Too Much is a raw and heartfelt memoir in which the author shows tremendous vulnerability through her recollection of life events and the challenges, growth and emotions tied to them. She shares some of her deepest secrets and most shameful moments, while highlighting the strength and resilience that led her to emerge from those dark times. Too Much takes you on the author's lifelong pursuit of finding love, happiness and peace within herself. It is gritty, honest and a little heartbreaking. There is no sugar-coating or PC rhetoric - only the simple concept of sharing her story so that others may learn from and relate to it.
Karen Martin has had so many experiences as a hospice nurse over twenty-five years that she arrived at a place where she knew she had to share what she's seen and learned about death with others. Everyone Dies reveals stories of love, hope, despair, joy, and sorrow. Some of the author's experiences are encouraging, some are happy, some are heartbreaking, but each one taught her as well as the patients and families she's cared for valuable lessons.. The book includes periodic poetry breaks to share how the author felt as she went through each of her experiences. Whether you just like real-life stories, have someone you love who is walking or walked the hospice journey, are a student nurse or further along in your journey of caring for people at the end of life, you'll agree that every day is a gift after reading this book. In caring for others, the author has received so much more than she's given. God has been at her side the entire way, and she gives Jesus all the glory.
This book is a true account of the facts of a health journey from 2015- 2018 and beyond now. I have added some anecdotes in it to make it special for my readers too. I love writing. A special hidden talent for me tonight. I encourage everyone to find that talent that one enjoys doing! Don't be stuck in a desk job that one hates. My thoughts from my desk of my tonight. WRITER Girlie is a name I came up with years ago on facebook. It suits me right; like write! I love being me and writing for a living. This story is about my vison of Love, hope, and happiness. I am a born hiker, skier, and dancer. Totally, love talking in public and getting to know people too. Wisconsin is what I call home to me. I work up there every write; every single time. "Writer Girlie."
Like many post-9/11 combat veterans, JT Blatty struggled to regain her sense of purpose in the first years returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2018, a chance encounter brought her to Ukraine, drawn in by the familiarity of war and those who serve in wars. Over five years, JT captured the oral history and portraits of a tribe of revolutionaries, the Donbas volunteer soldiers. As she embedded with them on the front line in bunkers and forests, and in Kyiv flats, JT's story began to blend with theirs in a universal bond of combat veterans. The love of a soldier and an entire veteran community compelled her to stay as a new war began.
The life of Harry Morris was a classic 'rags to riches' tale: an East End Jewish barrow boy who became a feted nightclub operator in Knightsbridge and Mayfair. But there was a price to pay - his drive to transcend humble roots and a devastating early illness came at the cost of much myth-making and a family schism.Now, in 1963, as Harry makes a swansong cruise around the world with his mistress on a 'millionaire's yacht', the Caronia, his mask starts to slip. Each port of call brings back fresh memories and challenging revelations.Taking advantage of the crumbling of Harry's facade, Daniel Gardner tries to separate fact from fiction and understand why his glamorous but enigmatic grandfather disowned his heritage. It becomes a journey that will take him all the way back to the ancestral village in Poland and a universal story of emigration and reinvention. And in the process will he be able to help put the splintered ends of the family tree back together again?
Like so many others who served in World War II, Leon Granacki was an ordinary guy from a working-class immigrant family drafted into the US Army and thrust into the horrors of war in the South Pacific. But through sheer luck and pluck, he leveraged his art talents to survive and thrive, catapulting himself from private infantryman to Master Sergeant and mapmaker for General McArthur in the Americal Division's Intelligence section. Inspired by the Southern Cross as his troop transport crossed the equator, he designed the Americal Division patch for the Army's only named division, created in New Caledonia. Overseas for three-and-a-half years without any stateside furlough, he labored over maps of enemy positions in a primitive tent in the steamy, mosquito-infested jungles of Guadalcanal and Bougainville. In An Artist Goes to War, author Victoria Ann Granacki paints a portrait of her father, Leon, through his original maps, jungle watercolors, journal illustrations, scrapbook photos, and letters home to "Dear Gang"-his extended Polish American family crowded together in a Chicago "six-flat" apartment building. Despite only slyly alluding to awful conditions to evade the censors' scissors, his indomitable optimism always comes through. The Polish-language letters directed to his beloved parents are filled with childlike tenderness as he tries to reassure them he'll be safe. His plaintive longings for family, holidays home, fishing, and a woman to love are poignant reminders of the personal effects of war on reluctant soldiers.
This is the story of Sheku Gibril Kamara from his childhood days in Sierra Leone. It deals first with his parents in the capital, Freetown, and then with his aunt's family in the rural countryside. Educated in Freetown, he gained employment as an accounting assistant in the colonial Daily Mail newspaper in his home town and later at the iron ore mining company in nearby Lunsar, a job he relinquished to pursue his dreams of higher studies in Britain. With great finesse, Sheku provides intimate details about life as a private student in London and the political wrangling among fellow Sierra Leonean students. This culminated in the temporary seizure of the country's high commission at Portland Place in London in 1972 after a mass demonstration. Sheku and his colleagues were sent to the Old Bailey on a charge of treason but were instead found guilty of trespass. On appeal, the House of Lords reached the landmark judgment in British law: a case for trespass cannot hold where the national of a country occupies his country's diplomatic mission since that territory is, after all, deemed to be his home ground. Defended by Sir Dinglefoot, the students were bound to peace for six months... Upon the establishment of Sierra Leone's state-owned insurance company, Sheku was encouraged to return home to help develop the nation's market. When he became the Company's first indigenous chief executive, Sheku was to traverse the gruelling events that accompanied his role in top management. In what follows, the reader will join him in enjoying the exciting experiences with his supervising authorities...
This book Beyond Destiny volume 2 is a tale of Era when an immigrant female came to USA alone to join her husband who was residing in New York. It is a story, that vividly takes one to the past and present Era of changing world.
Have you ever wondered who you are and why you're here? There are many who question who they are in the world, thrown into a whirlwind of confusion without warning. Carmen Seguinot Matos was one of those people who questioned her identity with good reason. We are born. We live our lives based on what is given to us starting from birth through to adulthood. It could be prosperous, good, fair, bad, or horrible. If you think about the great uncertainty that surrounds us when we are born, you must admit there should be a manual to guide newborns into a successful life. Our parents should have a goal for us that will lead to victory. It's a good thing there is such a manual: the Bible, God's infinite Word. The goal all parents should have is for their children to have hearts for Jesus and live victorious lives into adulthood. God uses a variety of different ways to help us become strong, vital servants of Jesus Christ. Instead of shrinking back in the face of the struggles and challenges of this world, let's look up to the Lord and seek His strength, plan, and purpose. Come and let Carmen tell you a little bit about herself; you may have more in common than you would have imagined.
A young mother is left alone with her two young children for a week while a serial killer hunts in her community. In a near panic, she prays to God, whose existence she thinks questionable, issuing him an ultimatum: prove You exist. He does. This is her true story.
Crippled by deformed hips as a child, Mark Richard was told he would spend his adult life in a wheelchair. The son of an unpredictable, violent father and a mother who sought inner peace through scripture, Richard spent his bedridden childhood in the company of books. As a young man, he set out to experience as much of the world as possible before his hips failed him. He spent years doing odd jobs and getting into trouble, grappling throughout with his faith and his calling, before winning a national fiction contest and launching an extraordinary writing career. In this irresistible blend of history, travelogue, and personal reflection, Richard draws a remarkable portrait of a writer's struggle with his faith, the evolution of his art, and the recognition of one's singularity in the face of painful disability.
Bob Schieffer started his reporting career in Texas when he was barely old enough to buy a beer, joined CBS News in 1969, and became one of the few correspondents ever to have covered all four major Washington beats: the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Capitol Hill. Over the past four decades, he's seen it all-and now he's sharing the after-hours tales only his colleagues know.
As a lifelong prayer pilgrim, Teena Ferrara has written The Winnowing from the depths of her soul out of her passionate love for Jesus. These reflections flow from her rich walk with the Lord and the intimacy of being present with Him every day.This book will take readers to a place few would willingly dare to go, venturing through a sudden and unexpected dark-night-of-the-soul experience, loss, and trauma. What unfolds is a raw search for God in the midst of a muddle of emotional, physical, and spiritual pain.
Imagine seeing the beauty of an outback sunrise or sunset, native desert animals doing what they do: scaring the hell out of you! While you are reading the yarns I have lived. The desert and the traditional Aboriginal people who live there won my respect and heart. The native animals were delightful to observe in their natural habitat. My favourites are the wedge tail eagles, who fly majestically in the sky, and the emus. The emu has it down pat! The female lays the eggs, and the male takes over from there with the incubating and raising the chicks. Have fun reading my yarns.
The stories in this book are about a man who was born on an unknown date in the wilderness of a countryside in the continent of Africa. When he was a boy, he struggled to come and live in his country's capital city. After seeing some children of his age going to school, he strived to find education for himself with minimal help from some relatives. After a long adventurous life with awkward, complicated education and rough work experiences, followed by a disheartening civil war exposure in his country, he ended up working with a British school in England. Then, he started to educate a rainbow of multicultural children from all over the world, to build their future in Britain. He also helped the school to interpret four foreign languages and his own mother's language. He then assisted the school to build a bridge between the culture gap of the communities and the school. These adventurous stories are interesting and are real inspiration to anyone who would like to know how disadvantaged people can be successful and helpful to others. The stories in this book are powerful and moving memoirs. They show some incredibly emotive experiences. They reveal how the writer has tackled some difficult incidents that are all true. He tells the stories in an honest way. The stories are emotional, and unforgettable. They show how the writer dealt with a span of cultures despite being an outsider. So, dive in and find out how all these adventurous stories happened. One thing is for sure, you will enjoy reading them to the end.
For nearly 100 years, from after the Civil War to the 1960s when two federal judges took charge, Arkansas prisons were torture chambers. Brutal prisoners doing time for murder and other extraordinarily violent crimes regularly held positions of authority. Their supervisors included convict trustees and sadistic prison authorities. They starved and beat men and women prisoners, sometimes to death, and often for amusement. Politicians and their cronies did nothing because corruption and graft benefited them. This book graphically describes the horror and those who endured it. It pulls together previously published firsthand accounts from two prisoners, an Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division Report, and two major legal opinions related to complaints of unconstitutionality in Arkansas prisons.
This is a companion volume to the author's 2021 travel reminiscence, A PLAY OF INFINITE FORMS. Although Tom Weil didn't consult his Journal before writing that book, many of the entries include themes, ideas and conclusions contained in the reminiscence. In that way the two books are related, but at the same time quite distinct. While A PLAY OF INFINITE FORMS deals with the author's wide-ranging travels over the last half century, the Journal consists of home-based thoughts over the same 50-year period on a wide range of topics rather than on places.The good-natured and often humorous book covers a vast variety of stimulating observations and ideas-some of them rather eccentric or even quirky-which will inspire readers to view the world in novel ways. Those who read the piquant and quite digestible food-for-thought served in A FORM OF INFINITE PLAY will perceive their way of being with new perspectives, many of which occurred to the author when he was doing hand-stands and saw things upside down. From the usual and the visible Weil extracts some unusual, subtle and less obvious conclusions.
Inspired by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's book Wild America, recent high school graduate M. Ralph Browning embarked on a tightly budgeted, year-long trip in the US looking for birds. The year was 1962. His 1955 VW Beetle broke after nine months, which forced a premature end to the journey. In 2005, after matters of military duty, college, a family, and a career in birds at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the author resumed the interrupted trip. This time, he was with the girl he'd left behind in 1962, and they birded Texas, the Southwest, and California. The author chronicles the trip with observations on birds while touching on history, geology, and conservation. The cost of keeping alive includes periodic notes on the price of gasoline (about $0.33/gallon in 1962) and food. The author had earlier written to numerous birders for information about birding particular locations, and many of those individuals across the country showed him birds and invited him into their homes for a gratefully appreciated warm bed and home cooking. The 2005 leg of the journey was assisted by bird finding guides and the help of the legendary Jon Dunn and numerous motels.
Embark on an intimate journey of self-discovery in Midlife Marvels, as Kim Metzger unveils her transformative quest through the intricate dance of menopause, retirement, and the empty nest. Witness her first steps into this uncharted terrain in 2016, peeling back layers of deferred emotions from her roles as a teacher, wife, and mother. This narrative candidly dissects the challenges posed by aging and mortality.Midlife Marvels transcends memoir, emerging as a guide through the maze of midlife complexities. Explore how the author copes with the intricate web of emotions and the seemingly boundless stretches of time during this profound period. The manuscript unveils meticulously examined "Aha" moments, born of introspection fueled by journaling, drawing parallels between the landscapes of retirement and the empty nest.The author's journey becomes a mirror reflecting the reader's transformative possibilities. As the final pages turn, find solace and guidance in a comprehensive compilation of treatments and solutions tailored to ease the challenges of transition. "Midlife Marvels" stands as a beacon, offering a roadmap for women navigating this intricate juncture, promising a path illuminated by shared wisdom and resilience.
Aus dem Vorwort von Irene Gill:Olga Hempel - Eine lebendige Stimme aus der VergangenheitMeine Großmutter Olga Hempel (geb. Fajans, 1869-1954) - allgemein Frau Doktor genannt - war klein, rundlich und trug schwarz. Von der Seite sah sie wie ein großes B aus. Ihr silbernes Haar war in einen kleinen Dutt oben auf ihrem Kopf zusammengerafft. Sie hatte große, intelligente grau-blaue Augen, die mich aufmerksam über ihre Brille anschauten. Sie stand auf dem kleinen Hügel und schwang ihren Regenschirm im Kreis über die grüne Landschaft und sang in einer tiefen, warmen Stimme:O Täler weit, o HöhenDu schöner, grüner WaldDu meiner Lust und WehenAndächt¿ger Aufenthalt.Später machte sie mich auf eine Lerche aufmerksam, die singend im Kreise aufwärts flog. "Wenn du dich dreimal umdrehst", sagte sie, "wirst du sie nicht mehr sehen können - nur hören, so weit fliegt sie hinauf!" Ich drehte mich gehorsam um, und siehe da: Sie hatte recht! Es war mir klar, dass meine Großmutter allwissend war.Sie hatte ihre Riten. Jeden Abend mussten wir Stuhl, Tischchen, Decke, Bücher, Schreibsachen und Lesebrille an eine freie Stelle an der Hecke hinter dem Häuschen tragen. Da ließ sie sich dann nieder, um den Sonnenuntergang zu sehen, - falls es langweilig wurde, konnte sie lesen oder Briefe schreiben. Sie hatte immer etwas zu schreiben.Das war wohl im Jahre 1938 in Dänemark, als ich etwa fünf Jahre alt war. Wir waren wegen Hitler schon 1936 aus Deutschland ausgewandert. Davor hatten wir - meine Mutter, meine älteren Geschwister und ich - bei Großmutter Olga in Güntersthal bei Freiburg gewohnt. Dort bin ich geboren; Oma spielte in den ersten drei Jahren meines Lebens eine ebenso große Rolle wie meine Mutter. Mein Vater war abwesend...Nach dem Besuch bei uns in Dänemark fuhr sie nach Persien. Wir gelangten 1939 nach England, und während des Krieges bekamen wir Briefe und Pakete von Oma Olga. Erst nach dem Krieg sah ich sie wieder: Sie besuchte uns auf ihrer Reise nach Amerika. Danach sah ich sie nie wieder. Aber dank ihrer vielen Briefe (ich habe einen Schuhkarton voller Briefe, auch solche, die sie in den 1920er Jahren an meine Mutter schrieb) und der drei schwarzen Hefte, in denen sie ihre Lebenserinnerungen aufschrieb (und auch dank der Erzählungen meiner Mutter) kenne ich sie, ihr Leben, ihre Umgebung, ihre Anschauungen und ihre ganze Persönlichkeit sehr gut.Sie hatte einen erstaunlichen Mut. Sie setzte sich durch; sie studierte Medizin.
A MEMOIR OF LEADERSHIP, IMPACT & FAITHGrowing up among sports royalty in Boulder, Colorado, Bill Lam was taught one mantra: compete hard and win. He excelled as a star wrestler at the University of Oklahoma, adopting the "three periods of a champion" ethos-talent, hard work, and heart-instilled by his coach. For thirty years, he molded champions as head wrestling coach at the University of North Carolina, transforming the program into a national force.Lam played as hard as he worked, earning a reputation for more than just wins. He himself had to journey through the three periods of a champion, maturing in the process. And at the height of his success, a wake-up call forced him to confront life's "overtime."In Overtime: The Three Periods of a Champion and What Comes After, readers enter the competitive world of college sports and witness one man's evolution through life's tough lessons, as he fights to emerge a better person on the other side.
Unmittelbar nach dem Terroranschlag der Hamas auf Israel beginnen Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Ofer Waldman eine Korrespondenz über eine erschütterte Welt - die Welt nach dem 7. Oktober. In Briefen und Chats, mit Gedichten und Musik, die sie einander schicken, versuchen sich die beiden Autor:innen an einer Beschreibung und Benennung dessen, was sie gerade sehen und erleben - jenseits des tagespolitischen Geschehens. Ofer Waldman erzählt von seinem Alltag in Israel. Er sitzt Shiva, unterhält sich mit seinen Kindern, geht auf Mahnwachen, hört auf die Klänge des Nahost-Krieges. Sasha Marianna Salzmann verdichtet ihre Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen in unterschiedlichen Städten Mitteleuropas. Sie sitzt am Mahnmal für die ermordeten Jüdinnen und Juden an der Donau in Budapest, streitet sich in Wiener Kaffeehäusern und schaut dem Blaulicht der Polizeikonvois am Berliner Hermannplatz zu. Was ist noch übrig von alten Gewissheiten nach dem 7. Oktober, was hat Bestand im Strudel der Meinungen, Behauptungen und Positionierungen? Und was scheint in der Folge des Nahostkonfliktes und des furchtbaren Krieges im Nahen Osten unwiederbringlich verloren? Im Versuch, sich diesen Fragen erzählerisch zu nähern, entsteht ein Dialog, der immer mehr zum berührenden Dokument einer Freundschaft wird: Ich sehe dich, sagen diese Briefe, ich kann nichts tun, aber ich bin da. »Du schreibst meinen Namen, und die Zeit verklebt sich, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Die Zukunft, in die wir schauen, wird zum Spiegel. Ein Trost, immerhin: Ich sehe dich darin.« Ofer Waldman an Sasha Marianna Salzmann, 22. Oktober 2023
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