Jeff Wood

Riding the White Line: a Struggle to Keep Life in Balance when Health, Job and Business Were Taken Away Jeff Wood

Riding the White line is a symbol of life and how we live it. When I ride my bike on many of the back roads around my upstate NY town I follow the white fog line that marks the right hand side of the road. It is the white line that keeps me on the right path. If I stray too far to the left I endanger myself by riding in the travel lane, if I stray too far to the right, I run the risk of riding into the shoulder and crashing and getting a serious case of road rash. To lead a "normal" life is similar to riding the "white line". When you stray off course bad things can happen to you. Riding the White line helps me to stay focused and on course. Things go wrong when your life is out of balance - just like when you stop riding the white line. What follows in this book are my thoughts and experiences during a life-changing, tumultuous part of my life. It follows the period in 1995 when I decided to start my own Internet Company, the merger and acquisition of other companies, my first cancer scare, the fall and ultimate demise of my foray into the business world, losing my job, and finally my battle with my cancer recurrence. Mix in a new house, teenagers, and world events like September 11, 2001 and it made for a wild ride.