It does sound like a terrific book. Apparently, you ran out of the 100...then 200...free copies within about 30 minutes of when my e-mail program says your BookNote arrived, and about an hour before I read it. I'm a BRB, but I have another book still to be reviewed, so that avenue is out.

Okay, I clicked on the link to download the .pdf of Chapter 1. After about four tries, I gave up; the link didn't go anywhere. Ironically, the link to "buy the actual book" works just fine! :o) That, however, will have to wait.

What I will do, though, is share the post on FaceBook. God bless!

Michael, I agree with you, although I don't typically use a signature block when e-mailing my family or others who know me well.

I'm a former college-level English teacher. That short-lived career followed more than 20 years in office work--receptionist to executive secretary, legal secretary, some personnel, some purchasing, and a little bookkeeping. I notice typo's, wrong words, poor punctuation (or none!), and all of the ills that seem to have taken over our fascinating language.

But none of them irk me as much as those I find--too late--in my own writing! (Would you believe I once re-read a paper written in the final semester of my Master's program and saw where I had written, "I would of..." instead of "I would have..."??) And yet, many of my graduate classmates routinely dropped all such constraints, in their e-mails!

But brevity is not my strong point, which I think you have figured out. :o) So I'm going, now!

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Michael, I'm not sure how long you've been blogging. I got curious about the total number of comments on my blog, and now I'm really down! I've been blogging for a little over four years, and I'm not even going to tell you how few comments I have to show for it! I read a few other blogs where some discussions develop and that just hasn't happened on mine. Granted, I've stayed away from politics (a policy that I explained in my initial blog post), which would no doubt get more comments.

As much as anything, though, I probably need a new family and new friends. I get more comments on my blog posts by e-mail than I do on my blog. :o(