Along the Yellow Brick Road, the blog, is all about following your heart, using your head and having the courage to live the life you were meant to live.
When I first discovered the power of the written word, I was hooked for life. And while there are a number of yellow rick roads a writer can choose to follow, I chose to follow a road where all my writing was going to be about the journey we all take.
In the beginning I didn’t know that the same finger prints that made me the individual I am would also have an imprint on what I would write. Whether it was my true story of traveling the road to discover who my birth parents were or in my children’s fiction (The Adventures of Tom Tinker) where a young tinker follows his road of self discovery, or a young African-American (Freedom’s Light) follows his heart and finds the courage to claim his destiny, or in the two versions of my fictional accounts (Looking for a Rainbow and Dorothy: This Side of the Rainbow) of Dorothy Gale who follows a different yellow brick road in the real world, everything I seem to write is about a journey of self discovery.
In the soon-to-be-released Flying Lesson, I used a historical event, the first airplane flight across the United States by Cal Rodgers in his Vin Fiz (1911), to weave yet another story about a young boy who witnesses the arrival of the Vin Fiz in his hometown of Middletown, New York.
The story is both about how the young Joe DeTura, son of an Italian immigrant, is captivated by aviation and yearns to fly like his hero, Cal Rodgers, but it’s also the story about how Joe discovers who he is and how he learns some real lessons about soaring through life.
Available now as an ebook
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Now Available in print: To get a signed copyof “Flying Lessons” send a check or money order in the amount of $12 ea. (cost of book, shipping and handling) to:
Vincent Begley
19 Able Noble Drive
Chester, New York 10918
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