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Three Questions with Van Heerling.       My Guest Today is @JaneCarroll10. 

8/9/2012

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Welcome to Three Questions with Van Heerling. This is where you get to meet authors, actors, painters and anyone else that is bent toward the arts, but on a more personal level.
Today I welcome Jane Carroll author of Bertha Size Your Life! 

VH:
If you could go back in time to when you were seven years old, what wisdom or advice would you pass on to yourself?

JC: Don’t pass notes during Grammar Class. Pay attention. Unlike Algebra, you’re going to need this stuff one day. Honestly, I find punctuation to be the most challenging part of writing. In fact, I’ve been in comma therapy for years now with a professional editor who says I am not making progress.

VH: It sounds like we may have the same editor. 


What is the number one lie you tell yourself? How is that working out?

JC: The biggest lie that I have told myself is that I’m not enough. On the one hand it worked just fine for years—after all I believed it. On the other hand—it held me back all those years as well. The truth is, I am enough just like everyone else is. There’s no such thing as not being enough.

VH: Well said. 


After a difficult day what do you do to recuperate? Does it work?

JC: I drink a glass of scotch and do yard work in the nude. No, not really. I don’t like scotch or yard work and I don’t think my neighbors would enjoy seeing me disrobed. It just sounded more interesting than the things that I actually do like going to the gym or for a bike ride, Reiki, taking a nap, talking to a friend, writing, and usually going to bed early. It must work…I’m still here.

VH: Thank you Jane.


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Bertha-Size Your Life! Is a book of personal transformation that reads like a series of entertaining and humorous stories. Bertha, a zany redhead, mysteriously appears in the narrator's life during a walk in the park. Quicker than a man can hand off a baby with a dirty diaper, she has moved into the narrator's empty nest and the fun begins.

You never know what Bertha will think up next from flying a hot air balloon to singing to her begonia, she's always up to something. Bertha delights in standing on her soapbox while dispensing down-home wisdom and perky advice, explaining The Law of Attraction in a refreshing, humor-filled, practical way that has the reader going aha! instead of humph! 

Throw in a conniving nemesis, an antagonistic cat, lime green spandex and high-heels and you've got a book that's sure to tickle your funny bone and leave you wearing your thinking cap as you read and reread each vignette.


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Jane Carroll, Author of Amazon Bestselling Bertha-Size Your Life, is a Life Coach, Registered Nurse, Reiki Master, Mother, Grandmother, and long-time student of life. She has seen the focus of her over 30 year nursing career change from illness to wellness to wholeness, a philosophy that permeates everything she does. While she enjoys all aspects of her life, writing is her passion and she is currently working on Bertha’s latest adventures.


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6 Comments
Wendy Siefken link
8/10/2012 12:08:29 am

Love the interview! very well done Van, Jane and Bertha!

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Jane Carroll link
8/10/2012 12:42:11 am

Thanks, Wendy! Van asked some really tough questions...but it was a lot of fun!

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Paul Rega link
8/10/2012 12:10:22 am

Hi Jane,

Nice interview, especially like your comment about drinking a glass of scotch and doing yard work in the nude. I'm not much of a scotch drinker but the other part intrigues me. Boy, Van sure has a way of pulling this kind of information out of us! He is the master! Congrats on your new book---loved it!

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Jane Carroll link
8/10/2012 12:46:12 am

Thanks, Paul. Van does pull out some unexpected answers...luckily my neighborhood has covenants about such a thing so I won't have to have to actually try it! So glad you enjoyed Bertha...she is a fun book with a lot of insight.

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ChristyB link
8/10/2012 02:03:32 am

Great answers Jane! Nice to see you getting great recognition for your writing

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Jane Carroll link
8/10/2012 02:16:58 am

Christy, thank you for your comment. This was a really fun and I so appreciate Van for interviewing me. Writing is truly a joy in my life!

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    ​"For me, writing is a joyful torture or sorts." ~vh~
    “In this life, seek your own answers, and quote yourself for a change.” ~vh~
    The muse has tapped my shoulder and my ear is turned toward her lips. I am waiting for her whisper. ~vh~
    "The funny thing about life: more often than not it’s laughing at you rather than you laughing at it." ~vh~
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