FAILURE TO REACH MY POTENTIAL REGARDLESS THE ARENA. WHETHER IT’S BEING WITH MY KIDS, LEARNING SOMETHING NEW OR FACING A DAUNTING TASK. MANY TIMES IN FACE OF FEAR I MIGHT BACK AWAY AS I’M AFRAID OF A NEGATIVE OUTCOME, BUT IF I SUMMON UP MY INNER STRENGTH, TRY NOT TO LISTEN TO THE FALSE FEARS AND GIVE THE SITUATION ALL THAT I HAVE, I STAND MY BEST CHANCE AT REACHING MY POTENTIAL. IT’S ONLY IN HINDSIGHT THAT I CAN SEE I DIDN’T REGARD MY POTENTIAL AND THAT’S USUALLY WHEN I’M THE HARDEST ON MYSELF.
What makes you happiest?
A HAPPY OUTCOME, A BABIES’ LAUGHTER, BEING AT PEACE WITH MYSELF AND NATURE AT HER FULLEST AND MOST BEAUTIFUL.
What’s your greatest character strength?
THAT’S A HARD ONE… PERHAPS MY BUILT IN BLINDERS TO OBSTACLES AND THE WILLINGNESS TO TRY AND PERSEVERE REGARDLESS THE ODDS. OPTIMISM.
What’s your weakest character trait?
I CAN BE VERY, VERY HARD ON MYSELF.
Why do you write?
I HAVE NO IDEA! PERHAPS IT’S TO GIVE VOICE TO ALL THOSE SCENARIOS AND IDEAS INSIDE OF ME. WRITING ALSO TAKES ME TO A PLACE NOTHING ELSE CAN. I LOVE THE FEELING OF SITTING DOWN TO WRITE FRO WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AN HOUR WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY FOUR!
Have you always enjoyed writing?
ALWAYS! PERHAPS NOT SO MUCH WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL AND THE RED PENS RAN RAMPANT ACROSS MY PAGE, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, ALWAYS!
What motivates you to write?
MY MUSE. MY MUSE, BOB, WILL COME CALLING AT THE DAMNDEST TIMES AND WHEN HE DOES HE COMES WITH FULL AND POWERFUL MOTIVATION. A HARDER TASK MASTER I’VE YET TO MEET!
What writing are you most proud of?
MY LAST BOOK, “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ICE” http://amzn.to/U5R91x
What are you most proud of in your personal life?
MY SON
What books did you love growing up?
A.A.MILNE, ANYTHING ILLUSTRATED BY N. C. WYETH, DOCTOR DOOLITTLE, MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS, E. B. WHITE
Who is your favorite author?
COLUM MCCANN
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A sailor and his family’s harrowing and inspiring story of their attempt to sail the treacherous Northwest Passage.
Sprague Theobald, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and expert sailor with over 40,000 offshore miles under his belt, always considered the Northwest Passage–the sea route connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific–the ultimate uncharted territory. Since Roald Amundsen completed the first successful crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage in 1906, only twenty-four pleasure craft have followed in his wake. Many more people have gone into space than have traversed the Passage, and a staggering number have died trying. From his home port of Newport, Rhode Island, through the Passage and around Alaska to Seattle, it would be an 8,500-mile trek filled with constant danger from ice, polar bears, and severe weather.
What Theobald couldn’t have known was just how life-changing his journey through the Passage would be. Reuniting his children and stepchildren after a bad divorce more than fifteen years earlier, the family embarks with unanswered questions, untold hurts, and unspoken mistrusts hanging over their heads. Unrelenting cold, hungry polar bears, and a haunting landscape littered with sobering artifacts from the tragic Franklin Expedition of 1845, as well as personality clashes that threaten to tear the crew apart, make The Other Side of the Ice a harrowing story of survival, adventure, and, ultimately, redemption.
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Genre – Memoir, adventure, family, climate
Rating – PG
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Website www.spraguetheobald.com
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