So, Monday, I am being interviewed on Bookmark Radio!  Yeah, Monday, April 30, 2012 at 4 p.m. mountain. I get to talk about me, my book, some more about me, and if you haven’t had enough, a little bit more of me.  Just click on the link above.  It’s an internet radio program, which is awesome!

In a way, given my nature, this is all rather unfortunate.  I mean, I’m naturally self-aborbed.  I know, real freakin’ shocker there.  Yes, I’m a solipsist.  Love that word.  But being self-centered has brought me lots of sorrow.

But in a sense, this is the normal, human condition.   Even the caretaker types have their own brand of self-centeredness.  It’s call co-dependence.  “I don’t want to think about me, so I’ll think about you, but it’s really about me.”

I believe that the natural progression in my life and the lives of the monkeys around me is to move from selfish desire to selfless service.  The older I get, the less I care about my own, stupid drama, and the more interested I am in the stupid drama of others.

But here I am, promoting myself, my book, me.  It can be a hard, lonely thing.

Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled to be interviewed, at a real radio station, the big leagues, taking internet radio by storm, but still, really, me talking about me?  For an extended amount of time?  At least I’ve had practice.

One thing I’m learning, and believe me, it’s not been an easy lesson, is that The Never Prayer is less about me, and more about the universal power that story has in the lives of the people in the world.  If one person is moved, inspired, shaken by my book, doesn’t that justify the time and effort and energy I spent writing and selling it?

The politically correct answer is yes, yes it does.  I’m not so sure.  If I’m sacrificing time with my children and my wife, if other parts of my life are suffering, if I’m hurting others to write, what is the real good of that one person being affected by my writing?  I don’t know.  I try and juggle it all.  Lord, I do try.

Only time will tell if my work has been worth it.  So we’ll talk about that, good and evil, love and desire, demons and angels, on Monday, April 30, at 4 p.m. mountain.  Let the drama continue!