This morning I was listening to Choose Your Move! and heard a line I wanted to share with you. Then I did the 93-year-old business of getting up out of my chair—and by the time I was standing, the line had gone right out of my head!
Perhaps that is a fitting way to introduce this book. It is filled with a long life’s worth of choices, family stories, useful lessons, and moments when laughter arrives unexpectedly. Hearing it read aloud surprised me. Passages I had underlined came alive, and I found myself enjoying the book as a reader.
Here is a paragraph from the chapter on humor:
“My children think I am funny, although they may be prejudiced. I have never been good at planning jokes. My humor usually appears when I say what I am thinking before I have time to filter it. Sometimes the funniest moments in life are not created deliberately. They simply happen, and we have to notice them.”
Choose Your Move! is a workbook you can write in, draw in, and talk through with someone else. Its T-charts, continuums, and communication ball offer ways to think about money, feelings, relationships, pressure, and the next small step. I wrote it hoping young people could learn these tools earlier than I did, but I believe families of many ages can enjoy using them together.
I am thrilled—and honestly a little surprised—that people are already ordering 100 advance copies. Thank you for welcoming a book that carries so much of my life in its pages. I hope it gives you something to think about, something to try, and plenty of reasons to smile.
Marlene Z Kaiser
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