Wes Skillings

Broschiertes Buch

A Matter of Recovery

The Story of C.B. Miller

Beschreibung

In the summer of 1994, C.B. Miller was a bright-eyed, quick-witted twenty-one-year-old with his entire life ahead of him. He was about to start his junior year of college, and he was keenly focused on realizing his dream of becoming a high school teacher and coach. As C.B. was educating himself to start a career, his father, Mike, was preparing to retire from one. With the last of his four children nearing the end of school, Mike intended to exit from the work force, anticipating more free time to travel with his wife, Sharon. Each with plans of their own, father and son both eagerly awaited their futures. As chronicled in A Matter of Recovery, all of that would change in an instant one fateful night. A Matter of Recovery: The Story of C.B. Miller follows C.B., Mike, their family, and a community of friends through a challenging journey, one that begins with sheer survival and ends with hard-won success. By sharing their experiences with others, the Millers hope to not only inspire but also to inform. Millions of traumatic brain injury survivors face daily challenges. Many of them along with their loved ones do not know how to advocate for themselves as they encounter systems that are ill-equipped and people who are misinformed when it comes to dealing with TBI. If A Matter of Recovery helps just one person tackle the difficult tasks involved in making their own way, the Millers believe it will serve its purpose.

Autor

Wes Skillings retired from newspaper journalism on April 1, 2011, after 38 years as a reporter, columnist and editor where, among his assignments for three different newspapers, he covered everything from municipal meetings to murder trials. He is a Vietnam vet with a BA in English from Mansfield (PA) University, formerly Mansfield State College, where he won a national writing award with an essay in The Atlantic Magazine Creative Writing Contests for College Students.As a journalist, he received numerous Keystone Press Awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association (PNA) - fifteen of them over his last 11 years in the business. Eight placed first in the state in their respective categories. His first award came years before in 1980-a first place for Public Service from the Associated Press Managing Editors of Pennsylvania.Additionally, he is a self-published author whose first book published in 2014 was about one man's triumph over traumatic brain injury ("A Matter of Recovery: The Story of C.B. Miller").On October 7, 2022, Skillings published this meticulously researched book about small town justice and its abuses stemming from the October 1973 murder of a twelve-year-old girl: Mosaic Pieces: Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice. In the summer of 2025, the book was republished under his own brand.A father and grandfather, he and wife of 56 years as of February 1, 2025, Mary, live in healthy retirement in hometown Wyalusing, PA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LifeRich Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781489703019
• ISBN-10: 1489703012
• Artikelnr.: 53123045