As I said in my last post, I have decided to read a few books this year.  I finished “The Shack”, and I also finished “The Last Lecture” a couple of weeks ago.  I just haven’t had the time to sit and post about it. 

What interested me in this story was the fact that my step-father passed away from the same type of cancer that Randy Pausch passed away from last year.  I was getting the mail ready to go to the street and I noticed a cover of a magazine with Prof. Pausch on it, so I jotted down his name and looked it up when I got home. 

This a really touching read……There are a lot of touching stories, stories of success, and great little quotes as well.  One that really stuck with me was (paraphrase) “If your screwing up and noone tells you about it, they have given up on you”.  Randy Pausch seemed like such an inspiring guy and was willing to go out on a limb for his students and never let a “brickwall” stop him from trying to achieve his goals in life. 

If you get a chance, check this book out and watch the actual last lecture that he gave a Carnigie Mellon.  I’m glad I read the book first and held off watching the video.  It really adds to the video if you know all that was going on with him mentally and physically.  You can easily find the video on You Tube by searching the Last Lecture.

I have now started on “The Innocent Man” by John Grisham.  This one will probably take me a little longer to read…..it is about double the size of the other two.  Anyway…..Haylee and Ericcia are wonderful.   Haylee is running around the house taking control of everything.  Nothing can be “in”……..it has to be “out”………she may not play with it, but it has to be “out”.