Life’s Like That was born when I was having trouble getting clients at the Family
Counseling Center. That is a fancy name that came from my family counseling career.
I thought I needed to get some ads in the local newspaper. That led to my meeting Mr
Rowe Ray, the managing editor of the San Marcos Daily Record. I simply wanted to explore
possibilities but ended with an invitation to write a weekly column for the newspaper.
I can honestly say I never broke my word on confidentiality; i.e., everything we talked
about stayed in the Center, everything that is except the funny things. I was counseling
with a game warden that told me about a lady who was losing a sheep a night to one old
hungry coyote. Whenever the warden came out, she would start feeling sorry for the
coyote and asked the warden not to shoot it. Finally she had five sheep left. She called
the warden and once again told him she wasn’t ready to have him hunt down the coyote.
The warden looked at the little flock of sheep and said, “Mrs. Jones, whatever you say,
but we’ve only got five more days anyway.” As you read this book there will be tears and
sunshine. The good news is you don’t have to sit down and read it all at once. Life Really
Is Like That.
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