A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste: A Work in Progress

My book is a Social Satire about how everyone starts out chomping at the bit to use their mind to its utmost (according to that Old School Tried and True Traditional philosophy of "A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.") But reluctantly it slowly dawns on them that what they are really doing is "wasting" their mind anyway. (Because nothing works the way it has been talked up). It's an emotional Snapshot of how it feels when life throws you a curved ball (or a lot of lemons from which you have to learn to make lemonade). When nothing works the way you were once led to believe it would. When all those wonderful "ideas" (on paper anyway) no longer make any sense. As, all throughout the book, the philosophy of Songs is held up as a guiding principle through which to gradually become "unstuck" and once again able to reboot yourself in a new direction. It doesn't offer the reader a roadmap so much as it tries to come up with a more acceptable explanation for why nothing ever works the way it's supposed to in the real world.

And how it feels to spin your wheels when you're up against all those nasty unmentionables centering around social control. On another level, it's much more than a "blame yourself for everything and get out of your own way" guilt trip since it rejects all those simplistic cliché solutions found in Psychology books. Attempting instead to give the reader a much more plausible insight into all those hard to put into words political, social and philosophical "outside forces" that affect why and how things can (and do) go wrong.

I was born in Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on September 15, 1942, but I have lived in Massachusetts all my life.  I graduated from Roxbury Community College with an Associate's Degree in Word Processing and from UMass, Boston with a B.A. degree in English.  I also attended some graduate school at UMass, Boston.

I presently have relatives who live in Alexandria, Virginia.  My cousin, Victoria Bard, is a Military Analyst who is currently employed by the Pentagon.  My uncle, William C. Miller, is a former Hotel Manager and also a Landlord, Notary Public and Licensed Realtor.

I have also published six other books which are on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, EBay, Google, Book Depository and Powell's Books.  The titles are as follows:  It's So Easy To Be Smart With Someone Else's Heart:  The Sound of Your Own Wheels, Twilight Side of the Hill, It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To:  Life's A Horse, Phantom, American Paranoia, Mining the Sounds of Silence:  Therapy in American Life and A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste:  A Work In Progress.