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    Moving Forward Looking Back
    Moving Forward Looking Back
    Moving Forward Looking Back
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    Moving Forward Looking Back

    By Beth Ann Blackwood

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    How long does it take to move forward from the loss of the love of your life?  An inspirational back and forth journey through the joys and hardships of life, Moving Forward, Looking Back is a week by week catalog of Beth Ann's first year after her husband Tom's death, written in real time. Each of the 52 chapters is broken into two parts, starting with the present and then reflecting back on the thirty-two year tumultuous relationship between two Type A people, from its rocky beginning to its heartbreaking end. 

    Winding its way through the dusty plains of West Texas oil country, Nixon-era dirty politics, high stakes courtroom battles and medical setbacks, Moving Forward, Looking Back tells in unflinching detail Beth Ann's efforts to withstand her black hole of grief over Tom's death by looking back at their imperfect, passionate love story and using every tool available to move forward into her new present. 

    Part love story, part lamentation, part tentative hope, Moving Forward, Looking Back will resonate with anyone who has experienced devastating loss.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFlights of Fancy Publishing House, LLC
    Release dateMar 31, 2023
    ISBN9798215869482
    Moving Forward Looking Back
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    Beth Ann Blackwood

    Beth Ann Blackwood is an author and self-employed commercial litigator from Dallas, Texas. She is widowed with 4 stepchildren, 2 step-grandchildren, and 4 recently acquired double step-grandchildren (her term for her stepson’s stepkids). She graduated from Baylor University with a degree in psychology and from Baylor Law School. She has worked in law and politics and is an AV rated lawyer.  Outside of work, she is an avid marathon runner, having run in 42 marathons and hopes to compete in a half ironman. Beth Ann is an animal lover; she owns two pugs, three cats and has taken up horseback riding, specifically dressage. She also volunteers through the Dallas Animal Shelter fostering kittens. She is currently a speaker at Highland Park Methodist Church and has volunteered through Pet Partners to visit patients with her dogs at Presbyterian Hospital.  

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