The areas which you seem to have the more bookworthy insight (to me) are: the Diabetes book, the Other Woman Book, the Dwarfism Book, and the Single Motherhood Book.

Any of those would fit neatly with your save-the-worldism, don't you think?

I spent all last week thinking about life in six word sentences. It was likely a helpful editing exercise if nothing else.

So far I've really been enjoying #10.

:o)

think about what you'd like to get out of the book-writing experience. the writing will eat up a chunk of your life, so it helps to keep your goal in mind - what do you want as the outcome? to help people? to have a (larger) audience? to have some fun? to make sense of your experiences? your answer should help narrow down your choices. I love your writing - I'd be sure to read whatever you wrote, but I think the diabetes or dwarfism books would be the ones most likely to help shape readers' mindsets, and would maybe be the ones most satisfying for you to write. my two cents!

Wow. Reading your blog is sort of looking in a weird alternate reality version of my life. I'm often told by friends/family to write a book and I keep responding the only thing I could write would be a highly unlikely series of difficult events in a completely unbelievable soap opera. You know, the eating disorder, misdiagnosed illness for 10 years, infertility, terribly ill baby #1 with an undiagnosable growth disorder and extremely rare tumour requiring terrifying surgery and then rehab problems, baby #2 with idiopathic epilipsy, major house fire, existential angst book. Where would I begin? How would I end it? Maybe with 'more to come?'

Good for you for editing yours down to 6 words. Maybe that's what I need to do?

Isabel, I often refer to my life as a soap opera too, so I know what you mean. Though good grief, you're due for a break.

Mary, thanks. :)

I vote for #10, too. (even though I don't comment nearly often enough, you're on my top 10 each and every day.)

I may have to steal this and make it a new meme. ;)

I'm partial to #10, too. You could always make it a fictionalized account, to keep Getting a Divorce for Legally-Nameless Reasons from getting in the way of a good story.

Thanks Andrea. I'm trying to believe that this will be our year. Right now we've just started (yesterday, to be exact) to wean Evie off of her anti-seizure meds. Exciting, but a little terrifying. You certainly have been through your fair share. I've got to say, for my part, I'm ok with the stuff I have to go through. It's the stuff that my kids have to go through that makes me crazy. That and people with stupid platitudes and attitudes about what it will/won't mean to Zack to be small. Mind you, I'm not a very patient person!

"My entire life is statistically improbable" is brilliant. I'd be interested to have a link to your new blog, if you're willing to share.