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big news.

i have something really important i wanted to share. it's really big. like big big (i know i am so dramatic, but life would be so boring if i wasn't). so... drum roll please.... i am writing a book. well, it's pretty much already written. but over the weekend i had a decision to make with myself, to move forward and keep working towards it, or don't. i am choosing the first. i am choosing happiness. i am choosing to write this book i have always wanted to write. it may be just for me and my family one day, or who knows, maybe it will be published? it doesn't matter as long as i finish it for me. which i will.... one day. so, here's the story. when my dad died a few years ago, i went back through all my old love letters he had written, all the emails i saved from him, everything. as it turns out... not only did he tell me "life lessons" daily, but he wrote them too! some of the emails even say "life lesson #545234" or what have you. and then give me great advice, or a funny story and with that story what i should get out of it, etc. etc. i have 50 + chapters (or topics if you will) in itself already. i am just SO excited!! you know when you realize you have a purpose in this world? i mean... obviously, everyone has a purpose in some way, shape, or form. but when you know you were meant to do something? for me, i know it was to write this book. it's been on my bucket list for quite some time. but what better way to capture my father then through his own words and stories? it will make you laugh, it will make you cry... but at the end of the day it will make you be better. do better. it will make you live the life you were destined to live. i am just so happy i can't stand it. the chapters have been flowing out of me and i can't keep up with it all. i am thrilled to have decided to move forward with this "project" of mine. it could take a year, 5 years, 25 years. it doesn't matter. you know why? because there's no rush. i might have questions for you all along the way... and/or ideas to bounce off of you all... but first things first... i think i got my book title down.....

"Lessons from my (Southern) Father"

pretty great right?

i just can't wait for you to experience my dad like i did. a. true. great.