Dropping In on the Waves of Life: Something's Brewin!

By P L McBride

"P.L. McBride offers a very readable set of surfing experiences that serve as life lessons for young readers looking for direction and inspiration on their path to adulthood. Filled with drama, humor, and insight, it is a surf version of Aesop's Fables." -Jim Kempton, CA. Surf Museum Executive Director, and former editor of Surfer Magazine

What do a stolen candy bar, an ill-planned fifty-mile bike journey, and a collision with a huge bully's surfboard have in common? In P.L. McBride's "Dropping In on the Waves of Life - Something's Brewin' ", these seemingly random experiences become powerful lessons in navigating life's unpredictable waters.

Drawing from over fifty years of reading ocean swells, veteran surfer and educator McBride transforms these skills-reading conditions, positioning, committing to the drop, and recovering from wipeouts-into a compass for life's unpredictable currents. Through honest, at times humorous personal stories, McBride reveals how these fundamental surfing skills mirror the exact tools we need to navigate our most challenging moments.

Whether you're paddling into adulthood's intimidating breaks or reassessing your position on life's wave, these stories offer practical wisdom wrapped in salt water and sunshine. For young readers facing their first big decisions and adults reconsidering their course, this collection demonstrates that life, like the ocean, rewards those who learn to read its patterns, commit fully to their chosen waves, and paddle back out after every fall. Something's always brewin' beyond the horizon-and with the right mindset, it's usually something good.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966799837
• ISBN13: 9781966799832
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: MindStir Media
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary