Get Off Your Duff & Strut Your Stuff

25 life lessons to help you lose the blues and "Live a Life that Matters"

Using humor, compassion, and good old fashioned horse sense, this book will lead the reader through the winding morass that traverses the old nitty gritty of life. Learning through life experiences, seeking knowledge and understanding, never making the same mistake twice, and emulating successful people are the keys to success. Among other things, the reader will learn the necessity of educating himself, and that real knowledge isn’t always gleaned from the pages of a book, how to achieve a purpose for living, how to overcome stress, how to let go of past inequities, how to overcome failure, how laughter can be cathartic, how to make friends by oozing charisma, how to avoid loneliness, how physical beauty can be a detriment, a skosh about health, wealth and happiness, a minimal opinion of politics, religion and--best of all-- how to find love and fulfillment in a less than perfect world.

Author’s Biography Don Mosher was born in Fargo, North Dakota on November 24, l935. At the age of five, the family moved to Southern California. He went to elementary school in Lynwood, and junior high and high school in Compton. During his lifetime, he has worked as a paperboy, a yard boy for a plant nursery, a stock clerk, a gas station attendant, refinery worker, gardener, carpet cleaner and firefighter. From October 1958 until October 1960, he served in the US Army, the first six months in basic training in the Second Armored Division (Hell on Wheels) Fort Hood, Texas. The next eighteen months he was stationed in Ulm, Germany as a finance clerk for the fifty-first Infantry, Fourth AD. In his spare time, he traveled intensively in Europe and learned to appreciate good books. He was discharged with the rank of SP-5. In l965, Don joined the Compton Fire Department. He earned an AA Degree in Fire Science from Santa Ana Community College. He spent twenty-six years in the fire service, the last eighteen as a captain. He is a graduate of the Writing the Novel classes taught by Lary Crews, and Writing the Romance Novel taught by Brenda Hiatt Barber. He married a school teacher, Barbara Hensel, at the ripe old age of thirty-three, and they have two grown children, a daughter, Carrie and a son, Greg. Carrie lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and Greg lives in Southern California. Don, and his wife of forty-four years, live in South Orange County, California where they have happily resided for forty-two years.