Life around the edges - Paperback

by Ted Dreisinger (Author)

Every life has its share of big events that help shape and define it. But whether viewed as a circle filled with family and friends, careers and conflicts, joys and sorrows, or is simply seen as a straight line stretching from childhood to old age, there is much in life that takes place along the way and around the edges. When a life is described, the focus is typically on the main events...the grand achievements, the joyous occasions, the bitter heartaches...but it's often the little things in a life that provide real substance and meaning. Like mortar between bricks, it's the stuff around the edges that holds everything together and gives it shape. 'life around the edges, ' draws attention to the fact that many of the most meaningful moments in any life take place off to the side, quietly and without much fan fare. Dreisinger conveys the pleasure that can be found in the simplest of things, like a morning cup of coffee with your favorite cat nearby, while at the same time revealing the value there is in living a life that fully embraces everything from the main events to those minor happenstances that occur around the edges.

Author Biography

Ted Dreisinger was born in Toronto, Canada and has lived the vast majority of his life in the United States. The son of a Baptist minister, he spent his early years living in a number of different places, the longest of which was Fairmont, West Virginia where he graduated from high school and eventually finished college. He went on to graduate school in Wisconsin and Missouri where he completed a PhD in 1974. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War where he learned a number of life lessons. He taught exercise science at the university level, has published clinical papers professionally, and has spoken both in the U.S. and overseas for several years in the area of chronic back and neck pain. It is the traveling from which he draws many of his life observations. His personal interests are in philosophy and spiritual thought - Western and Eastern. This book is his second following: life in small bites - moments in time published in 2014. He lives with his wife Molly in Tucson, Arizona.