Living a Meaningful Life

The Bench is the first book of the epic and long book series Living a Meaningful Life. The Bench is the correct place to start your amazing journey of feeling, sensing, remembering, and learning what matters most in life. Within the deeply moving storylines, you will find drama, love, laughs, tears, and thoughts and observations that will leave you contemplating your own life.

The Farm is the next step in the journey of the Living a Meaningful Life series. This installment is the more juvenile coming-of-age installment, full of fun, adventure, and life lessons. They feature the first main character as a child, and thus include some “juvenile” and “coming of age” storylines and serve as a foundation for the series.

The Lake: Living a Meaningful Life is the third book of the epic book series Living a Meaningful Life, a series for adults and teens of all ages. Each book examines the challenges involved with facing the harsh realities of life, and rising above them despite setbacks, mistakes, losses, and other negative circumstances. In this, the most dramatic installment of the series yet, the main character is challenged like never before.

The Favor: Living a Meaningful Life is the fourth book in the series Living a Meaningful Life. In order to best understand the storylines, backstories, and full context, it is recommended that you first listen to the book one, The Bench: Living a Meaningful Life, book two, The Farm: Living a Meaningful Life, and book three, The Lake: Living a Meaningful Life.

The Promise will stir within you deep emotions, and leave you contemplating your own life choices and possibilities. When we have the courage and discipline to do the right things for the right reasons, we are richly rewarded in ways that we cannot even imagine. There are plenty of tears in this one, but they are tears of joy. You will also enjoy an abundance of laughs, as you experience the banter between the characters we have come to know and love.

In this very emotional, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, the main character and his family must make huge sacrifices for the benefit of the community they love and swore to support. Huge sacrifices made can result in huge blessings given. There are some tears in this one, but also plenty of laughs and priceless banter between the characters you have come to know and love. The Sacrifice will stir within you deep emotions and leave you contemplating your own life choices and possibilities.

The Challenge: Living a Meaningful Life, is Book 7 in the series: Living a Meaningful Life. In order to best understand the storylines, back-stories, and full context, it is recommended that you first listen to Books 1-6. In this very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, the young star of the series finally gets his chance to prove himself. He must endure trials and tribulations to see if he has what it takes to secure his place within the family dynasty. This is one of the early high-points of the series.

In this very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment of the series, our favorite couple finally ties the knot, but this is by no means a spoiler, because there is a twist or two. Meanwhile, our favorite young star manages to increase his star-rating even higher. The hilarious antics come toward the end of the book when father and son must have the “father and son talk.”

The Crew gives us a closer look into Rudy’s huge inner-circle of friends, and their antics. The Crew is another high-point in the series, as it chronicles Rudy’s growing success, but also a very emotional event which rocks his world. How Rudy handles this “event” will prove him worthy of his destiny. Highly emotional installment.

Living A Meaningful Life is a series for adults and teens of all ages. Book 10 of the series, "The Substitute," is a very amusing, inspiring, and touching installment which moves the series deeper into allowing the listener to experience the very deep, complex, and meaningful relationship between father and son. The themes are still very much about sacrificing to do what is right, but also shows us what a loving parent and child relationship can look like. This is a particularly fun and amusing installment, and Rudy does not disappoint.