Tagebücher & Memoiren

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Two men in love. A world ready for change. THE WAY FROM ME TO US is the story of two pioneers. It's the true account of a love that began nearly 50 years ago in a Nashville gay bar called The Other Side. It was 1977, when coming out could mean you lost everything. Your job. Your friends. Your family. Mike and Ted were all too aware of the risks at the bar that night. It was literally a step to the other side for Mike, who was nowhere near as accepting of his true self as Ted was of his. "I like being gay," Ted told him. "I'd like to find somebody who likes being gay with me." Mike accepted the challenge. With no instruction manual, the two of them staked out a life together at a time when such things "just weren't done." Theirs is a story of two men battling the toughest challenges, some external, some that sprang from within. It's the story of the triumph of an undeniable love that has lasted nearly half a century. This uplifting memoir will move and inspire you. It's living proof that, no matter how vehemently the world works against it, love wins.

Life in a Bubble is about living a fairly secluded life that required dependence on God to get her through the challenges of day-to-day life that seemed to come one right after another. Some challenges came in her very young years when she realized the differences economically between herself and her family compared to others. Another even greater challenge came when she watched her mother, the one who was the glue that held the family together, die suddenly. Avie had just turned seventeen the month before, and because of her secluded lifestyle, she was really more like thirteen. Soon after, her elderly father checked himself into the VA hospital, thrusting her into an adult life head-on, trying to figure out how to survive on her own.After marriage and having a child within the same year and shortly after taking on the responsibility of her baby sister who was now a teenager was another hurdle for her. Then came dealing with the second child having migraines that started during his very early years. After having three normal vaginal deliveries, the fourth child required a cesarean section. Around age eleven, this child began having seizures, and life with epilepsy began. Challenges with that came having to care for that child and then as an adult and making decisions for and with her.The next big challenge came with caring for her husband of fifty-six years with end-stage congestive heart failure who became almost total care before his death. Then approximately three months following his death, after getting a booster injection, she herself developed symptoms of polymyalgia rheumatica and rheumatoid arthritis. Life itself is a challenge for anyone, but caring for others and hoping to make the right decisions could only be done by studying God's word for answers and lots and lots of prayer by herself and other prayer warriors.

Brian Miller's Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination--fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of homegrown food and handmade drink. It is also about pain, blood, deaths, mud, storms, droughts, and failures. The author, who owns a small East Tennessee farm, lives an ""antiquated life,"" that is, a life often out of sync with modernity and closely in sync with the natural world. His book is structured as a breviary broken into the eight monastic offices of the day. Written as a series of meditative notes, it follows his efforts to live with purpose and stewardship.Kayaking with Lambs is about learning to dwell alongside neighbors, nature, and even the planet as if it mattered. In language that is poetic and writing that is honest, insightful, poignant, wry, and self-deprecating, Miller ponders everything from the cycles of life to his family heritage to what Wes Jackson refers to as ""becoming native to this place."" And, of course, he shares the many times along his journey that he's found himself in situations totally unforeseen when he began . . . like kayaking with lambs.

Mr. William Pratt was born on June 17, 1954, and his journey through life was bittersweet.He feels like these songs and poems are and will stand up to the test of times. Some will make you happy, and some will make you cry, but most you with truth, love, and harmony. Even though he's a man, when he wrote these songs and poems, he felt like a giant, and all his songs and poems are as vast as the universe, and he hopes these songs make the weak and unhappy souls strong. He tossed in some fantasies, which we all need to escape from reality sometimes and the reader's natural high.So enjoy his songs and poems; they're like his mother's jambalaya--a little bit of everything in a bowl and spicy to complete.

Der Jenaer Zoologe Ernst Haeckel zählt zu den bedeutendsten, aber auch umstrittensten Naturwissenschaftlern des ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Als begeisterter Anhänger von Darwin arbeitete er an der Weiterführung und Popularisierung der Evolutionstheorie und wurde zu einer Symbolfigur in den Weltanschauungskämpfen seiner Zeit.Als Naturwissenschaftler und Hochschullehrer war Ernst Haeckel in ein sich beständig erweiterndes Netzwerk von durchaus nicht immer gleichgesinnten Naturforschern eingebunden. Der erste Band der Wissenschaftskorrespondenz enthält Briefe aus dem Zeitraum von April 1858 bis Oktober 1866 und umfasst das frühe wissenschaftliche Netzwerk Ernst Haeckels. Zu diesem gehören u.a. Charles Darwin, Anton Dohrn, Carl Gegenbaur, Thomas Henry Huxley, Albert Kölliker, Eduard von Martens und Max Schultze. Die Briefe dokumentieren Haeckels Karriereweg vom examinierten Mediziner bis zum ordentlichen Professor der Zoologie. Sie geben neben Einblicken in die Lebenswirklichkeit Haeckels und seiner Korrespondenzpartner Aufschluss über die Entstehungsgeschichte seiner Arbeiten über Radiolarien (1862), Medusen (1865) und seiner "Generellen Morphologie" (1866).

Jahrzehnte nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges beginnt Felizitas Puche ihre persönlichen Erlebnisse der Nachkriegszeit Revue passieren zu lassen. 1926 als Felizitas Reimann geboren und aufgewachsen in Glatz, nach einer unbeschwerten Jugend 1945 aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben und gestrandet in den Nachkriegswirren Westdeutschlands, musste Felizitas bereits in jungen Jahren viele Hindernisse überwinden. Ihre dabei gesammelten Erinnerungen und Erlebnisse zeichnen ein detailliertes Bild über das bemerkenswerte Schicksal einer jungen Frau, ihrer nie enden wollenden Stärke und über die systematische Vertreibung und Flucht ihrer deutschen Leidensgenoss*innen aus den ehemaligen Ostgebieten nach 1945. Felizitas Puche geb. Reimann nimmt uns mit in einen fast vergessenen Teil der deutschen Geschichte und zeigt uns hautnah, wie sich das Leben von Millionen von Menschen nach der deutschen Kriegsniederlage brutal veränderte und wie Gewalt, Willkür und Demütigungen Einzug in ihren Alltag hielten.

"A captivating, poignant, and transformative journey" -Fran Stedman¿Through her speaking and writing, Alice Scott-Ferguson's unique perspectives have encouraged countless women on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, in this delightful memoir, Alice for the first time gives details of her Shetland Island childhood under the Northern Lights, beside the ebb and flow of the sea, on the carefree sands, and within a crofter's cottage home. We follow her through challenges of Mainland schooling and boarding, then marriage, motherhood, ministry, and widowhood. We witness how her growing and evolving faith steadied her through turbulent tides and winds of change-currents that carried Alice to unexpected and undreamed-of adventures far from her native isles, to Ireland, England, Germany, and the United States. The experience and wisdom shared eloquently in this book shine light on the path of women young and old in the challenges they face today.

Have you ever been faced with a challenge that was as confusing as it was daunting? Or that required clear thinking and wise choices when you were overwhelmed and afraid? Close Contact: Memoir of a Determined Pandemic Cancer Survivor is Wendy Ormsby's account of being diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at the start of a pandemic and the events that followed: personally frightening news at a universally frightening time. If you or someone you care for is trying to navigate a similar path, this memoir will show by example how to get to the other side. Informative and illuminating, she's optimistic that her experience will shine a light of hope and help on your endeavor as today, she is healthy, happy, and excited to share all she has learned.

Life is a journey but that doesn't say enough, does it? In his book The Two Paths, Steven Fidler shares how, in a single night, his life shifted from graduating college with honors and a bright future, to unexpectedly losing his sight, altering his journey forever. With all future dreams lost, inability to find employment and impending poverty, coupled with the loss of connection to the world around him. Steven spiraled into anxiety, panic attacks, and self-destructive behaviors. The dark night of the soul does offer a light at the end of the tunnel, however, and it is this that Steven is offering whoever chooses to share this journey through his eyes.The Two Paths offers a humorous yet profound look at struggle and how all of life has patterns. We all go on our own unanticipated journeys in some way or another. That said, all of life is happening for our true benefit. For Steven, it was his blindness that taught him to see that ultimately there is only one single problem that we all share, and the solution to any problem is already built into every problem for each and every one of us. We just have to learn a new way to see.

ANN IS CONVINCED SHE IS A GOOD MOTHER until her teenage daughter admits to suicidal thoughts. In a desperateattempt to rescue her child, she gathers wisdom from therapy, the 12 Steps, and Buddhist teachings, yet she finds her greatest solace from an unlikely source: the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Connecting this ancient story to her experience as a traumatized mother, Ann is vindicated in her desire to save her child but also learns the secret to returning to herself. A memoir about honesty, compassion, and trust, Craving Spring explores the pain and beauty of mother-daughter bonds and celebrates the universal desire for renewal."A masterful storyteller, Ann Batchelder takes us deep into the heart of a mother's love while demonstrating the power of myth to illuminate a path toward healing. Craving Spring is a gift to anyone trying to navigate the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship."-Anita Johnston, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Eating in the Light of the Moon"Craving Spring is so deeply heartfelt that I felt it in my own heart, often pounding as I read-and yet I could not put it down."-Lynn Melnick, author of I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive:On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton"Ann Batchelder has expressed something extraordinary with relevance and profound teachings...Craving Spring is a story of triumph. I highly recommend it."-Tommy Rosen, founder of Recovery 2.0

It's November 22, 1963-JFK is assassinated, and ten-year-old Tim Stonecash learns that people don't live forever. Tim is the only child of a loving mom and dad, growing up in a small homogenous Midwestern town.Soon, the divisive, turbulent times of the decade touch Tim: the Vietnam War, civil rights, political assassinations, and the counterculture movement. Conflicted between doing what he knows is right and doing what is fun, easy, and exciting, Tim models both the good and the bad.He clings to friends of all sorts in his need to belong and in his search for freedom and identity. Tim's reckless and rebellious character takes the reader on a wild ride full of fast cars, confusion, sadness, and uncertainty. His story explores themes of race, freedom, belonging, and family. It demonstrates the power that all people wield in molding young people.His family travels reveal what a small, insular world he lives in. He becomes rebellious and rejects authority-but is held in check by his strict father. Tim yearns for freedom to seek out new friends and places that have more to offer than his home town. When his father dies, he becomes more than his mom can handle, running away to California and hooking up with a wild group of castoffs from the summer of love.How far will Tim go in his search, and what risks will he take?

Embarking on a life-altering decision on his wedding day, Andrew's journey is shadowed by a turbulent childhood due to his father's abandonment. Despite painful rejection, his mother and grandmother's unwavering love become his anchor. As life unfolds, he grapples with the fear of resembling his estranged father. Rejection's sting is just the beginning, leading to questions of whether Andrew deserves his fate. This authentic tale invites you to judge and offers a harrowing glimpse into a smiling façade masking profound pain - a story where clues abound, waiting to be discovered.

What was it like to search for fossilized remains back in the 1900s? While several advances have been made in the field of paleontology, a lot of the searching has remained much the same today. In his memoir, The Life of a Fossil Hunter, Charles H. Sternberg (1850-1943) provides us with a part scientific, part autobiography, and part adventure-like retelling of his discoveries, hardships, and close calls while searching and collecting fossils in the American West. A window into the life of an academic pioneer on the frontier.

This is a book that will hold the reader's attention from start to finish. It's a story of courage, determination, control, anger, jealousy, and love. Alma, the main protagonist, was injured during the Blitz in East London when half her house fell on top of the air-raid shelter also killing her father and her sister. That experience coloured the rest of her life. Alma and the family moved to Poplar ('Call the Midwife' country) in 1947. By 1951, they'd been re-housed to a Council House in Grundy Street where they stayed until 1981. East end life was important to them, but Alma always had aspirations to move back to Hornchurch in Essex and the surrounding areas where most of her family lived. George, Alma's husband, was born and bred in Poplar in the East End - a true Cockney. His attitude was, 'I'll leave the East End feet first!' However, his daughter Linda's medical needs meant that she could no longer climb the stairs after major back surgery. So they had to move and Alma's ambition was realised, but little did they know that Linda would eventually meet and fall in love with Ralph, and that despite her disabilities, she would get married and achieve great things with her husband.

HOW DID I GET HERE? I have been kidnapped, alone in a truck with a meth addict! Where is he taking me? What will he do to me when we get there? He is going to murder me! I have to get out of this truck! The door won't open; it won't unlock! What am I going to do? The Runaway is a fast-paced, intense true story of a drug-addicted runaway's journey from brokenness and defeat to new life and victory. Joy is a runaway teen, running from her family, the law, abuse, reality, and dangerous situations she continually finds herself in. When her choices bring her to the lowest she's ever been, is there anyone who can help her? Is there hope for someone like her?

Raymond D. Johnson spent 31 years as an investigator. First with two police departments in Washington State and then with two Fire Departments in Oregon and California. He has investigated several crimes and death investigations. Mr. Johnson spent some time assisting with the Green River Killer investigation and several murder investigations. Most of his career was as a fire investigator and over the span of 20 years he has participated in the investigation of over a thousand fires for their origin and cause. During his time with the Salem, Oregon fire department Mr. Johnson was part of a fifty-two member fire investigation team and was ultimately the president of the team for two years. Mr. Johnson has achieved two college degrees and was an adjunct instructor at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He was selected to be a guest speaker at the New York City fire investigation conference. Mr. Johnson is currently retired and living in Auburn, Washington.