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ISBN-10: 1491061529
ISBN-13: 9781491061527
Edition: N/A
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Good day,I am the author of my memoir; The Burnt Pancake and I am Jeff L. Jolin.The Burnt Pancake is about being the oldest child-product from a not-so-typical Iowa 1950's Baby-Boomer family.The Burnt Pancake represents that after you burn the first one, the others usually turn out fine.Jeffrey is "the first Burnt Pancake" of his family; the rebellious one, who "enlightens" his family, friends and many loves over the decades with his interesting personality-traits.Many first-born Boomers never quite grow up, or fit in with the mainstream. Jeffrey Lee is an amusingly wild, dysfunctional character, yet always entertaining, including his unique philosophies and perspectives of "living 2-lives… large," of pre and post cancer. A divorced and abandoned single dad who raised 2 daughters alone while balancing different careers, (including the "surprise," chauffeuring of U2's first Denver concert at Red Rocks.) This son-one, inherited all the health problems of his parent's "litter" of four, and includes cancer "survivor's tips". A funny, enlightening story about an ordinary guy living an extraordinary life; A life of rewards and risks, including a harrowing near-death experience piloting a small plane with mechanical failure and 3 terrified souls aboard one dark night in the Rocky Mountains.What this book does for readers, is to illustrate a "collage" of expressions of humor, encouragement, hope and love, for all of the "Burnt Pancake" people out there; like the "black sheep" kind that usually do not fit into a "vanilla" variety, but more "Neapolitan"types. This book possesses my perception of interesting stories packed into 58 "short," yet long years. "Two lives lived," seems like an appropriate metaphor for many like me, at the middle stage of life; the notion of a premature passing before attaining old age seems preposterous. Indestructible comes to mind; like the same feeling that never left my teen years. The, "it can't happen to me," syndrome. Wondering if this was brought on by "over-extending" gregarious life-experiences. I share moments of colorful, humorous, diverse and intriguing relations, with family, friends, and loves (including 4 marriages,) that taught me worldly things about life, love and humanity; both good and bad. As I reminisce in these writings, I sometimes have regrets, but if I had favored a more humble existence, like sticking with one marriage, furthering my education, being less careless, or having a more normal awareness in general, I might have had that plain-vanilla experience, (and a very boring manuscript.) As George Bernard Shaw once said, "Youth is wasted on the young."I am still a youth.As I look back, I may have simply over-experimented and over-estimated my invincibility, yet managed to achieve and maintain a sense of balance all at the same time. I came to a very stark mortality reality after the discovery of my throat cancer, "Is this cancer, going to be my wrap party?" I had a "50% rule-metaphor" that I sometimes used. It's a rule synonymous with Murphy's Law, that when certain "critical" events occur in life, chances are that the 50% pendulum more often than not favors Murphy, but with cancer, I learned to expect and attract only the good 50%, and survive that cancer experience through deep meditation and a spiritual faith, (and applied medicine of course.) After surviving cancer, I embrace ALL of my experiences even more. Whether triumphs or tribulations, one must try to learn something from all of experiences, past and present. Dr. Roger Teel at Mile High Church once said to me, that I am not my illness, but rather, "a condition that my body is experiencing." My 50% rule cancer challenge did not go against me. I will never use that 50% rule, ever!This book will give cancer survivors (especially throat cancer,) some tools to meet and beat the condition their body is experiencing."Go, and Indulge in the significance and magnificence of real life!"