HOW TO EAT FORECLOSURE, DATING AND OTHER MID-LIFE ELEPHANTS
Author: M. S. Hembree
Published by Smashwords.com
© 2010 All Rights Reserved
Preface
This is a small collection of self-help and other topics that hopefully will assist you with a concern or give you a reason to smile. In this economy, we need to work together to make our short lives as anguish-free, as possible. How lucky are we that we can take another breath and enjoy reading, comprehending, musing—even if we do have concerns? In this book, I document specific socio-economic issues that are troubling in 2010, and present their potential solutions in a conversational way. Since I have personally gone through each and every one of these chapters in my career or personal life, and am still able to breathe and type, why not share the optimism? That being said, this book is dedicated to everyone who invested in this worthwhile-and-took-me-three-years-to-write literary work. It’s also dedicated to the Colonel; a Green Beret in Vietnam and a Special Forces Hero in my heart. His life story, chronicled in the autobiography of: “CrazyHead,” made the energy for this and my other books possible. ~M.S.H.
HOW TO EAT FORECLOSURE, DATING AND OTHER MID-LIFE ELEPHANTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One: Introduction: WTF this Book is About
Chapter Two: The Foreclosure Relief Elephant
Chapter Three: The HOA Elephant When You Are Hugely Overdue
Chapter Four: Your Business Can Stay in Shape: The Elephant Diet
Chapter Five: On the Subject of Eating: An Under-valued Food Staple
Chapter Six: Healthy Cooking and Humor: Grill Accessories For Men
Chapter Seven: How to Devour the First Date Conversation Elephant
Chapter 1: Introduction—WTF this Book is About
Problem-solving.
It gets easier when you get older. I’m forever 20-something because I’m stuck in the 80s. However, I NOW know after working in the cable television business, working in the government and bumbling from sales to national marketing to public relations to owning a nonprofit corporation, that often--problems can be like elephants.
Some people try to avoid talking about them—like the proverbial elephant on the coffee table. There he sits, taking up all the square footage in the living room and the shy, the politically correct and the introverted will squeeze around him and pretend he’s not there.
It’s sort of like an updated version of “the Emperor’s New Clothes.” Remember the story? This big, fat, arrogant emperor appeared totally naked in front of his subservient kingdom announcing that he was wearing his “new clothes,” knowing that his daunting audience would be too scared to contradict him. Sure enough, his adoring crowd remarked about how his “new clothes” looked fantastic. The people emulated each other, afraid to be honest. Each person got more and more descriptive about the imagined outfit that the emperor was supposedly wearing. All of a sudden, an innocent child crowed from behind the masses, “What are y’all talking about?” Evidently, this story took place in the South but that’s beside the point. The kid went on to say, “He’s totally naked!” Out of the mouths of babes or kids say the darndest things—whatever--but the people started bobbing their heads up and down, murmuring about how the king should cover up that hideous blubber. And so he did. The common thread here between the elephant metaphor and the Emperor story is, you’re right: blubber.