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having an anxiety attack lads #milliemoments

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sorry. had a #milliemoment. songs from sylvis millie playlist came up on spotify

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No time to write my blog while I’m out creating new adventures for my blog. Living the #milliemoments of my life. 

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Feeling nostalgic about my love for bikes while I’m away on a motorcycle tour. 

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Week of September 20th, 2017 Blog

My wife Kim and I love to travel.  My years of getting dragged around the world by my mother, Millie, started this trend.  In my youth I lived in Venezuela, Los Angeles, Upstate New York, Wisconsin, Maine, Costa Rica, Rome and all around New York City.  We also traveled all over as Millie did her great work.  As an adult, my work took me to almost every corner of the earth from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe.  The only continent I've not seen is Antarctica.

As much as we love Staten Island, we also love to travel throughout the year. So far this year we have spent time in the Utah Canyons, in the Normandy Region of France, are just back from Iceland and the Baltics (Sweden, Finland, Russia, Eastonia, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Norway), and are planning a trip later in the year to Istanbul and Greece (a motorcycle ride through the Peloponnesos and Corfu).  We work hard to keep our travel agenda full.

Millie would be proud that her son has grown into a world traveler, just like her.  I'm not sure I have the streak for adventure that she had, but I try to make up for on my motorcycle.

What's on tap for next year?  I have a ride through Copper Canyon in Mexico.  And then Kim and I are going with our neighbors Gary Reichard and Oswaldo Pena up to Alaska to sail the inner passage and see the glaciers.  And that's just for starters...

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Week of August 15th Blog:

Mater Gladiatrix is an impassioned story by a loving son about his accomplished single-parent mother.  I chose to self-publish this even though I am a previously published author.  I couldn't imagine asking publishers to consider publishing a book about my mommy. But that was my hang-up.  I truly believe her life and story is worthy of a broadly-read book.  I am committed to getting her story broadcast as broadly as possible.  This has everything to do with my pride about her life and accomplishments, but it is actually much more than that.  Whether as an innate building block of my character or learned behavior from my years of traipsing around the world behind her, I believe my character has been forged in her image.  I live my life with the carpe diem philosophy she espoused.  I live my life with no holds barred and without fear. I believe in going for the gusto in all things.

I have been asked several times what I think my mother would think of the book or of my having written it.  To begin with, I came of age in grade school while my mother was getting her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.  She was 45 years old with three kids, no husband and a $3,000 per year fellowship on which to live.  To earn that fellowship she taught a course for incoming freshmen on how to study. Her attention to my writing assignments in grade school were daunting.  She would mark up my essays over and over again, forcing me to gain increasing clarity of expression.  The one thing she always allowed me was to express my sense of humor in my writing since she herself enjoyed it and she knew me well enough to know it was who I was. So my mother would begin by correcting any and all typos and syntax errors she found in the book.  But I think she would enjoy the humor, generally taken at the expense of my father, sisters or myself.

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Author Richard A. Marin during the writing process of #matergladiatrix 

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