Getting Ready For Another Weekend of Adjusting....

License To Adjust.

It's Friday June 26, 2015. The sun it out, and it's early enough that I might actually get some writing in before the local Starbucks gets packed. I laughed as I looked at my phone's screen saver which is the picture to the left. It's one that I had to talk Dr. Burke into seriously consider making an advertising campaign out of when I was regularly providing services for him. It could've been the beginning of something fresh, even in its classic replication of a Bond pose, for what was becoming a difficult market to net patients out of in volume. Bill board the right sides of town with this ad and other key socially recognized pictures (Like the TOP GUN guys playing volleyball), and people will not only take you as a good chiropractic group but also one that is in touch and culturally relevant. People like that kind of stuff, and people seemed to like us as is obvious by our making the Minnesota Monthly Magazine's Top Chiropractors list for this very month of June 2015. LOL. It's true.

As I walked up to the place, I noticed I missed a call . It happens more than not because I usually leave my phone on vibrate at work and forget to switch it back. It's usually AARP or some political group wanting some funding, but today it was a publishing agent from Dorrance Book Publishers. The message was short and to the point. "We read your blog story, The Pursuit Of Happiness, we would like to speak to you about having our team review it with your permission." It's the second group that has contacted me about it--my story. The first reached out to me shortly after I finished the first section of the story, This Unbelievable Life. It was this story and its virtual en vivo style of writing that drew in readers from around the world in just a few short weeks. That story, This Unbelievable Life, lead to post cards, letters (both good and not so happy) from people I didn't know. In fact, I still get post cards now and then. So, I guess.

When I started writing these stories, I had no intention of them actually being read by anyone beyond the few people that read or really just looked at the pictures I used to post of my graduate school experience in Northern California. When I started writing the first story, became obsessed with finishing it. I had no idea of what I was doing or how to blog or any of it. I was writing what I thought made sense and communicated what was happening with me and in me in real time. This is where the Current Life Sound Track series came from. With the links to the actual music videos, it made it easier for people to know what was playing in my head by giving the reading a background sound.

As I moved into the second story, Recovery: Surviving & Reconstructing The Dream, I had developed a style of writing, not so much the editing, that communicates well to people giving them a fuller picture of thoughts, ideas, emotions, logical directions in the story, etc. This lead to my most recent story of things to share, The Pursuit of Happiness.It was not till I met my now former girl KC did I think I was going to get to it again. The story is available to read presently.

So now it's the weekend, and I'll write up a Manic Monday review of it, and anything interesting that happens along the way. There it is.