My father who is 101 years old has so many stories to tell from the Great Depression to being on a destroyer that was hit by a kamikaze in WW2 and having to abandon ship in the middle of the ocean .Many more interesting events to numerous to mention

First of all my story of surviving AML which is a killer The way it put my life on hold for 5 years.

Second story would be the birth and life of my daughter born 2 lbs, 5 ounces with cerebral palsy.

Fostering Autistic, dually diagnosed children. And the other, raising children of divorce with their gay father—(How to help children stand up to religious bullies)

I guess emotional health, nutrition, art. Maybe a few others. I wonder if something like this could be set up here?

The first chapter would be my 4 years in the military. It was an unbelievable joke from day one. And the joke is still with me today. When some fool president says a war will be cheap he needs his head examined. Thousands of GI's are still being paid (by you taxpayers) for the Viet Nam fiasco (to name one).

The next chapter would be my 15 years in Europe. It gave me an insight to people and cultures that was invaluable.

I want to live at that library. I have taught security/body guard work, emphasizing on minimizing a violent outcome. My steel work, I suppose. I have had a few apprentices. But I learn as much from who I am teaching as they learn from me, so it is more symbiotic than teaching.

Love it.

You're so heavy, as the beatles would say.
That is really interesting.

Child rearing and managing a family.

The years I spent as an adrenaline junkie pursuing activities and jobs that were high risk. And the yrs I spent raising my daughter to try to help her be a more balanced individual, and then my time as an athlete, albeit a mediocre one ,but trained like a mad man,lol

I don't think I have any experiences that are insightful enough or interesting enough to impart wisdom or entertainment. I think I'd be a book that just lists other, more interesting books (people) than me with better life lessons.

nice question

• fibromyalgia, debilitating chronic pain, disability, invisible illness/disability

• being disbelieved and shamed as a lazy, lying malinger because no one who could help you believes you're sick and thinks you're just faking it for attention and a free ride; being a living violation of people's expectations and how they treat you for it

• guilt, shame, hopelessness, attempted suicide; depression; crippling social anxiety

• sincerely, earnestly trying to love humankind despite having been profoundly pooped upon by it for most of your life

(file under "fiction", or it'll be pulled from the shelf)

Professional: The process of current infrastructure management in the United States: highways, transportation facilities, water and waste water treatment facilities, utilities, with side notes on facility assessment.

Just for fun: Stories and anecdotes related to DC and University of Virginia sports teams over the last 30 years or so.

I hate to say but on relations wise and since my children are already adult... I don't need help. I will be looking for the person that can talk about money... I never cared for money, never put much value on money, I waste and throw away money when I a not observed by a witness to my life. I don't touch or pilfer my companion, just mine. It just never been to much use to me except to misuse in other people's sense. Never envied... it just alien to me despite the society we live in is so against my tendency. So I can live with very little and give it away to my kids instead of saving it. The "what is money and what to do with it" will be the person I will request.

I would be the fundamentals of common sense.

Well instantly I call this co-parenting. ...at least children are the books parents mutually learn and teach from/to......I'm not likely to get qualified as a monk or guru stocked in a religious library but this www.agnostic.com is sorta like letting me offer and glean here....thankyou for the photo caption

What a fascinating concept. I don't think I would be open to sharing though. I have knowledge I could pass on, but life experiences as lessons to others, no.

Isn't this place called Starbuck's?

I have anecdotes I tell; some funny, some involving bizarre coincidences, I don't delve into tragic ones b/c who wants to be depressing?
But I don't see how they would be educational or enlightening. Just entertaining.

I learned a lot from years on the road as a journeyman carpenter/climber, but I see no way to share that without going oneself.

So throw me in the section labelled frivolous, with the tabloids.

1. Self improvement
2. Relationships