to go through that, and it's it's

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inevitable. And I think the trick
here is trying to help people to grow

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old gracefully. And I had to
deal with the kind of big glass teenagers'

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minds when things don't go right,
where they want to end their lives and

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and you know, I learned a
lot from the students, and I would

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say when I first talked to them, you know, because they were really

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thinking about leaving period, go what
are your believes in the afterlife? And

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they would tell me, and very
often there was they didn't have a belief,

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and so I said, well,
what would tumorrow look like if you

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do this? I think it was
the first time they actually reckoned with that

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question. Yeah, they hadn't really
put that together. And then I would

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say, and what's the rush?
Why today? I would say, like,

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why wouldn't you want to try something? I would say, isn't there

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something you want to do in this
world? Something you want to do before

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you decided to do this other thing? And everyone came up with, oh,

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they wanted to go to the Eiffel
Tower, they wanted to fly an

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airplane, or they wanted to And
I said, well, why did you

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do that? First? I'm not
gonna argue with you, you know,

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and of course, as you know, because we are older, mm hmm.

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This sort of defines the teenage yeers
and if you can just say,

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give them something to look forward to
to make it through the angst of being

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a teenager. No one, thank
god, not one of my students completed

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Oh so wonderful I've got lots still
saving to go to squat but you know,

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hopefully they made it. They most
of them had their own kids.

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Yeah, I've gone through two generations
of teenagers, my own, fer's mine,

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my own, and now my grandchildren. And it is one of the

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most difficult periods for people and families
to NAPA. Don't you think so?

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Well, there's so much happening in
the hormonal the physical changes are pretty you

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know. Oh yeah, they don't. They think of the immediate solutions to

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get out of the pain, you
know, but they don't think what that

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would look like. And I guess
that's why I think Life is Amazing is

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the best book of all. Yeah, just to just understand that life is

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amazing because we're human and we can
give back to life in some way that

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we've been given this gift of life
and in our life we can back.

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And I don't know it was Yeah, I took fourteen years to write a

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few hundred words, but blame me. It was worth the way. And

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it's so wonderful to share this book
with everyone. And I'm so glad I

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could have you on our podcast today. I have to do one more question,

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and this is something I ask everyone
before we end the podcast, Now,

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if you could choose one person living
or dead to have dinner with besides

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me, who would you choose?
Oh yeah, she's thinking, I'm just

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well, okay, you can have
me and one other person. Well,

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let's just invite the dolly Lama and
see what he has to say about what

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everything is going on. Oh,
I have one live right him sitting with

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us too. Actually, I was
on a flight one time and we were

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across the aisle from each other,
and I was so overcome. All I

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could do was just stare and keep
about my Yeah. Yeah, I think

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he has a lot of insights.
I was really interested in one of the

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comments to me. Someone asked him
who his greatest teacher was. Oh,

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okay, what did he say?
Yes, he said mostly tongue. Oh

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everybody thought he would say some venerable
monk, but you're gonna say gandhi.

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But he said, I had to
learn how to deal with such strong negative

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emotions and I had to move to
a place of compassionate forgiveness. And it

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was I just thought that was It
just blew my mind. I thought,

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Wow, there's there's a person who's
walks the hard path. And has still

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got the grace of of compassion.
Right. Yeah, pretty remarkable statement,

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I thought, Oh for sure,
you know, in uh and dying without

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whining. That's one of the things
I've written about just recently is that there

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are so oldsos amongst us. Yeah, they are not here to learn,

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but rather to teach. And sometimes
when people die early, they you know,

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they were too young to die.
How that happened? Oh dear,

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sorry, my watch went off.
But when those people are here, they're

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here for the special mission. And
I have met several and when you meet

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him, you know, you know, it's the real thing. Yeah,

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yeah, and he is definitely one
of those people. And what an incredible

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answer. It struck me. Yeah, it made me understand something I wouldn't

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have never understood somehow, you know. Sure, great, lesson. Well,

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we have to close out now,
And to my dear listeners, I

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hope you've enjoyed our time together today. We've tried to be informative, we've

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tried to be inspiring. My upcoming
guests will all be eclectic and energizing,

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just like Pat we was today.
My eighty year old thought for today is

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about grandma's. Remember, grandmas are
just like your mamas however, without any

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rules and lots and lots of cookies. So Pat, thank you so much,

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and thank you everyone for entering the
no Wine Zone. And please share

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our stories and show with everyone you
know. Remember you need to stop whining

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right now and then start smiling.
And if that doesn't work, then you

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can start eating chocolate, lots and
lots of chocolate. Signing up January Jones

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the Glitter Granny to buy Pat and
come back anytime. I love having you

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with us. Now, everyone take
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