{"product_id":"in-the-extra-years-roger-sippl-9781945875960","title":"In the Extra Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e In the Extra Years by Roger Sippl is a poetry book. It's about how I spent the rest of my life after I survived, at age nineteen, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of cancer that, at the time, only gave me a twenty percent chance of living further. This book is poetry. Therefore, it doesn't detail everything I did. Many events in my past just don't make good poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I took three companies public, and although it got me the Golden Hat Trick Award from my underwriter, Cristina Morgan, all that business stuff just isn't very lyrical, although I suppose someday I should try to make it so. But there is a little factoid that does make for a good story, if not a poem. Once, for a week-long party with my friends in the Caribbean, I chartered a cruise ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It only had 50 staterooms, so it was a small cruise ship, as cruise ships go. Chartering it was motivated by the desire, when I thought I was dying, to just go to the beach with my friends. When I thought I was going to lose them all, all at once, that was my number one thought. Years after my cancer treatment I had some success in the software business and I realized I never took that time to hang out with my friends on a sunny day in the sand. After the third IPO I decided I was probably at the peak of things, so I declared it to be \"The Year of Roger\" and took my friends on this trip \"to the beach\" - which became \"The Year of Roger Cruise\" complete with logowear, fireworks one night, a toga party another, and the inevitable martini-tasting contest with talent show put on completely by my guests.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e I did things like that in the extra years. Perhaps all my life I was that way in my mind, but after cancer I lived it - too confident, impulsive and too willing to forget about the consequences of failure. Cancer made me more sure that nothing good was going to happen for me unless I made it happen, and further, bad things were definitely going to happen, no matter what, so I better enjoy my life right now before it's too late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Whether you call it a good attitude or a bad attitude, it made for a wonderful life. In my next book I'll fill in the blanks between the poems with prose, explain what was going on when I wrote each poem, and what I meant to say by writing it, to the extent I know. But for now, I'll leave you with just the poems, and you'll have the luxury of exactly your own interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Please let me know any thoughts you have on any of the poems, or the whole collection, at roger@sipmac.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Sippl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945875968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945875960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Sisters Writing and Publishing LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Roger Sippl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45477226283263,"sku":"9781945875960","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82c8189d-d3a7-4641-b458-17e59b0a8df3.jpg?v=1715919398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-extra-years-roger-sippl-9781945875960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}