Duffy Barkley: Seek Well: Tales of Uhrlin Book 2 - Paperback

by Dixie Dawn Miller Goode (Author)

Have you ever thought, "I'd love a do - over on my life?" Nine year old Duffy Barkley had been offered that chance, and in Duffy Barkley is Not a Dog, he took it - but like every choice, once made, there were consequences to be lived with. For Duffy, going back to an earlier time un-did the damage of serious choices and left him with a stronger instinct for compassion and courage. But it left him without the memories of the life that he had lived and the lessons he had learned. It came with no guarantees that he wouldn't make exactly the same mistakes or new ones again. It left him without the new friends whom he had made but it allowed him a chance to make a friend out of an old enemy - and that was the one chance, which ultimately saved them all, the first time he went to Uhrlin. The thing about do-overs is that there is no chance to sit back and rest on a mountain of your blue ribbons - instead you have to get up before you have ever caught your breath and save yourself all over again. Just because Duffy had managed to erase one tragedy didn't make him immune the next time trouble came looking for him and his friends. Now he's eleven and everyone thinks that one of the most trusted people he knew is a traitor. But he doesn't even remember that he knew her. To find her he must Seek Well. I hope you enjoy this sequel to Duffy Barkley is Not a Dog.

Author Biography

Before I ever dreamed of being a writer, I was a storyteller. I remember that the games I used to play with my brother and the neighborhood kids were not games of football or frisbee, but games of imagination. We would, in reality, be riding our bikes in circles around the block and the city park - but the whole time we would be following my imagination as the bikes became wild mustangs with names like "Singing Moon." We would wrestle a sled to the top of the monkey bars and sit balanced there while I told of our adventures in outer space aboard our spacecraft. We would clamp the metal roller skates to our tennis shoes and dart around the full basement, but we would be people who had been born with bone wheels on our feet and had become inventors simply to deal with the needs that created, a way to transport pants onto our bodies, a way to zip up mountains and so on. Then I lost my confidence in my stories. The kids at school did not understand how I played, and I became a bearer of "Dixie Fleas" who had to have invisible disinfectant sprayed on any desk I had occupied before another child would sit there. At school at least. I lost my voice. It wasn't until I was saturated in other people's stories, and love and support that I began to be brave again. Being a Mom and a wife showed me a world of love and joy. Writing the two Duffy Barkley books, and teaching kids every day, have allowed me to find, not only a voice, but a message. I want to share that the world is more filled with beauty and kindness than you will ever know unless you get out there and look for the good that is there for all of us to share.