At age 58, Monty Cartwright was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Mantel Cell Lymphoma. During his forty-year career as an athletic coach and health educator, he had learned much about the importance of attitude and being a competitive athlete. In this book, Monty Cartwright shares the proactive mental and physical approach of the Athletic Mind Attitude (AMA) in dealing with the challenges of adversity, illness, and aging. AMA is a positive philosophical mind set that adopts sport principles, routines, and rituals to one's lifestyle. "Aging, Health, and the Athletic Mind Attitude - A Game Plan for Aging and Health Challenges" is a common-sense resource about effort, choice, and being an active player and not a passive fan. A survey taken of competitive senior athletes and their wise words are included in this life-changing book.

Dirt Beneath My Feet is a book of sharing. Its poems and photographic compositions share words and images relating to the quaternity elements of life, soul, and the phenomena of how we each touch and are touched along life's path. From the haunting introductory section of "Shadow People" to the concluding narrative poem Second Coming Mechanic, the author uses simple, direct dialogue to capture images, feelings, and inner thoughts. Dirt Beneath My Feet is a uniquely reader-friendly work of poetry. It has large print, generous text spacing, a sense of format solitude, and reader reflection pages for personal notes. The author shares insight and inspiration for his poetry by including brief comments at the beginning of each chapter.