Throwing More Balls at the Jugglers

Some of you may be wondering how our “book club and/or focus discussion group” is going.  Do they like our book(s)?  Does silence on Anne Marie’s part mean that the group hates the book(s)?  Did Anne Marie chicken out and withdraw her materials from the discussion group?

Nope.  This chicken didn’t get out of it.  She actually jumped into the frying pan… so to speak.

The fact of the matter is that we’ve switched direction again.  Ellen DeGeneres hasn't gotten back to us, and we're afraid her schedule is too busy to meet with us weekly, so...

We’re planning to discontinue the book club for a while and focus on something different… something much bigger… something more encompassing…  

We've let Ellen DeGeneres know that we're simply postponing these book club/discussion meetings until she's able to join us.  As soon as her schedule frees up, we're back on it!  I don't know if she's upset with this plan or not.  She hasn't spoken to us since we broke this news to her... but then again, she didn't speak to us before, so it's hard to tell...

Anyway, the plan is to have the little book club/focus discussion group morph into a full-blown “open-to-the-public” support group that Katherine will facilitate.  The subjects and materials will vary but will revolve around the topic of relationships. 

We’ll move the meetings from my house to the library for more space.  The Monday meetings will last approximately 1½ hours.  We’ll only commit ourselves to an 8-week session.  We want to see how all this flows and how much interest and commitment we get from actual participants before going any further with it.


However this plays out, we’ll get exposure; we’ll make connections with the community; we’ll collect material for blog entries, articles, and more books; we’ll meet more people and will be able to exchange ideas with them; we'll make new friends; and we’ll build a foundation for other group meetings, workshops, and presentations.



So, with the various books we have, the blog, the YouTube videos, the reaching out to celebrities, and now this new support group, we’ve got a lot of irons in the fire.  Trying to manage all of this — along with our full-time jobs and family commitments — is going to be quite a juggling act.


As we go along, I’ll let you know how we’re doing…



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