Reflections of My Life

 I just came across the Marmalade song from 1969 called Reflections of My Life. I always loved that song.  It makes me reflect upon my own life as I have done in all of my writings.  For every book that I have written, I get this overwhelming feeling that I need to finish it before I die.  As I was working on The Road Onward, this feeling got so strong that I wrote the ending way in advance and told my wife that I had done that, and instructed her that if I am not around to fill in the middle of the book, she should insert in those missing pages, "David has gone to be with the Lord.  

Marmalade's lead singer, Dean Ford, sings, "The world is a bad place, a bad place, a terrible place to live.  Oh, but I don't want to die."   I've been obsessed with death my entire life, and there's a part of me that doesn't want to die, so that I can see our children have families and enjoy our grandchildren.  But, the world keeps getting badder and badder filling one's bladder with deceptive blabber, and I look forward to ridding myself of this broken vessel and being in Heaven with the Lord.  

Technologically Inept

 That Amazon web address that I posted on May 3, 2022 about my first fully fictional book, The Tantalizing Tale of Sassafras Sal, doesn't seem to work on this blog.  The book can be found on Amazon.com.  I have been trying to show the cover on this blog, but so far my efforts have been in vain.  Too bad because it's a really groovy cover thanks to my old friend, Claude.  Alas, this too shall pass. 

Here's a photo of me and most of the family trying to figure out how the camera works on my laptop. According to the Ordnung (Amish rules) my wife and children can be photographed here because they are not posing.  They, like me, do not know that they are being photographed.

The Missing Spoke changes

 There were some editing mistakes when I first published The Missing Spoke many years ago. I made changes to the errors that really bothered me. The books sold at lulu.com should show the changes. The used books sold on Amazon will have the errors; I'm not sure whether the books Amazon listed as new have those errors or not. The errors on the original version may not be a big deal to the reader, but they were to me.  We learn as we grow and we grow as we learn.  Shalom.

https://www.amazon.com/Tantalizing-Tale-Sassafras-Sal/dp/0983652244/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VUDM4IZJ4NAA&keywords=the+tantalizing+tale+of+sassafras+sal&qid=1651603219&s=books&sprefix=the+tant%2Cstripbooks%2C109&sr=1-1

https://www.amazon.com/Tantalizing-Tale-Sassafras-Sal/dp/0983652244/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VUDM4IZJ4NAA&keywords=the+tantalizing+tale+of+sassafras+sal&qid=1651603219&s=books&sprefix=the+tant%2Cstripbooks%2C109&sr=1-1

Two more books

 Hi Folks,

It's been a long time since I posted here.

I finished the 3rd book in my Pilgrimage trilogy.  It is called The Road Onward.  It compares journeys or pilgrimages using John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and my own misadventures.  The first two books in the trilogy were 1) The Missing Spoke, and 2) The Way of the Wind.

I felt like the Lord was tellin' me to finish The Road Onward  because he wanted me to do something else, so it is not as long as I envisioned it.  Perhaps I'll add some meat and potatoes to it in a later edition.

I felt like the Lord Up Above was tellin' me to write a book for young folks.  So I wrote a family-friendly book for all ages entitled The Tantalizing Tale of Sassafras Sal.  I felt the Lord sayin' to me, "Hey, I made everything in one week.  You can make a book in that time."  I finished it in one week, although I have been inspired to add and edit some things.  My family members are reading the proof copies right now, so we'll see what they think of it.  I think that it is the best work I've done because I wasn't doin' it alone.  I felt the Lord's guidance every step along the way.  I am hopin' that it will be available for purchase very soon. The price is $7.77.

Glory Be to Our Father Above,

David Geiger 

Hi,
I contacted Amazon and Lulu and now new copies of The Missing Spoke is back to its original new price of $14.58 on Amazon and it is on Prime which can mean free shipping. This book does have Adult content unlike my latest book, the Way of the Wind, which is family friendly. It is starting to feel more like Spring here; the robins are chirping.

Hi folks,
If you are interested in purchasing my first book, The Missing Spoke, the best place would be to go to Lulu.com because they still have new copies listed at $14.58, which was the price that I set up. I noticed that on Amazon.com, new copies are outrageously listed at $58.50 and $113.95. I do not know why the price is so high there.
David