PUD The Wannabe Cat

PUD was our cat and he disappeared for 2 weeks several years ago. After using posters around the community and posting on social media, we gave up and thought he was gone until one night, around midnight, we were woken again by his familiar cry.

The book covers his adventures and use of his nine lives to survive and will be published by Aurora House Publishing as were the first two of my books. They are very easy to work with and are an Australian company.

The talented Donika Mishineva produced the cover; illustrations were drawn by Boomer artist and advocate Keith Blake and yes it was written by me for parents/grandparents to read to children or 4–9-year-olds to read for themselves.

I like the challenge of writing different genres and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience in bringing Pud back to life.

Description

Brian Murphy

The Baby Boomer generation were born in a period of history that arguabley would allow them to achieve more as a group than any previous generation. A period of stability, general world peace, free education, liberal thinking without being over persecuted and individual achievement.

Not all baby boomers achieved greatness, but Brian Murphy is one example of how my generation took the initiative. Some just went along with the ride and achieved small things and what a ride it was.

The period began with the baby boom of the late 40’s, 50’s and early 60’s and was the catalyst for the dramatic changes to society over the next 50 years. Changes to tradition, government focus and laws, societal expectations and rules, war and peace, education, arts, science and culture.

So how did the average baby boomer cope? How did it affect their everyday lives and how did they react to the changes and cope with the stress that change inevitable brings?

Baby Boomer advocate and current editor of the Boomer website www.bonza.com.au (Baby Boomers of NZ and Australia) brings a wealth of experience and research to his life story covering this Boomer period. He is a trained change agent, nothing clandestine like a secret agent, but used by the Queensland Education Department to change the culture of school communities by interacting with all the players involved and informing them about changes to the system. Teachers, students, P&C committees, parents and the school community. He has continued to use these skills since in dealings with government agencies like Centrelink, community groups like Not for Profit organisations, clubs like Probus and the public generally though community presentations, PowerPoint packages, Facebook blogs and the BONZA website.

Brian is an educator and life mentor and is passionate about @my generation’. He has consistently informed and educated hundreds of thousands of Boomers and the big picture that lies ahead of us all as Australia and NZ ages about how it will affect them individually.

This is his life story which in reality will be much the same as many of his fellow Boomers.