The Empty-Nest Road Trip Blues: An Interactive Journal from A Dad's Point-of-View

by Bruce Sallan

Overview

In Bruce Sallan's second book he documents his 3000-mile 8-day cross-country journey taking his eldest son to college, from Los Angeles to Boston. With over 100 photos, 7 never-seen-before videos, and live web links to places that they visited during the trip, this journal is designed to keep all readers interactive.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045137614
Publisher:	Bruce Sallan
Publication date:	12/07/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

"Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" are words from my favorite movie, Singin' In The Rain. The passion and excitement they evoke struck me to the core while I was taking a college film course taught by critic Manny Farber (author of the seminal book, "American Cinema."). Later, you could say I felt I "Gotta Write," but I'm getting ahead of myself.

A few years later, I was fortunate to get an internship with a television producer, while earning my M.B.A. from UCLA. What followed was an award-winning television executive and producing career. During those 25 years, I produced over 30 television movies, pilots, and series.

I produced my first television movie at age 24 and was a vice president at ABC by the time I was 29. If you care to learn more, you can see my credits and resume.

Along the way I was fortunate to work with such actors as Ingrid Bergman, Ron Howard (before he was a director), Mickey Rourke (THAT is a story), Don Johnson (another even better story), Ben Affleck, Hal Holbrook, Barbara Hershey, Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler, Alan Arkin, and Brian Dennehey. I wrote articles for Daily Variety and the Producers Caucus Bulletin.

My article entitled "Murders of the Week," was a response to the then popular trend of taking just about every unsavory murder story and making it into a television movie. That article sparked a healthy debate and I like to believe helped usher out that low period in the history of television movies. (If you read that article, you'll see an embarrassing photo of me when I had a full beard -- another trend that has thankfully passed).

I became a first-time dad, to a son, four days after my 40th birthday, less than 9 months after getting married (we got pregnant on the honeymoon). My second son was born three years later. When my boys were still quite young, I left show biz to become a full-time dad and to care for my ailing parents, the classic "sandwich" situation.

Sadly, shortly thereafter, my marriage ended and my wife abandoned our children, leaving the state. I found myself a full-time single dad, in my late-forties. And after a while, I jumped into the new world of Internet dating. I was surprised to find that it was pretty much the only mode of dating that anyone was using.

I began writing various blogs on the dating sites I used, as well as articles for local publications, including a regular column for a local paper about being a single dad. Late in 2008, ...