Look ma, life’s easy! What I learned about leading an easy life from Ernie Zelinski

Ernie Zelinski is another author that I am glad I discovered. I remember it was through a chance meeting with another Toastmaster at HomeSense. I had a couple of books that I was interested in buying, and then saw another Toastmaster who actually led a very similar life to mine. He’s into technology, he is the host of a podcast, he wrote a children’s book, and he is an ever-present and active Toastmaster. He introduced me to his partner and then they both mentioned that there was a store that re-sold items for charity and that the store had a lot of good books, if you were willing to be patient. I told him that I was working on a book and he told me that he knew Ernie Zelinski who wrote The Joy of Not Working.

I had never heard of the book before, but I purchased a few copies for my Dad to give him a nudge that he should retire soon. Shortly after, I decided to purchase a copy for myself and then purchased some of his other books, which has since changed my life.

Look ma, life’s easy is another book by Ernie, but this one is in the form of one of my favourite styles of non-fiction books, it is a parable. A lot of parables can be cheesy or contrived, and it is a challenge to write a parable sharing lessons without it being contrived. The premise of this book is that Sheldon, a…