I am very excited to have finished writing a book I had a wonderful time writing, and now it is finally available online for you!
Publishing in prior years was a very difficult thing to do: submitting your work to a publishing company did not necessarily guarantee it would ever get their seal of approval. If you have creative juices flowing that you feel in your heart are worthy of being made available to the public, whether by pen, lens or instrument, then if a “blog” isn’t enough for you, you should give yourself a chance and look at what the following website could do for you!
I was inspired to write a book to challenge the children in my wife’s 4th grade class to see the possibilities of their life in a more encouraging, hopeful way. I was helping out as a volunteer teacher aide, working with a portion of her 33 students – her greatest need being my greatest strengths: reading, and math. Since it was her class, it was her responsibility in her mind to help the students who struggled the most to catch up to the ones who were getting the work done at a more desirable pace. Therefore, I had the advanced reading students; but my recollection isn’t that I had students who understood math concepts all that well.
It was from that challenge to help these students have a foundation from which to be able to continue building good study habits that I felt compelled to write a book for them! In Adventures of the Heart there is a weaving together of different concepts that came to my mind as methods I hoped these students might consider as worthy of utilizing in their daily routine: journal writing, honesty, forgiveness, friendship, responsibility. Above all else, I have tried to make it fun, in life and in print, by keeping a sense of wonder alive so that there was always a reason to be actively engaged with the mind as to “the possibilities” of the future (providing a safeguard against boredom).
Adventures of the Heart. As the story unfolds, you will quickly realize that the narrator of the story is the middle child, Joey. For some reason (revealed in the book), his older sister Jennifer has a bad habit of lying that he helps her to overcome. Circumstances had developed where she was no longer able to avoid spending time with her family, and she quickly recognized that hanging out with her younger brother was an adventure worth taking because he wasn’t so prone to lying and telling the truth seemed to get him out of trouble with their parents. But getting to know him also meant going on spontaneous adventures that kept boredom to a minimum, exploring a strange new house with hidden passageways that led to spectacular places!
There are many other sub-plots in the book that I do not intend to give away quite yet. But I would love to hear from you after you read the book, even if you only get through the first six chapters before finding my gift to you! You will enjoy this book, I am certain of that. And I am intending a series of 2 follow-up books with the amount of material I put together to write this one. Stay tuned.
Thanks, Ron R.
