Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

Parenting & Relationships

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Synopsis

Symbolizing a Journey ─ Learning Lessons ─ Letting Go ─ and Gaining Insight . . . tools that lead to relationships. Relationships are formed with people, alcohol, animals, battlefields, diseases, drugs, environments, and even our emotions. Whether toxic or nontoxic they’re an integral part of daily living. Follow Author Nina Norstrom through the journey as she peels off those toxic relationships. The story takes you through the experiences of grief, pain, trauma, and forgiveness. The story weaves lies with love, betrayal with deception and drama with murder. As the shoe prints are molded in and out of a variety of unhealthy relationships, they’ll leave behind a blazing trail of lessons. Teaching an ultimate lesson for the meaning of relationships, that builds honesty and compassion. The story in its raw image projects a remarkable voice to the heroic fight and bravery gained when striking back to wipe out the toxicity of deadly relationships. Through its reading, you will discover the importance that life brings many challenges, and that each challenge provides lessons to be learned. Inside the Excerpts, are sneak previews of what's bubbling: Preorders are available for April 5, 2016 DETAILS ABOUT THE JOURNEY Why is the topic so important? What we do in our everyday experiences brings about important life lessons. We’re living inside the topic each day we inhale anew breathe. In These days and times, toxicity has settled in the environment. Just think about it: every day we wake up we’re on the battlefield fighting a war. And just feeling where there’s: good against evil; sons against fathers; daughters against mothers; nations against nations; drugs against diseases; and the list goes on and on.

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Author Biography

As an award-winning author, Not a Blueprint: It’s the Shoe Prints that Matter is a @bookexcellence Award Finalist! Check it out here: www.bookexcellenceawards.com Over three decades, Norstrom has unmasked the levels of relationships: pain; abuse; emotions, diseases; work environments; trauma; and its poison of unforgiveness. In the artistic world, it is those literary creations that demonstrate a measure of personal growth that magnifies those hurdles conquered - from darkness to survival, even her release from incarceration. While growing and blossoming, she has maintained a healthier lifestyle . . . staying free of unhealthy relationships. Through her experiences, Norstrom has encountered a complete metamorphosis ─ releasing one identity for another. Living inside this transitional lifestyle she states, “I see myself as that long-blooming, rich flower waiting to attract those butterflies. It is there, I’ve come full circle having realized the dangerous effects of toxicity."

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Author Insight

Moms We Love You

I think about mom a lot. Even though she is enjoying a new life with her angel friends and dearly departed family members, I’d love to see her smiling face once more. There is much I have to share. You know that sharing as those “mother-daughter” talks. A heck of a lot has happened since we last seen one another. I’m sure she would be proud of me. I’ve come a long way and achieved many accomplishments. For one, I’m an author now. That’s she’d embrace. Behind those storybook pages, I’ve revealed some family secrets. It’s been stated, “What goes on in the house, stays in the house.” Shame, shame on me; perhaps, mom wouldn’t be a happy camper - about that one! I’m smiling ‘cause I know she wouldn’t. Wish I could have done more to express how much I loved her. Sunday, May 10th is Mother’s Day. Mom, I love you and Happy Mothers’ Day to you. And those moms around the globe!

Book Excerpt

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

My mother, Esther Lee, was a retired coach cleaner for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Chicago. She was a Southern woman who spoke in a soft, passive tone. Mom was somewhat submissive in her marital relationship. Esther Lee, in her stockinged feet, stood five foot seven; her lower legs were curvy and hairy. The hair on her head was charcoal black, real wavy, thick, and hung down her back. It was always parted down the middle, combed to the back, and twisted into a bun roll. Sometimes she’d use just a little water to keep the edges slick.

It was against Mom’s religion to wear pants, so she wore long Christian-style dresses that hid those gorgeous legs. Even as teenagers, those churchgoing traits were instilled in us. It didn’t matter how old we were — in Mom’s house, everyone went to church.

“Sunday is the Lord’s Day, and we must worship him. Everyone get up and get ready, now,” Mom would tell us.

Every Sunday, off to church we went.

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

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Nina Norstrom

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

Synopsis

Author Biography

Author Insight

Moms We Love You

Book Excerpt

Not a Blueprint: It's the Shoe Prints That Matter

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