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Tim Gamble

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Tim Gamble is a memoirist who writes humorous and heartfelt stories about life experiences, unexpected adventures, relationships, and the lessons found along the way. His books combine honesty, humor, and reflection to explore the moments that shape us.

His work grows from lived experience, sharp observation, and a lifetime of telling stories long before he set out to write them down. A later-life author rather than a career academic or literary insider, he approaches the page the way he approaches conversation: curious, without pretense, and with an instinct for finding humor where certainty runs thin. As he puts it, he has “touched the lives of many people without a single restraining order.”

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15 - For What It's Worth

The Afternoon Sandy's Floor Wax Broke

After nearly twenty-one years of marriage, a surprise pregnancy brings Sandy and her husband into unfamiliar territory. There will be a brilliantly cleaned kitchen floor, an unexpected trip to the hospital, and a few days that change the meaning of almost everything. The joke comes first. The rest of the story doesn't promise to cooperate.

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Published on November 06, 2026 02:50 • Tags: gratitude, hope, humor, love, memoir, parenting, resilience, uncertainty

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"The Afternoon Sandy's Floor Wax Broke After nearly twenty-one years of marriage, a surprise pregnancy brings Sandy and her husband into unfamiliar territory. There will be a brilliantly cleaned kitchen floor, an unexpected trip to the hospital, ..." Read more of this blog post »
" A Hamburger, a Straitjacket, and a Perfectly Good Night A hitchhiking trip with his sister, a visit to her friend in Pennsylvania, and an unsuccessful search for hamburger. What could go wrong? Quite a lot, as it happens, especially when the pe..." Read more of this blog post »
"The Trouble With Yesterday First love has a bad habit of staying seventeen even after everybody else grows up. The trouble isn't simply remembering what happened. It's discovering that an old memory can still make demands on the present. “We eac..." Read more of this blog post »
"“The world isn’t coming to you.” Funny You Should Ask … Tim Gamble, p. 373 The sentence appears at the beginning of a story about hitchhiking, when stepping onto a highway meant surrendering a fair amount of control over what happened next. It c..." Read more of this blog post »
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“If essence is the stability of constant change, is change therefore the essence of stability?”
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" Thank you for spending time with the book, and for taking a moment to write about it. I hope you enjoyed the ride as much as I enjoyed telling it. Tim "
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“This looks interesting. Let’s see where this takes us.”
― Tim Gamble

“We don’t build our own self-esteem from the mistakes of others.”
― Tim Gamble, Funny You Should Ask ... Tim Gamble: Tales of Resilience, Laughter, and Life Lessons

“I’ve told my son I only have two rules, forgiveness and humility.”
― Tim Gamble, Funny You Should Ask ... Tim Gamble: Tales of Resilience, Laughter, and Life Lessons

“There’s never enough time to get everything done because everything cannot be done.”
― Tim Gamble, Now What Are We Talking About Here?: TRUE TALES OF RESILIENCE, LAUGHTER & LIFE LESSONS

“You never know what’s coming at you next—only that something is.”
― Tim Gamble, Now What Are We Talking About Here?: TRUE TALES OF RESILIENCE, LAUGHTER & LIFE LESSONS

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