Member Robert Phillips shares news about his new book.
This photo was taken by Robert's mother in 1948 with one of those old black box Kodaks.
I want to share with everyone how my book came about, Big Boys Don't Cry:
My Audio-Reader story.
About three years ago my wife and I retired, after selling our Bed and Breakfast/Wedding Venue we moved into Lawrence. My world stopped urning and my life turned to depression, anxiety, aggravated by PTSD brought on by my experiences in Vietnam. Nothing to do to occupy my time and get my thoughts going in a positive direction. My VA advisor, Dawn Claus suggested the Audio-Reader Program.
I failed to mention I am legally blind and do not drive any more. This only acerbated my situation. With my wife’s encouragement I started receiving taped books from the Kansas state Audio-Reader in Emporia. I started seeing improvement in my mental health after being able to immerse my mind in these stories and forget my negative thoughts lingering in the depths of my brain. This even started helping me get my thoughts off some of the physical pain, I was experiencing.
It wasn’t long before I had listened to all the books I really liked, that was memoirs of people living in Kansas in rural communities, especially about children growing up on farms. I kept kidding Maggie Wattie at the Emporia Audio-Book Library that I was going to write a book about me growing up near Virgil, Kansas and have it recorded. I am sure she was thinking to herself and maybe telling some of her co-workers, “You won’t believe what this crazy man told me he was going to do.
Now it is three years later and the book is written and that crazy man, now eighty years old has teamed up with the Audio-Reader Program here in Lawrence to launch this book. My contact person here is Martha Kehr. Listener outreach coordinator at Audio-Reader, University of Kansas.
I hope my experience will help other people learn about the Audio-Reader Program and maybe help put their minds in a more favorable state as it did me. Without the help of my wife Beverly, my friends and family, the great medical support both physical and mental provided by the Veteran Administration and the Audio Reader program this story would not have been told. My hat is off to you all.
For those of you who don’t qualify for the Audio-Reader Program this book can be purchased at a number of independent book stores and of course on line from Amazon. Not quite yet. In a few more weeks.
My Audio-Reader story.
About three years ago my wife and I retired, after selling our Bed and Breakfast/Wedding Venue we moved into Lawrence. My world stopped urning and my life turned to depression, anxiety, aggravated by PTSD brought on by my experiences in Vietnam. Nothing to do to occupy my time and get my thoughts going in a positive direction. My VA advisor, Dawn Claus suggested the Audio-Reader Program.
I failed to mention I am legally blind and do not drive any more. This only acerbated my situation. With my wife’s encouragement I started receiving taped books from the Kansas state Audio-Reader in Emporia. I started seeing improvement in my mental health after being able to immerse my mind in these stories and forget my negative thoughts lingering in the depths of my brain. This even started helping me get my thoughts off some of the physical pain, I was experiencing.
It wasn’t long before I had listened to all the books I really liked, that was memoirs of people living in Kansas in rural communities, especially about children growing up on farms. I kept kidding Maggie Wattie at the Emporia Audio-Book Library that I was going to write a book about me growing up near Virgil, Kansas and have it recorded. I am sure she was thinking to herself and maybe telling some of her co-workers, “You won’t believe what this crazy man told me he was going to do.
Now it is three years later and the book is written and that crazy man, now eighty years old has teamed up with the Audio-Reader Program here in Lawrence to launch this book. My contact person here is Martha Kehr. Listener outreach coordinator at Audio-Reader, University of Kansas.
I hope my experience will help other people learn about the Audio-Reader Program and maybe help put their minds in a more favorable state as it did me. Without the help of my wife Beverly, my friends and family, the great medical support both physical and mental provided by the Veteran Administration and the Audio Reader program this story would not have been told. My hat is off to you all.
For those of you who don’t qualify for the Audio-Reader Program this book can be purchased at a number of independent book stores and of course on line from Amazon. Not quite yet. In a few more weeks.
Robert W Phillips, Rp
Published Author
"Big Boys Don't Cry"
www.robertwphillips.com
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"Big Boys Don't Cry"
www.robertwphillips.com
Volunteer, Audio-Reader, KU
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