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Everyone has a story…
Debut author, Lisa K. Price has many.
Run it Out touches all the bases in a culmination of personal experiences that challenged and tested her—as happens to many of us on this journey we
call life. Your heart will be touched by how Lisa adjusted to maternal abandonment, lived at-or-below poverty level, was denied resources for girls/women's sports, survived difficult years as a military spouse, worked and attended college as a single mom, and suffered through Alzheimer's and traumatic brain injuries.
Each chapter is an inning—a story that while not specifically about baseball, remind Lisa of her father’s coaching and how she learned how to stare down her determined opponents and learned to defeat struggle, adversity and—fiercest of all—the seemingly impossible issues in life.
Her stories are a richly woven pattern of life’s lessons, and the discovery that she racked up more tally marks in the "Win" column than the “Losses.”
RUN IT OUT-
WHEN GIVING UP IS NOT AN OPTION
Book Trailer -Silverlight Press (by Publisher Susan Sember)
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WELCOME FROM AUTHOR LISA K. PRICE
Thanks for stopping by my author website! I’m Lisa Kathlyne Price or as my dad used to call me: “Lisa K.” In fact, my dad is the inspiration behind my book, Run It Out. As my coach of girls softball during an era where baseball fields were only for boys, my dad, Bob Price, found a way to build a field, teach us the game and plant the seeds of determination which continue to grow throughout my life. As the fourth of six kids, I was always the “artsy-fartsy” one as my mom would say. Nature, music, writing, hiking, camping, photography, gardening with my dad and rescuing animals were just a few of my interests as a child and remain so to this day.
While Run It Out is based on lessons learned by being part of a team, the greatest lesson was that from my coach, my dad. Many references to softball or baseball are peppered throughout the book. However Run It Out is a series of life situations where giving up seemed like the only option. But through the “coaching” of my father as a child and later, on my own as a single mom, I learned to apply the true concept of running it out and never giving up.
Writing this book was a labor of love. Living in a busy city in Colorado I’d always retreat to small cabins or camping spots in the mountains to get away from and write. After recovering from COVID I decided to sell my big home of 20 years where I’d lived and loved with my two sons and countless pets. I found my own Little House on the Mountain and from here, surrounded by the splendor of the Rockies, the local wildlife and this untamable sky, I penned Run It Out.
I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I did writing it. It’s also my desire that you find inspiration, determination, hope and even a few laughs on the pages that were scripted through some tears, some great memories and lessons, and always from my heart.
Enjoy!
“Lisa K.”
BEHIND THE STORIES
Based on the lessons learned from my dad and later my stepmom, Run It Out is a culmination of personal experiences which have challenged and tested me and at times, all of us, on this journey we call, “life”. Addressing situations such as maternal abandonment and at-or-below poverty level living as the fourth of six kids to playing softball, denial of resources for girls/women’s sports, military spouse, working and attending college as a single mom, motorcycles, Alzheimer’s, and traumatic brain injuries, Run It Out touches all the bases.
I intentionally laid out my book to correlate to women’s softball where seven innings are played with Extra Innings if need be. Each chapter is an inning and each inning has a story. While not directly about softball or baseball it’s through softball and the “coaching” of my father that I learned how to stare down my determined opponents. While not always under a team name, my opponents were often called, Struggle, Adversity, and the fiercest of all, Seemingly Impossible. Through the lessons I learned and continue to apply in my life I have more tally marks in the “Win” column than that of the “Losses”.
It is my hope and it is certainly my intent that Run It Out reaches you and perhaps offers a new perspective on how the application of three little words continues to help me in life and the lives of those around me.
Never Give Up!
Lisa K. Price
WHOLLY KICKS
Wholly Kicks is a 501(c) 3 organization based in Aurora, Colorado and serves Aurora and the surrounding Denver area.
Wholly Kicks was founded in 2018 by “Tyg”. Initially founded to provide new shoes to homeless individuals, Wholly Kicks has also provided tens of thousands of new shoes to children in less-affluent school districts and regions. “Wholly Kicks is a non-profit organization whose presence in Aurora, Colorado, and the Denver Metro area, exists for the purpose of “walking with” those in impoverished areas or those at risk of or, experiencing homelessness. Through the distribution of new shoes and socks, the focus of Wholly Kicks is to mentor and build relationships in “walking with” individuals experiencing economic disparity. Wholly Kicks provides new shoes and socks to children and adults through large events and personal interactions on the street, in shelters, in Title 1 schools, with community non-profits, to case managers, at motels, and low-income housing units.” (Whollykicks.org) Tyg and Wholly Kicks believe that every human deserves to feel whole and significant. Having a brand-new pair of shoes, aka, “kicks” and not something left over or discarded, as they can sometimes feel, can contribute in even the smallest way, to having that individual feel pride in something that is specifically for them, uniquely THEM.
I have chosen Wholly Kicks as the non-profit to which some of the proceeds from Run It Out will be contributed. I wholeheartedly believe in their mission in not only serving others but involving so many community members to donate their time and efforts to make such a difference in so many lives and contributing to the success of a community. If that weren’t enough, I am blessed to call Tyg my friend and continue to feel gratitude for all the decades he was instrumental in helping me to Run It Out.
Please join me in supporting Wholly Kicks.
Lisa K.
