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  Chapter 1 You Can’t Ride a Bicycle on a Dirt Road   How many people ever get the opportunity to try to ride a bicycle on a dirt road? My guess is not many. Let me tell you, it’s more effort than result. The tires bog down in the loose sandy ruts and if you do get going a bit, you probably won’t stay upright for very long. The front wheel sinks into the soft sand in places and won’t turn. It becomes impossible to pedal and what happens is you get off the bike and push it more often than ride it. The bike was there to take away the burden of walking, and make the trip faster by covering more ground quicker. The result is that you ended up pushing the bike through the soft sand and walking anyway, doubling your workload. How often do we try to do things that just don’t fit with who we are? Forcing situations that don’t feel normal usually have bad results. Was the bike the proper tool for this job? Was it the best choice? Apparently not, since all I did was to

Perdition Road Woody Boswell Forward Chapter 1 - You Can’t Ride a Bicycle on a Dirt Road Chapter 2- I was Better but I got Over it Chapter 3- Shiver Me Timbers to a Watery Grave Chapter 4- No Tell Motel Chapter 5-   This  Isn't  the End of the World, but you can see it from Here Chapter 6- It’s as cold as a Mother-In-Law’s Kiss in Here Chapter 7- There’s more than One Way to Skin a Cat besides Cutting of his Tail Chapter 8- Is that Daylight, or the Train? Chapter 9- If Brains were Dynamite that Boy  Couldn't  Blow his Nose Chapter 10- He’s got more Problems than Carter’s got Liver Pills. Forward      I remember as a child, sitting on the front porch of my mother’s home with my sister on Sunday afternoons waiting for our father to pick us up for our weekly visitation with him. I was 8 and she was 6 when my parents divorced. We wore our school clothes usually, which were a bit nicer pants than jeans and a pullover sh