Unlived and Lived Lives for me, you, and frogs.

Discussions about unlived lives cause some to insist there is no such thing; we only live one life.

I get it; there's no proof that unlived lives are a thing. But it's also true there is no proof they aren't.

None of which matters to me. I'm just a guy who writes fiction books as though unlived lives are real.

​And now that we're on the subject, it occurs to me that saying we only live one life is not true. Take me, for instance.

• I was a paper boy, age 10 to 12.
• When I turned 13, I began a new life as a teenager.
• Age 19 to 21, a soldier.
• Overlapping that life, I began my being a husband life at 21.
• My college student life restarted for real at 21, as well.
• After college, age 25, I began my career life working in companies owned by others.
• At 35, I started my entrepreneurial life, founding a series of companies.
• Also at 35, my being a father life happened.
• At 65, my author life began.
• At 67 my being a grandfather life took off. 

Ten distinct lives, demanding that I meet the very different requirements of each of them. It's me throughout all of them, just a little different each time.

Kind of like frogs without the tail.