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    Never Say Die: True Life Stories
    Never Say Die: True Life Stories
    Never Say Die: True Life Stories
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    Never Say Die: True Life Stories

    By Jim Haverlock

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    Never Say Die - Life is like a basketball match, sometimes very rough especially when one loses while at other times, exhilarating. But all in all, I think how one plays the game determines the outcome whether successful overall or not. What follows is my life laid out in a series of short stories. The process of writing this naturally called for a "life review" Before you get into the fruits of my life, let me whet your appetite with a life review I did of a different sort:

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Haverlock
    Release dateOct 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311309327
    Never Say Die: True Life Stories
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    Jim Haverlock

    Join me on this journey and discover thereby the possibilities that announce themselves to us all on a daily basis. Witness life through the eyes of one seeking a 'healing', a 'miracle', while learning what life truly is about; a quest for the meaning of life that for this writer includes the motive for hammering out this tome; helping but not judging others, and loving all of creation.Diagnosed with progressive multiple sclerosis - given 3 years to live, 21 years later still kickin' - still working, albeit from a wheelchair and work now is computer & Internet - helping others through Compassion-care.org - a 501C-3 that I formed and am director. Also run an online store www.14ushop.com and do website development, seo, video production marketing, bookkeeping - all from home. Raised 9 children that are adults, married with families of their own. Remarried with 2 additional children, however we are living half a world apart due to the fact we have been unable to obtain visas for them to the USA.I am happy, positive and love God as the center of my life but do not agree with church hierarchy or what they indoctrinate people with, although they do much good.

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      Book preview

      Never Say Die - Jim Haverlock

      Never Say Die

      By Jim Haverlock

      Copyright 2015 Jim Haverlock

      All rights reserved

      Published by Jim Haverlock at Smashwords

      Distributed by Smashwords

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      2015 – SHORT STORIES

      SHORT STORIES

      AUTHOR: Jim Haverlock

      Editor: Anthony G. Payne

      SHORT CHAPTERS

      Introduction

      Earliest Memory

      First Oil Painting

      My Hero

      First Job

      First Grade / School

      First Love

      First Dental Experience

      Seven Come Thirteen

      Seminarium, Sacerdotes & Fratres

      1st Year Home from Seminary

      Junior Year High School

      Senior Year High School

      College

      Principals to Live By

      End

      Introduction

      Life is like a basketball match, sometimes very rough especially when one loses while at other times, exhilarating. But all in all, I think how one plays the game determines the outcome whether successful overall or not.

      What follows is my life laid out in a series of short stories. The process of writing this naturally called for a life review Before you get into the fruits of my life, let me whet your appetite with a life review I did of a different sort:

      It happened early on in my life when the Grim Reaper tapped on my shoulder, at the tender age of 20, too young to die, yet friends of mine had died at age 18 and were sorely missed. My trip to the precipice came while working with bees. Actually I had worked with bees for many years without incident and then spent nearly two years away from my winged friends while toiling as an accountant for a large construction firm. Then, I returned to the world of apiaries and, lo and behold, on my very first day in a bee yard several honey bees became protective of their honey and upped and decided I was a threat, then proceeded to sting me. They gave their lives to protect their hive family.

      Minutes later my body began feeling very odd and then nausea set in. I headed over to my boss who was working a short distance away and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned, took one look at me, and panic spread across his face. He barked out, Get in the truck now! which I did, and off we went to town like a race car at the Grand Prix. As we sped along he would glance over at me and say, My God, you are turning blue, hang in there. At one point I became totally at peace, and found I could barely breathe as my throat was swollen nearly shut. It was then all the years I'd lived to that point-in-time passed before me like a movie, in Technicolor no less! I had heard it said that many dying folks experience this, and now I was.

      The next thing I knew we were at a local hospital. Soon I was being hooked up to various IVs and injected with bee anti-venom, while nurses reassured me that I would be okay. They were, obviously, right on the money, as I survived to tell the tale and those in this collection. Truth be told though, I would have three more NDE’s (near death experiences) in the years to come.

      The short stories that follow convey mostly the good times I knew during my early years. Some are funny, others downright hilarious. Enjoy the ride, because I sure did!

      EARLIEST MEMORY

      What is the earliest memory that you have?

      Psych Central states:

      Few adults can remember anything that happened to them before the age of three (3). Now a new study has documented that it’s about age 7 when our earliest memories begin to fade, a phenomenon known as childhood amnesia.

      Baby Center’s Judith Hudson writes:

      Even in his first two months, your baby can recognize familiar faces and voices, especially those he sees every day. Newborns can recognize their mothers' voice at birth, and breast fed babies can recognize their mother's smell after one week. This kind of recognition is the first indication of memory, although it's very different from remembering the details of specific episodes.

      Your baby's recognition memory — the ability to identify people and objects he has seen before after a delay or time apart — will increase dramatically during his first year. Experiments have shown that at 3 months, babies can remember new pictures or toys shown to them one to six days previously.

      By the time he's 9 months old, your baby will be able to remember more specific information, such as where his toys are in your house. He'll also be able to imitate actions he's seen as long as a week before. These skills indicate that babies this age have recall memory — the ability to remember some details of a specific experience for a short amount of time — though they still don't remember most of their experiences.

      Long-lasting conscious memory of specific events won't develop until your baby is between 14 and 18 months old.

      These quotes provide a brief introduction to the research that exists concerning a baby’s first memories, something I've interjected as a backdrop to help explain my very first memory. Consider this a short story or bit of reminiscing.

      The first time I first shared my earliest memory with my parents, they found it hard to believe I was able to recall an event from my infancy and later told visiting relatives that what I recalled had never ever brought up since it happened.

      At one point my folks had relatives over for a visit and served them some little snacks and then began touching on various topics of conversation. Mostly about farming and ranching as that is

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