Lifes Like That

was born when I was having trouble getting clients at the FamilyCounseling Center. That is a fancy name that came from my family counseling career.I thought I needed to get some ads in the local newspaper. That led to my meeting MrRowe Ray, the managing editor of the San Marcos Daily Record. I simply wanted to explorepossibilities but ended with an invitation to write a weekly column for the newspaper.I can honestly say I never broke my word on confidentiality; i.e., everything we talkedabout stayed in the Center, everything that is except the funny things. I was counselingwith a game warden that told me about a lady who was losing a sheep a night to one oldhungry coyote. Whenever the warden came out, she would start feeling sorry for thecoyote and asked the warden not to shoot it. Finally she had five sheep left. She calledthe warden and once again told him she wasnt ready to have him hunt down the coyote.The warden looked at the little flock of sheep and said, Mrs. Jones, whatever you say,but weve only got five more days anyway. As you read this book there will be tears andsunshine. The good news is you dont have to sit down and read it all at once. Life ReallyIs Like That.