Live Long, Learn a Little, Laugh a Lot

By Duane Hiatt

This is two books in one. First it is the spritely retelling of Duane Hiatt's memories with a theme of "Live Long (in perspective), learn a little, laugh a lot." Second, it is a hangout session to help the reader painlessly begin to capture and preserve his/her own memories.Hiatt writes, "I believe your life and every person's life is worthy of a book. It is a good thing to pass on our life experiences and wisdom to those around us and those who come after us."But most of us need a little nudge (or a big shove) to get our stories down on paper. My observation is that two big hurdles to writing your history are organization and motivation. I would like to help. I'm thinking if you and I could hang out for a while, we would be swapping stories, and saying, at least in our minds, 'That reminds me of the time...'"This book is the hangout. I'm doing the yarn spinning here, but I'm anticipating that at the end of each segment you will fill in the blank space with notes about your own memories. I've also included questions I might ask you if we were sitting on the back porch, or on a break from work around the water cooler, or driving a long stretch of monotonous road with time to kill."My intent is that you will enjoy our time here together, and at the end of the book you will have a desire plus notes and memory joggers to string together your own book, or at least a compilation of events and memories of your past."Once you have done this, I have left a line of the cover for you to sign your name, because this will no longer be my book. It will be our book, and hopefully the first step toward preserving your memories in a recording and/or in print."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990781720
• ISBN13: 9780990781721
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Goat Mountain Publishing
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"