Just Finished Writing Anthony's Book!!!!!!!!!

It took me a long time to finish Anthony's book. He is the monk-turned-business-mogul-and-family-man who hired me to write his life story. We met for coffee many times to talk. He handed over folders and files and greeting cards to me. He told me about his boyhood, his travels, some daring risks.

Sadly, he died two years ago, at age 79, before I was finished. Over that time, I have been sending chapters to his daughters for review. We will self-publish it. It will be called Fly Me to the Moon, because that's Anthony's song.

Life unfolds in funny ways. I couldn't seem to complete the book. First, I was derailed by Punch and all of her appts and needs. Then I was depressed in spurts. Then I was otherwise engaged, writing for Aspire. Or paralyzed with worry about Figgy finding, or not finding, her path. When I was writing about Anthony's death--he was surrounded by his family at home when he died--I relived and mourned my own good Dad's passing, by himself at the hospital in the dark of the night. [Sis, Will and I had gone home.] Anyway, the whole thing became a cycle of feeling guilty that I had not finished the book before Anthony died--and now he was watching from above--and being immobilized to park myself at the laptop and do it. Maybe a part of me didn't want to complete the writing because then I wouldn't be able to list it as a project I was working on--in case my assignments dried up.

Now, after a hiatus and a change in staff, I was recently rehired as a freelance writer for goodcook.com. But before I could really bite into that, I knew I had to finish this.

I am paid by the hour. Here are the hours I worked on it today, in between two second-grade girls going in the sprinkler and doing spa treatments in the bathroom and one husband barbecuing dinner.

4:30 to 6 p.m.
6:30 to 6:45 p.m.
7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

That is a total of 2.75 hours--of some serious writing, detailing a brave man's fight at the end of his life. Quite different from writing about can openers and spatulas.

Good night.

Gratitude.

TCOY 

1. Using Kiehl's Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque now; luckily, the two little girls left some in my jar.

2. So much ice water.

3. Made fresh lime/toasted coconut/coconut milk/frozen banana/flaxseed superfood smoothie! Yum.

4. Corn on cob. 5. 7 a.m. support group, including meditation.