Everyone has those big goals they want to achieve in life, like buying a home, starting a business or, well, learning how to ride a motorcycle. For most people, these dreams exist in perpetuity in a cozy little part of the brain saved for daydreaming when reality becomes a drag; they serve a real purpose there, but what most people don’t realize is how much life can change for the better when you finally muster the courage to “push comfortable” and pursue a dream.
My best friend Elizabeth Fournier always wanted to write a book, and I’m happy to say that it was just recently published. Why readers of this blog might find it interesting is that while Elizabeth was writing it, I was also pursuing my own dream of learning how to ride a motorcycle, and she weaved in a story line about her main character, herself, learning how to ride, including a visit to Infineon Raceway and a run-in with a sexy pair of Alpinestars Cat Pants.
It’s called All Men are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates. In hot pursuit of love, another dream of hers finally realized, she armed herself with a ten point list of dating criteria and had everyone and anyone set her up on blind dates. The book is an expansion of emails she wrote to me, her father, and other friends as she hilariously experiences each one and determines whether or not each suitor will move on to the coveted second date.
She’s a beautiful, blonde dynamo who’s the kind of person who touches your life in lasting ways. She’s also a funeral director, hence the title of the book. Her mother died when she was young, and she ended up continually finding herself in places of consoling others through traumatic life events; naturally it was something to make a career out of. Despite her seemingly dour profession, her book is upbeat, laugh-out-loud funny, and inspiring, although towards the end of the book she writes that she decides to ditch motorcycling after seeing yet another RIP thread on the Bay Area Riders Forum, a popular northern California motorcycling forum. As we know, the real life motorcycling, thirtysomething gal went on to pursue her own dream: racing!
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