One Puddle Too Many

by Anthony Miller

Overview

Ashley Miller Biography (One Puddle Too Many)
The Title (One Puddle Too Many)

The Title (One Puddle too many) comes from the book “I Can Jump Puddles” by Alan Marshall who at an early age contracted poliomyelitis (better known as polio or infantile paralysis) and was crippled at a very early age. Polio in Alan’s time (early 20th Century) inflicted many young people and the medical world would struggle to stop the infliction. In my early age (the 1960s) polio was not a concern as a simple injection and later oral medication took it off the radar. For Ashley there were too many puddles to jump as his life finished 12th May, 2008 at the young age of eighteen. However just like medical research found prevention for Polio I believe Medical Research will find cures for “Caps” Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, cerebral palsy or any other inflictions people find themselves having to deal with but it requires as much support as possible. This includes stem cell research and I call on everyone to set aside religious or other moral beliefs as even though it is too late for Ashley there are others who suffer and anyone with any kind of empathy must be saddened to see children or anyone suffer like Ashley did throughout his life.
Edited with the assistance of Margaret Langdon.
Maggie has done a great job formatting the two ebooks I have published so
far, and they have both been accepted into Smashwords' premium catalogue.
She also copy edited and proofread my second book, 'Tales from the Long Red
Line'. I definitely recommend the services of Ebook Assist to authors
wanting to self-publish ebooks.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153661940
Publisher:	Anthony Miller
Publication date:	07/30/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	289 KB

About the Author

Born October 1958 (Eighth of Ten) in Melbourne Australia and went through school at local Primary and High Schools. Straight onto RMIT to study Accounting in 1977. My father passed away in 1979 (in my second last year) and I graduated in 1981. Worked as an Assistant Accountant at Dunlop Olympic Tyres from late 1980. In 1981 started dating my now wife Kerry until we moved out together in late 1982. 1983 saw me leaving my employment and with Kerry departing Australia for eighteen months to travel. We went through the then USSR (which is the basis of my next book after 'One Puddle Too Many' 'Tales from the Long Red Line') via the 'Trans Siberian' Railway and onto London. Then onto Mandello Del Lario (in Northern Italy) where we picked up our new Moto Guzzi Motorcycle which was our base for travelling around Europe for the next twelve months. After five months we used London as a base (we had to work to obtain more funds) and it was in the time when London would embrace Australian Trained Accountants.
Further travels included a bus around Ireland, train travel through The Nederland's, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, West Germany and Greece where we flew back to Australia via Singapore.
Kerry and I married in 1985 and our first child was born in August, 1986. Life was 'normal' living in a northern suburb of Melbourne and in 1989 our second son was born to which the book 'One Puddle Too Many' is based on. Since Ashley's death, Kerry and I have travelled further in 2012 (Japan, North West USA, Iceland, London and Kuala Lumper) and in 2015 (Rio, Las Vegas, etc).