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For author Susan Evans, "writing personal essays is a cathartic experience," one that does its job by "lightening my load." As you read this collection of essays-funny, tragic, cringey, nostalgic, wise, and occasionally whiny-you will feel your load lightening as well.You Have to Laugh: Riffs on Aging is for anyone in the latter half of life who agrees that while growing old can be terrifying, it can also be pretty funny­-that is, if you learn to look for the light in the dark."You don't have to laugh, of course, but once you start, it becomes a habit."

When Kevin Barry turned sixty, his internal alarm clock went off. It was time. Thirty-plus years after his previous cross-country road trips, afterthe demands of raising a family and a long legal career had worn low the tread on his psychological tires, he could no longer ignore the itch. So he took an extended leave from work, upgraded his camping gear, and hit the open road. For the next sixty-seven days, he and his beloved Subaru (a.k.a. Subi), with guidance from his GPS guardian angel (a.k.a. Sweetie), traveled 11,007 miles, music blaring, on a schedule meant to be modified by impulse and whimsy (or blinding rain). By keeping his snoot to the ground and his eyes and heart wide open, Barry finds his way to beautiful places and wonderful people in unsuspecting nooks and crannies across America. In Counterclockwise: A USA Road Trip, Barry takes readers along on adventures big and small, from nostalgic reunions with old friends to a canoe rescue on Michigan's Lower Platte River and a breathtaking bald eagle sighting in Alberton, Montana; from late-night chats with fellow campers to a desperate search for lodging in Las Vegas. Woven throughout is Barry's immense enjoyment of freedom on the road and his profound love for this magnificent, complicated nation.

Everything I Needed to Know is a small book, but a big shortcut to success-in the insurance industry or any commission-based sales position. Easy to read, entertaining, and inspiring. For those who are just starting out in their careers or those who are ready to go to the next level, this book offers a clear pathway to success. Each chapter provides a simple step-by-step guide to get where you want to go. A common-sense approach that offers amazing results!

Growing up in the small town of Grand Island, Nebraska, left Michael Monk with no shortage of stories to tell-stories he was more than happy to share when a friend approached him about writing a column for his high school's alumni newsletter. Collected here in A Distant Mirror Anthology, Monk's essays encompass a lifetime of memories, observations, experiences, and wisdom gained. Through reminiscences about the first day of school, a teacher who kindled a lifelong love of reading, and classic childhood hijinks, Monk captures the nostalgia of growing up in the Midwest in the 1960s. His later endeavors through life as a lawyer in Los Angeles and as a husband, parent, and grandparent have left him with plenty of witty observations, humorous anecdotes, and touching memories to share-not to mention good books to recommend. (Other literary treasures include an homage to Shakespeare and a rhyming ode to the class of 1967 that names every graduate.) Originally published between 2015 and 2022, these thirty-eight essays preserve a slice of time for anyone from Grand Island and beyond who wishes to take a look into A Distant Mirror.

Cerebral palsy is the most common physically disabling condition affecting school-age students. Why, then, are so many educators and parents confounded by the multiple and often interrelated aspects of this group of disorders? Using easy-to-follow, demystifying language, Educating Students with Cerebral Palsy details how the physical, medical, sensory, cognitive, and social-emotional elements of cerebral palsy impact learning-and therefore teaching-both at school and at home. Author Adine R. Usher, EdD, and her contributors emphasize the need for collaboration between educators and families, and they spotlight the voices of students and parents living with the hopes and challenges of cerebral palsy each day.

Earth, our home, is a heartfelt place. It's where we learn ways to be (in) love and to deal (with) heartbreak. What if we desired to practice more intentionally and compassionately? How might living feel if we attended to, cultivated, and perhaps dared to savor the ways we love through heartbreak? A book of (h)ours opens a space for you to contemplate these questions, and it illuminates the possibilities that can emerge if you are devoted to finding the answers.

What do a marigold, starlight over South Africa, and the birth of a child have in common?Every person, plant, and star springs up from information compounded by interaction.We are embedded in an ancient, intricate world. Changing combinations of atoms passthrough the long filter of history and natural law, to form planet Earth, whales, and ourown thoughts. Based on the growth of evidence explaining how the world is put together,we have become the first generation to have a narrative that unites electron motion toour breath, and that connects hydrogen fusion in the sun to the energy that powers ourown minds. We can describe how the proteins in our mitochondria pinch and place intoperfect position metal ions that were forged in exploding stars. We cohere for a moment,suspended between information, order, and transformation of all things.This book is a scientific and literary exploration of those discoveries that reveal ourdeepest identity. Through our urge to understand and communicate, we have uncoverednew meanings that infuse our days with wonder.

Written nearly two decades since Ellison's film-adapted book, Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey, LOOK BOTH WAYS offers a more mature, more contemplative look at life after the accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down at age eleven. Using personal and, at times, emotionally challenging events in her life as a platform, Ellison compels readers to reflect upon experiences in their own lives and thrive as a result of them. Exploring topics such as identity, ethics, inclusion, hope, and love as part autobiography and part sociological analysis, Ellison imparts universal truths fueled by the unrelenting spirit of one who refuses to be defined by a single event in her life, but rather chooses to be defined by all of them.

Cephalos was a very late patriarch within a well-arrived age of illustrious mythic personages. By this serialization in restoration of what Classical Greek Myth­ology has expunged of his robust youth, we have arrived at the apex of his covert and multifaceted subversion to destroy imperial Crete and its Great Minos. Cephalos has also finalized the formative coalition of small navies for two great sea battles-the Annihilations of 1365 attendant to two eradications of piracy the same spring. Next he must address the Second Tribute Taking forthcoming in 1360 BC while his powers so ruthless against Enemy are still undiscovered. He must suffer undeserved adversities. His successful marriage to High Princess Prokris is failing on account of her long-proven barrenness, a condition that makes their remarriage impossible. Worse still, the next Tribute Taking is brought forward by two years, thwarting his aspirations toward a Saronic Gulf Secession. Still, his next wipeout of Crete's western Imperial Far Fleets proceeds as covertly as possible. Coincidentally, his naval operations assume greater scope overseas from all three of his operational venues, particularly Brauron Cove. His naval genius there shall realize a second era of great oared vessels. But it brings upon him a long-postponed fate with attendant adversities. Our second continuing heroine, Skia of Aphidnai, is about to become the Panantaxia or High Sister of the Sanctuary, whereby her sudden declaration that she shall marry, as promised by Eos, her only choice of consort and husband to bear her children. Her intent to leave a life of abstinence is received with great joy, but also great mystery over her only choice. No suspense, however: We've long known that her affections have been reserved solely for Cephalos, the appointed hegemon of the Sanctuary. So the elite High Sisterhood and Sacral Elders muster to matchmake and cozen him to become the Harvest King of vernal equinox, whereby festivities to conjoin him to Skia via hierogamy, or sacral marriage. The consequences of her fertility and joy of two children, so rapidly conceived by Cephalos' siring, lead to the discovery of his virtual bigamy. Henceforth, a royal decree of renunciation of the hierogamy, a severe override of objections by Skia the Panantaxia and her High Sisters. This fifth book, Navarch and War Commodore, finishes its fictional content rendered proto-historically, by the academic expository fiction of New Greek Mythology. Its conclusion covers his last Saronic Gulf years, from 1362 through 1360 BC, and reverts at least emendation to surviving writ about him. It completes proofs of his fourfold ascendancy that shall eventually pit his orches­trations of great wealth and the abilities of maritime Greeks against imperial Crete of the wicked Great Minos and his loathsome son, the prince-Minotaur Asterion.