Keeping The Watch: Caretaking The Hidden Value Of A Family Heirloom

A Christian family saga of how God answers a patriarch’s prayer and provides a means for multiple generations of one family to choose Him, and home.

Meet Patrick Blau

Sure I’d always thought about writing a book years gone by. Thought about it from time to time, but it never became important enough for me to actually sit down and begin. In 2015 my father gave me my inheritance, a pocket watch, which had been passed down from youngest son to youngest son through five generations. Three years later in 2018 my father passed away, and on a whim one day I opened the watch and found an old photograph cut and pressed into the back cover. The watch had stopped ticking at some time in the past, showing a time of just after noon. Or midnight, depending on how you looked at it. A pocketwatch database website yielded even more details on my inheritance, and the details that I found surrounding its existence, and the existences of the men who had kept it before me, finally gave me the drive and ambition to write a book. “Keeping The Watch” will end up being the first of my books that I’ll write. One day God will give me the drive and ambition to do it again. That’s how I write, and I think it’s worked rather well. And I’m sure my Dad would agree.

The Three Kitties That Saved My Life

“This is like drinking tea and honey on a cold day.” When tragedy struck, I thought for sure that my own life was at an end. I was wrong. This is the true story of how two stray rescue cats and a woman named Kitty, whom I finally met after a wild ride of internet dating, brought love, romance, and laughter back into my life.

Love was then. 
Love is now. 
Love is forever. 

WINNER of the 2018 Stephen Memorial Award 
FINALIST for the 2014 RONE AWARD 
A True Romance Memoir 

If you love reading feel-good memoirs, then don’t miss THE THREE KITTIES THAT SAVED MY LIFE, where “Mike Meyer pens a tender tale of love, loss, and renewal. The depth of emotion is palpable…The Three Kitties will tug at readers’ heartstrings, as they ride through the emotional highs and lows of Mike Meyer’s remarkable story.” – InD’tale Magazine