The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Bushy Tail: The Curious Squirrel by Florence P Bullis

Episode Date: January 25, 2026

Bushy Tail: The Curious Squirrel by Florence P Bullis https://www.amazon.com/Bushy-Tail-Squirrel-Florence-Bullis/dp/B0B3VTTDWW Bushy Tail The Curious Squirrel By: Florence P. Bullis The camp may be home for several squirrels, but only one called Bushy Tail, shows up regularly and he is into everything. Bushy Tail, a lively, energetic, inquisitive creature of the forest, reclaims the campground as his permanent residence. Nothing is beyond his ability to investigate and report back to Chatter, his mate. The campers all appear to have fun, especially with a character like Bushy Tail around. If there are more squirrels than these two, the others are too shy to be seen in the campsite at the same time as Bushy. A young couple with two small boys are quite challenged to live for six weeks in a conestoga-like, fold-down camper trailer. The campground is located in Florida with a shower and restroom building close to the site. A natural pool is provided for recreation, and Bushy Tail’s antics entertain at least this one camper family. Florence P. Bullis combines a little fiction with a bit of non-fiction in poetic form, from a squirrel’s point of view with humor and excitement, filling the experience with treasured memories worth sharing back home and with future campers. About the Author When her own children had grown and produced children of their own, Florence P. Bullis began gathering the journals of her memories to share with the next generation. Her hope is that in the lives of this electronically connected culture, the joy of experiencing nature is not lost. Florence is now a retired LPN and an author of 5 other books: Including Vision of Two Ships, an auto-biography and Welcome Holy Spirit, a 50 day devotional. From her kitchen window, she often checks on the lively black and brown squirrels, wild turkeys, groundhogs and an occasional deer that appear in her backyard. More episodes of Bushy Tail may be pending.

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How are you? I'm doing well. Just wonderful, thank you. Thank you. It's wonderful to have you as well on the show. Give us a lowdown on everything you do there. Now, you were going through lots of different issues with emotional trauma in your childhood, postpartum depression, when your boys were very young, et cetera, et cetera,

and different things and some different things that happened to there, I guess. Give us dot-coms. Where do you want people to find you on the interwebs? Well, I'm working on a website, and I thought we had it all together, but it just needs something more to happen. And it was originally to be called purposely, curious.com. That name may have to change. I don't. I have to get my grandson expert here.

Okay. Sounds. All right. Sounds good then. So give us a 30,000 overview. What's inside your new book? We have to have a backstory, a little bit of a backstory. I was not, I was acquainted with camping and, and the travel trailers because, My dad was in the service. When I was seven years old, he said to mom after boot camp come and bring a trailer with you because there's no place to live, but I want to even with me. So mom and her, she was a 5'4 10 year tall, and she got up. She had a 42 Chevalé, what they call the custom-built trailer, 16-foot. Wow.

That first experience she'd ever had in doing something like this. And she and Grandma and Grandma's brother's friend, on our way to Georgia in this travel trailer. And so this was not unfamiliar to me to be in a type of vehicle at that. On the way, this travel, something was passing mom, and she thought, what, darn fool? And it was our travel trailer. He'd come unhitched.

Not only did it pass as on the left, it came in front of us, went over to the right and went up a little knoll and went to her stock at the gas station safe. Wow. That is wild. We thought Angels must have been in charge of that one. It should. Then maybe you guys are just driving too slow and that trailer had places to go, man. It was like, I'm out of here. I got things to do.

You guys are holding me back. But that's pretty wild. Now, that story there, does that incorporate with the book? Not really. I did a separate story from my, my granddaughter. That sounds like a story book,

maybe in and of itself. The trailer that wouldn't stay hitched. I gave you the title right there. It could be like the train that couldn't say no or so, I don't know what the train went. But the trailer that couldn't stay hitched, you know, he didn't like the people that were pulling his trailer. So he went in search of a new, better people to pull this trailer. I don't know what that'd be.

Mind of its own. Mind of its own. Now, you've written several books I'm seeing here on Amazon. How many books do you have? I have six. Actually, one of them is Avatran. I don't know what happened to that way, but I have five that are accessible. And, yes, they are.

faith-based, and just I fully believe they were inspired by the experiences that we had, that I had with my family, and they needed to be written down. I was a journalist, a journaler, and continually journaled all my experiences. And one of the reasons was when I was under treatment, my memory was affected for time. and I wanted to be sure that I remembered the right things, the good things in life, and the things that I could share with my children again, if they didn't remember them or didn't know about them, and remember that, John.

Gandh was very present in our lives. Well, it's important to have these things going on in your life as well. Now, tell us about this is your first children's book, right? This kind of break away from what you normally write about. You mention you write about religious, spiritual topics. Who is his bushy tail, the curious squirrel, and get us up to speed on this protagonist? Well, my husband and I, we covered from our health issues about three years later, and he wanted to go to South, to live.

So he achieved a job in Florida. And we sold our house in Erie, Pennsylvania. And we bought a kind of stoga-style camper. And knew we'd because we brought a house in Florida, and we knew that we would have to wait six weeks to, I could buy the house. So that that was our answer. So after Florida, we went with the two older boys. They were with us, and we came to the camper, we came to the campground that had an archgobe on it. This one little squirrel just caught our attention.

or he didn't see any other squirrels, just his white squirrel. Maybe it was different squirrels and only one at a time. We don't know for sure. But he was bold and he was resin, and he just wanted to know what was happening to his world. They're wonderful creatures, huh, the squirrels? They're fascinating. Yeah, they're pretty busy bodies, too.

But, you know, they've got to watch out for stuff. They've got to try and eat. They've got to watch out for hawks. other dangerous things, probably snakes or something out in their environment. Why did you choose him? Is it just something you always were enthralled with or you thought it might make a great story? What was the reason he chose him? Well, once again, I returned after the experience on camp and camping just so long. And I knew that's, I just backed him away for decades. I knew somehow it was kind of my first effort of just putting it all pulling something all together as a book.

enjoy nature and I wanted to encourage my children to enjoy nature as well. So actually my oldest son loved particular snake hunting and I was scared to death of snakes. But I didn't try to talk him out of it. I just pray projection over him and he was he didn't show them or mistreat them or anything but and ever so often he'd bring one home and though we dealt with that. And so you combine this with a little fiction and a bit of non-fiction in poetic form from a squirrel's point of view with humor and excitement. How hard was it to do that? Was it pretty easy to do and designing the things? Like some authors have their characters talk to them and tell them what they're up to and they write it down.

And some people have to create it from their own imagination. Tell us how your process there. It just came. It flowed. It was that that easy at terms. And I do believe it's the spirit that prompts our own spirits.

She just kind of opened up and relay it out for us. The, what was your, what prompted you to publish it now after you've been kind of known the story for a long time? I'm sorry. What prompted you to publish it now

after, you know, having the story in your head for so many years? Well, after I published the other books and through some difficult times, even, like my second husband was in a wheelchair, and I did the three books then. I don't, I think it was the illustrations. I didn't know who and how to go about the illustrations that kept, she pulled me back from trying to working with it. bushy tail. But I do, I have a friend now, a peer partner in Georgia, and we frequently

talk together, and she is an artist, and she did the illustrations for me. And good to have an artist to help you out, huh? Yes, really. So the bushy tale, uh, tells, do you see a future of additional books, maybe a series on the bushy tales? Just lately, just as I have been approached to share Richard Gail and the podcast. It just kind of opened up more and this more adventures will be a little more

faith focused. Oh, faith. I think you'd be able to open up the Sunday school class with Bushetown and we have a little toy squirrel. And I should have probably

got them out and a hen puppet. So we were working on that to share with a congregator. Mm-hmm. The Ann Puppet, as it were, Dan Puppet. So that would be really interesting, video movies. You can probably do an AI movie out of it too. So what do you hope people come away with when they read the book?

And who's it, what age group is it targeted to? I believe it's targeted to three-year-olds to eight-year-olds. Mm-hmm. It seems to be within that. to come to grandchildren. And I believe that, John, I believe that they will, hopefully begin to appreciate a little more nature. And if they don't go camping, that they can go on a nature walk with mom and dad or grandma,

he briefer. The, yeah, I mean, we talk about this a lot on the show, parents reading to children, giving books to children to read, you know, things that can develop their mind their imagination, everything else. Do you want to plug some of the other books you have? You want to give us some of the titles that you have for that? Yes. My first book, Amio, Autobio, is a visual of two ships.

And as I was recovering, in one aspect of recovery was a vision then. I felt the spirit had given to me. It was about a ship, finally on shipwreck and recovery island kind of thing, waiting for a rescue. And I felt like it was, it was like a secular introduction, perhaps, to the book of Revelation. And something similar to that. And so I put that in poetic form. It was three, at least three of my books.

How long are elaborated. I have two versions of it. Oh, wow. And, uh, when did you start writing? When did you first get interested in this? As I said, I was journaling throughout my life, and when my second husband was in the wheelchair, and we didn't have the opportunity to go places and do things, and it just seemed, timing-wise, it seemed like the time to get focused and what was in my heart on paper, what was on my paper,

when my journals, and paper too. and charts he what came up. Hmm. Hmm. And so now you've written all these books, and maybe this is a new thread to go on. Is there any future books that you currently have, that you're working and all that sort of good stuff? I feel I keep writing.

I keep writing on my computer things that could be some of a book. Right now it seems like I should focus on attempt you to get these books out of it. into the world. Oh yeah, you definitely got to do the marketing part too. That's just one of those things. You got to do the marketing. You got to do all that stuff. So yeah, that's one of the things. You can't just write a book and put it out. You got to do all the marketing stuff. It's a better writer than a speaker. And now I know I've found a BSB. Yeah. Most definitely. And so you're doing a lot of that. Do you do anything else? Do you need

coaching, consulting, anything on those lines? Yes, as the spirit of the Lord gives me opportunity to connect with people one-on-one. I attempt to encourage them with the scripture and with my experiences, and just the knowledge that good things can still happen in the midst of disabilities. Why isn't it important to have that kind of hope where you believe in that sort of thing? Oh, you know, we stay in darkness where we can't. Hope for something that we can't trust that God's got it and there's something more, there's something better.

This is all part of our testimony. We can move forward with that and it will turn out okay in the end. You know, hope is the thing that, you know, excels on this earth and makes everybody, you know, want to strive forward and the things might get better. So that's always good to have as well. What are, why do you, what do you enjoy about writing? Do you use a process where maybe you write an hour a day or do different things that way? Yes, there are periods of time, seasons.

I'm ready to write and it flows. And then I set it aside. Sometimes I go back and add more to it. Sometimes I just share it as it is with my group, my field group and Bible study group. and I'm involved with three churches. And not a heavy-duty gateway, but as we have opportunities to come together, I'm able to share these things

and with the thoughts that I feel are inspired by the spirit. Yeah, it's good to have that. It's good to have that. So as we move along, what's some advice you give to other writers, any potential authors or current authors out there from your experience of writing the number of books you have. Well, the important thing is we've got to set aside time

to organize our thoughts to plan out our chapters, even if we do more. Anything? We're going to plan and to believe in yourself and stay with it. You know that you've got something to share with people that they may not have thought about or have been remembered. that can get us over the difficult times in life and know that we can move on. Yeah, yeah, definitely. We can move on.

There's always hope. Do you think that story comes through with the Bush andale book? I'm not sure. I hope so, because when I finish the series, it will. Ah, now do you have a planned number of books that you're going to have in the series and all? So far, they're short stories, and, you know, adventures of Bushytale and Shatter, who is Bushy Tail's mate. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

The, yeah, it'll be interesting to see. People love series. They love characters. They can follow and all that good stuff. So, well, it's been interesting. Have you on anything more you want to promote before we go out? Well, I know that Welcome Holy Spirit is a very simple devotional booklet for, especially for Pentecost.

between the season between Easter and Pentecost, and it is something that I didn't know anything about. He was raised in the mainline church. No very little about the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit. And this is the light introduction. It would even work for young adults, as well as more mature adults. And I believe that this is something that, could be very valuable at that time of the year.

It sounds like dogs around in the background there. All right. Well, thank you very much. Give us your dot-coms, your social media. Where do you want people to follow you up with you on the interwebs here? I do have Facebook. As I said, we're working on the website. And that's about it at this point.

All right. When you get that website up, give us the link so we'll put on the Chris Foss show. So everyone can find it when they click the link and get ordered that. And folks, you can order up on Amazon wherever books are sold. That's the easiest way to find it. That's called Bushy Tail, The Curious Squirrel, out June 10, 2020 by Florence P. Bullis. Thanks to everyone for tuning in. Thank you for coming, Florence. We really appreciate it. Thank you.

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