'Heart On Wheels: Amazin' Stories from the Life of Tommy Hicks 1954-2017' Available Now

Heart on Wheels: Amazin' Stories from the Life of Tommy Hicks 1954-2017, by author Pat Jobe, is now avaialble for purchase.

Jobe, one of Tommy's long time friends and co-workers, says the book is a compilation of shared memories of Tommy's closest friends and family. "My hope is that attendees, whether they knew Tommy or not, will get taste of what a remarkably brilliant, funny, and doggedly determined person he was. He used a wheelchair for 40 years. He had great difficulty with the simplest of human functions. Yet he was never bitter. More than one person I interviewed said he had more fun out of life than most people who didn't have a disability. I would only add to that most people do have some kind of disability. We paint ourselves into corners of frustration, anger, fear, judgment. Tommy painted himself Duke blue and laughed almost from the cradle to the grave. He was one of those people who knew how to party even in the smallest of crowds. He did battle depression. Who wouldn't with his challenges? But he never let depression win. He made joy the ultimate winner. He had a blast and if one reader catches a spark of that, I will be thrilled."

"The book is the result of an extraordinary exchange of love. It often showed up as hilarious laughter, enormous tomfoolery, good times, practical jokes, furious frustration expressed at outcomes of sporting events, and other events and noises that some people might misinterpret as not being very loving. It was all love: a love for life, a love for winning, a love for other people. Frieda Sellers said so well, 'He had an infinite capacity for love.' But it is not just the love that Tommy Hicks gave to so many who crossed his path. He inspired so many to love him, to be inspired by him, to put aside their own petty complaints and do their best in the face of life's frustrations." said Jobe.

Copies of the book are now at Nyla Beans and Fiction Addiction in Greenville, Smith's Drugs, Next Door Books, Drop In #2, Hardin's Drug, Vassey Hemphill Jewelers and Hill's Hardware in Rutherford County and Got Books in Shelby. Also the offi ces of Rutherford Weekly and Shelby Shopper and online at www.wordpress/heart-on-wheelsamazin'- stories-from-the-life-of-tommy-hicks- 1954-2017-by-pat-jobe