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Rick Watson 
What do you get when you cross a redneck and an expensive liberal
arts education?
Well, here is how some folks answer this question:
Clarke Stallworth, former writer and editor at the Birmingham Post
Herald:
This sounds high-falutin’, but it’s not. Rick makes pictures,
and I see them clear and plain, and the images bind me to his story.
He achieved the writer’s double whammy -- he made me laugh
out loud and he broke my heart, all in the same column.
Like Homer, like every other born storyteller across the ages, Rick
tells a story. I believe he will become our Bubba With a Heart, our
Compassionate Goodoboy, writing from his Eden in the Woods near Jasper,
Alabama.
Lona Williams, former Lifestyle Editor at the Daily Mountain Eagle
in Jasper, Alabama writes: “Rick Watson and his Life
101 column have added color to the front page of the Lifestyles
section
of our small-town daily paper. Every Sunday readers reach for that
page first because they enjoy a chuckle and feel a connection to
the rural Alabama living that his stories depict.
His writings are natural and relaxed with an emotional depth that
captures the reader and brings him back week after week. We left
the column out one week by mistake and felt the wrath of disappointed
readers who had missed their visit with Rick Watson that Sunday.
This column has a following. It will likely find its spot in any
newspaper with a suburban or rural coverage.
Book Signings
May 4th 2010 6 p.m. tull 7:30 p.m. - North Shelby Library
May 7th 2010 11 a.m. till 5 p.m. Jasper Mall
near Deb's and Company Gift Shop
June 15th 2010 Little Professor in Homewood
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New
Book Now Available 
Rick
Watson's first book is a compilation of columns. Remembering
Big - Ponderings
and Reflections of the
Sloss Holler Scholar now available online
and will soon be available in Books A Million in the Birmingham
area.
Robinson Cleaners and Ken Glover Pharmacy & Gifts in Sumiton/Dora has books
for sale.
The book is also available in Jasper at Deb & Company Gifts. Arrangement
will be finalized with several other vendors in and around Central Alabama.
More details later.
The price is $12 with $2.50 shipping for media mail
anywhere in the U.S.
Click below to buy your copy online.
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Book
Recommendations
Sharon
Gilchrest O’Neill, Ed.S., LMFT is
passionate, if not obsessive about relationships—picture
Lucy sitting behind her 5-cent psychiatric help stand! As
far back as she can remember she was always watching
and analyzing couples to understand what made for a good
and loving marriage, and how and why too often things
went wrong. She
has worked for over twenty-five years helping her clients
to examine assumptions, think creatively, and build upon
strengths. Ultimately
her passion has been about doing the tough and complicated
work of saving marriages and families, one by one, with
compassion and an uncanny ability to listen and inspire
hope in others. Sharon
is the author of A
Short Guide to a Happy Marriage, Sheltering Thoughts
About Loss and Grief, and Lur’ning:
147 Inspiring Thoughts for Learning on the Job. She
lives, writes, and maintains a private practice in northern
Westchester County, New York.
Click below to visit Sharon's website.
http://www.ashortguidetoahappymarriage.com/Home.html
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A Little Good News
The most common comment I get from readers is: "It's refreshing
to get a little good news. We are bombarded daily with crime, scandal,
and graft. Five people dead as a result of a gunman's rampage on
an Illinois campus. The number of American fatalities in Iraq reaches
3960.
What Life 101 provides readers is a breath of fresh air, a chuckle
or a brief trip down memory lane. I get mail weekly from readers
who say how refreshing it is to read a little good news.
"For the first time in my many years of reading the
Daily Mountain Eagle, I immediately pull out the Lifestyle
section of the Sunday
issue. Rick Watson's Life 101 column
fits perfectly with my coffee, getting my day off to an excellent
start. I am especially fond of the humorous touches which sometimes
show up when they are least expected. His writing stirs something
in me that I usually don't feel unless I'm reading a really good
piece of fiction." - Asa Faith Randolph Oakman,
Alabama
You can run four weekly columns free to see if they are a fit
for you publication. If you decide that it is a fit, then we can
start from there. They are $10 each and I can invoice by the month.
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