A Sharecropper's Son: The Life of Ted Sullen

By Shirleen Von Hoffmann

This is the story of Ted (Roosevelt) Sullen, a Sharecroppers Son. In the story of his life and upbringing, you learn that real American spirit comes in all packages. He overcame his tough upbringing in the rural south only to endure the horrors of Vietnam but never let any of it dampen his internal light. This book teaches you that there are Heroes walking among us every day, if we just take the time to look.


A touching and heartfelt story of a man who overcame many obstacles but didnt see it that way. He kept moving forward with his entire heart and lived life to the fullest! I loved this story! I am going to share this story with my four children because I want them to know how life was for some and how they can overcome anything in life and still succeed!
Michelle Glover
Author of Hot Button Motivation

A Sharecroppers Son is a celebration of enormous fortitude not only for Ted, but for the Author as well. Enlightening, poignant and compelling, Teds personal story of perseverance, touched my heart and reminded me why this life is worth living. He is an amazing man and a true champion, with a wonderful story to tell. Not only did this book capture my heart, but it will capture yours.
Cynthia Sharp
Author of P.S. You are Loved

"Ted's is a beautiful, amazing life story. As much as I enjoyed the process, I turned each page with more and more inspiration drawn from his passion and compassion. He epitomizes selflessness. Right from the first chapter he looks beyond his circumstances with both inner-peace and strength."
Cynthia Askew
Editor

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456765651

Shirleen Von Hoffmann

Shirleen Von Hoffmann is President & Sales Coach of HBA-Home Builder’s AdvantEdge. Shirleen is an accomplished Sales Coach, Speaker and Author. She also founded and is President of a non profit cancer foundation that supports and cares for cancer patients in need called, “Calling all Angels”. A Sharecropper’s Son is her third book and first attempt as a “ghostwriter” on a project. In her first book, The Journey Home A true story of life, love, illness, passage and healing, Shirleen tells the heartbreaking true story of losing her mother to cancer. It is a story of a woman who is full of life and in the prime of life and then suddenly and without warning is diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer. The narrative unfolds as she makes the difficult transition from vibrant life to end-of-life. This story is about walking alongside someone you love and providing the support and care they need to find peace and comfort with life before death and with death itself. In Shirleen’s second book, “Secrets of Top Producers” - A New Way of Selling for New Home Professionals, Shirleen teaches Sales Agents new techniques to become Top Producing New Home Sales Professionals with her no nonsense, sales skills. Shirleen also writes sales articles for her blog “the Queen of Sales”, NAHB’s Sales and Marketing Idea’s Magazine, NAHB-NCMC’s National Sales and Marketing Channel and many other builder industry trade magazines. Shirleen is 50 years old and resides in Northern California and part time in Mazatlan Mexico. She can be reached at [e-mail] Her websites are: http://www.shirleenvonhoffmann.com http://www.journeyhomebook.com http://www.topproducersecretsbook.com

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A Sharecropper’s Son

The Life of Ted Sullen

Shirleen Von Hoffmann

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First published by AuthorHouse 6/15/2011

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"I dedicate this book to my wife Ann.

Thank you honey for being my loving wife all these years.

I love you so much."

Contents

Acknowledgements

Author Notes:

Testimonials

Chapter 1

Tending the Fields

Tending the Fields

Chapter 2

Tending the Wounded

Tending the Wounded

Chapter 3

Tending the Soul

Tending the Soul

Poems

Chapter 4

Tending a Life

Tending a Life

Chapter 5

Tending Dear Friends

Tending Dear Friends

Chapter 6

Tending me

Tending Me

Author Biography

Acknowledgements

I want to express my sincere Thanks to my writer Shirleen Von Hoffmann. Without your hours of dedication and talent this book would not have been written. I truly appreciate it and cherish the friendship we have developed throughout this writing. Thanks also to the editors Jim and Ginny Hopkins, Anne Murphy and Cynthia Askew. I appreciate your fine tuning of my project very much.

I also want to thank everyone I have worked with in the field. Taking care of Soldiers has been the most honorable privilege of my lifetime.

To the American Soldiers still fighting the fight for our freedom, there is nothing I can say to you but Thank You so much for your service from the bottom of my heart. May God always bless you and watch over you as he has me. May he give you the strength to endure anything hard that you may encounter in battle and in life.

Author Notes:

I met Ted Sullen one day, as I randomly sat down next to him at a restaurant bar waiting for some of my girlfriends to arrive. Of course Ted, being the networker he is, asked what I did for a living, and I told him I was an Author among other things. He then told me about his poems and if I could help him get his poems published. You see he wanted to make sure they got published before he died. He is not dying anytime soon by the way but just the same it got me. By the second drink, I had agreed to help.

I gave him my card and thought that would be the end of it; he would probably forget. But he didn’t forget, he called, we met and I read over his poems. After reading the poems, I told him; these are very romantic poems. I thought they would be about war? He said; Well I had to write the opposite of what I was seeing each day. And then he started to tell the story to me of his life. I insisted the book tell the whole story, not just the poems but the stories that coincided with the poems and he agreed. So our project went from helping him with some poems to telling the very