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When her husband's health began its serious decline after open heart surgery, Linda Moran was prepared to support him through a challenging recovery that included a stroke and speech aphasia. But as Dean pinballed from one medical crisis to another, the couple encountered unexpected obstacles from the medical/healthcare system itself. Ultimately nine specialists in Dean's care either didn't keep them informed of new protocols, or the doctors didn't communicate with each other, leading to contradictory care instructions.After two years of chaos, Dean received a referral for hospice care-which meant that he wasn't expected to live for more than six months. Though the prognosis was devastating, hospice brought many surprising benefits: Help navigating a broken system. Spiritual counseling. The freedom to be fully present in life. And an opportunity to make Dean's remaining time what he wanted it to be.Filled with intimate personal stories, as well as practical checklists for those facing a similar journey, The Perks of Hospice shows us how the end of life can be so much more than an ending.Married for almost forty-five years, Dean and Linda Moran did everything together, especially in their two decades as fiber artists, experimenting with an ancient paper process on fabric. Their art provided a needed respite from medical reality and helped them create a lasting legacy at the end of their lives together.

Forget what you might think about outlaws, Broccoli Bob and his friends are the good guys, nutritionally and otherwise. When trouble starts brewing in the Broccoli Patch, Bob heads for Vegeville to seek the help of the other Organic Outlaws. Along the way, you'll meet Carrot Cassidy, Psychic Celery, and a host of others in this fun-filled vegetable western.Author Karyn Drum struggled to raise her three children organically back in the day when organic vegetables were hard to find. That, along with her southwestern roots and love for all things silly, combined to create the Organic Outlaws. Now an elementary art teacher, she has found her true calling celebrating children's imaginations in many interesting and entertaining ways. She lives with her mad scientist husband and beautiful daughters in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Dave is a nineteen-year-old helpless romantic who fantasizes about landing the girl of his dreams. As his plans fail, he finds himself in jail facing a felony and must head home to Sunnyslope. Dreading being back, Dave is approached by an old friend who attempts to convince him to stay and join a gang. Desperate to avoid gang affiliation, Dave takes a job offered by an incarcerated individual. Will he ever get free from the curse of Sunnyslope? Or is his redemption connected to the very thing he's trying to run away from?

This is an award-winning story about family, adoption, heritage, and identity. It is also about place and people. Haralambie invites you to accompany her on her search for her biological roots, the hurdles and misdirections, and what happens when she finally finds out who her biological family members are. Every adoption search and reunion are different. The results, and how each adoptee deals with them, are also different. But everyone who has been touched by adoption, whether directly or through friends, professional clients, or patients-can learn from others' experiences. Haralambie's journey will intrigue readers and may make them laugh and cry. It will surely get them thinking about their own identity and heritage. Her message for readers is to approach the quest with kindness and understanding. Gold Award in the Literary Titans Book Awards 2023

Author Rico Chamblain is a 27-year military veteran of an era spanning the outer edges of the Ho Chi Minh itty-bitty foot-stumpers to the suicidal cave dwarfs of the Taliban. Rico Chamblain, a creative writing graduate of the University of Arizona, has sprung forth a believable yet fictious autobiography that has captured the Black American military experience, the upward rising of UMM-GOWHA Black Power from the mid-fiddies America voiced within the poetic ritmo of an original language created by newly freed Blacks living the promised life along the Carolinas and Georgia shoreline islets. It is dubbed the Gullah language that be beautifully enriched sound-bites of Creole, Caribbean, English with African a'banging the step to your ear-drums. OG folk gonna holla "dat fool be talking geechee." Unk' Zeke's Pond be a keeping it real the oral tradition of Black history not to be confused with his-po'dunk lying-story. Unk' Zeke's Pond be a great read to crest the fo'reallies truth of Juneteenth, dem Collard-greens as swell a footpath to shedding the p-funk of inner-city dwellings that will leave ya' hungering for a straight-up Come here, Baby and talk Geechee to me!

As we go about our daily lives, we create stories, weave poems, make magical moments, at times without realizing it. Some moments in time are worth revisiting while others are better left unexplored. However, those could be the ones that need further scrutiny and may hide deeper, more important themes in life. Our stories are like peering through an old-fashioned kaleidoscope, reflecting images of bits of colored glass constantly shifting, changing, creating new designs and patterns. Our memories are kaleidoscopes. Our stories are kaleidoscopes. Our lives are kaleidoscopes. So, what's your story? Use the prompts after each story or poem to journal your story as you make your way through life. Our journey is not yet over.

Sylvia Tello is the kind of person who spreads joy wherever she goes. Compassionate and empathetic, she has a knack for helping those in pain find a path to healing. But three years after the death of her husband, Rolando, she's consumed by grief, unable to attain the peace of mind she's provided for so many others.When Sylvia travels to Sint Maarten to capture the life-long dream she had with her husband, the serene beauty of the island only reminds her of what she's lost. But her focus soon shifts when she meets Sarah Sandoval, a bright, ambitious young widow whose sorrow mirrors her own. In the next four days, they begin a journey with the courage to share secrets, dreams, memories, entering the darkness of what they wanted to forget, now becoming the light of what they need to understand. Asking both the living and the dead: will the endless longing for what was ever be the vision for what can become? In turns heartbreaking and hopeful, Four Days explores a love that remains in the deepest corner of each person's heart, where embers of that love are the moments that continue to surface, reminding us that in order to move forward, we must return to where it all began.

When staying with prajna paramita, the bodhisattva-path practitioners will also absorb all superior virtuous dharmas. Owing to nonattainment, learners will be relieved from attachment and self-conceit and become humble, and their powers for removing vexations, hindrances, coverings, and bondages will also be strengthened. That is what is meant by expedient skillfulness in cultivating prajna paramita.The importance of the bodhisattvas becomes significant during the times when Thus-Comers are not present. Given that circumstance, the bodhisattvas are the only ones who can teach sentient beings correct dharma expediently and skillfully. Both great bodhisattvas and expedient skillfulness come out of prajna paramita. Because the great bodhisattvas have achieved expedient skillfulness, they are able to really practice virtuous dharmas, attain superior benefits, assist the sentient beings to mature, and dignify and purify the Buddha lands.

Death, a benevolent creature, saunters through the landscapes herein, portending little terrors that creep up on you in these microtales.Mr. Lord, returning in "Mr. Lord Again," addresses another generation-old evil. "The Bag" and "Career Change" demonstrate how social justice can be quick, loud, and final, making horror a force for positive.The self-analysis in "Misdirection" makes you question the usefulness of your therapy sessions, while vampirism, freshly explained, presents itself in "Takers" and "Leave Nothing" for your edification.Wronged innocents correcting their own personal tragedies, lifestyles unimaginable to the average adult, multiple pasts impinging on our present -- all are for the amusement of some, the screams of others.Enjoy.

These are stories that a very old man remembers. They could not have happened to anyone else.Professor Alain Corcos is a native of France. He came to the United States twice -- first as a member of the French Air Force in November 1944 after escaping from Vichy France three months before D-Day. He came back to the States as a student earning a PhD in plant breeding and taught the nature and philosophy of science for twenty-six years at Michigan State University. He has written many scientific articles and three books published by university presses: The Myth of Human Races, The Myth of the Jewish Race, and Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids, which, years after its publication, became a very important contribution to the history of science. Professor Corcos is also the author of The Little Yellow Train (the story of his escape from France during World War II) and six other books, including The Folly of War.

Like most children, Jayden loves animals and wonders whether she is an animal too. In Mommy, Am I Your Baby Dragon? Jayden learns that even though she is not an animal, she is like them in many ways. This book teaches young children the names of common animals (and one mythological creature!) through entertaining illustrations and verses while improving their listening skills along the way.

If you walk long enough in the woods, you'll be introduced to your family. For we all have but one mother, Earth.In Monroe County Deer Hunts: Why the Good Old Methods Are Best, author Keith Francis Organ hearkens back to the hunting stories of his youth and shows how hunting has evolved over the past sixty years into a technological game with little respect for animal or environment.When Organ was young, hunters didn't use trail cameras, tree stands, or feeding stations. Hunting was a man's sport, and hunters had to learn the signs of deer to succeed. They had to learn to think like a deer to bag a buck, and they had to consider the cover a deer would prefer in different weather conditions as they studied the woods and weather, not the deer. Doe tags were never issued, and smaller bucks were healthier than some of the giants taken today. Experienced hunters were like lions, stalking prey while wearing velvet moccasins. All wildland was open to hunters, which provided ample space to explore nature. It was a classroom where the older hunters could teach the younger about the hidden secrets of their prey.Monroe County Deer Hunts recalls the spirit of adventure that awaited every hunt, a time when no two hunts were ever the same.

After decades of service, the time has come for Jill to retire. Choosing to tuck herself away in a sleepy suburb -- what could possibly go wrong? Jill's lethal instincts, which made her one of the most sought-after government assets, won't let her slip into the quiet life that easily. Her past keeps creeping into her present, making it difficult for her to settle into a life of garden lunches and knitting clubs.The Shady Oaks Division follows Jill through the trials and tribulations of retirement as she struggles to fit into her new role. Her paranoia, fueled by her sharp instincts, threatens to upend her. But is it just paranoia? Or are they forgetting that her training and expertise are what made her their number-one asset to begin with? Will Jackson, the agent assigned to Jill, be able to keep her from disturbing the picturesque town she's moved into? His own colorful past allows him to connect with her, and he works tirelessly to keep her on track. But will it be enough, or will it complicate matters further?

The Sutra of Explaining the Profound Secret provides the theoretical foundations of Yogacara Buddhism with Sakyamuni Buddha's teachings on mind consciousness, the ultimate meanings of knowledge, the selflessness of the names and concepts, the natures of existent beings, the yoga path of samatha and vipasyana, the ten stages of bodhisattva and the ten paramitas, and the exquisite and superior things the Thus-Comers have fulfilled. This sutra serves as the cornerstone for building the Buddhist epistemology, philosophy of the mind, and the pedagogy for bodhisattva education, and contributes to the establishment of the status of Yogacara school in the great-vehicle Buddhism.

Jerry Granahan, a paranormal enthusiast, receives an intriguing invitation in the mail. He convinces his friend Miller Byrne, a man dealing with his own demons, they should attend the gathering. Together they travel to an isolated Tennessee mountain town and join a small group of other attendees. It is Josiah Alden, a mysterious philanthropist, who has invited the group with a challenging proposition. Would they be willing to spend All Hallows Eve night in a local enclave reputedly haunted by the ghosts of executed Confederate soldiers? If they accept the terms of his offer and can make it through until sunrise, they will each receive equal shares of a cache of his money. Once they enter a forgotten park beside an old burial ground and darkness descends on the group, strange occurrences begin. The horrors that soon follow trap Jerry and Miller in a terrifying world of the undead that tests the limits of their sanity as they find themselves struggling to survive a nightmare they can no longer escape.

Nothing prepared Liz, the academic scientist (with a background in Australia and UK) for Linda, the quick-witted eighth-grade dropout from Texas excelling in malapropisms and outlandish jokes. Linda was still married and Liz a grieving widow. How could they sustain a relationship when they had such different personalities, backgrounds, and interests? But despite obvious incompatibilities, their chemistry was undeniable, and the extraordinary contrast was exciting for both of them.Over time, each of them enthusiastically engaged the other in different pursuits and each of them bonded over the novelties. They introduced each other to their favorite entertainments, with mixed results (Linda found opera boring; Liz cheered for the wrong team at a University of Arizona basketball game). Linda's jokes kept them constantly alive to humor that offset the complexities of the lives they led when they were apart. But slowly, their shared love of nature, carefree RV trips, and travel abroad (with the help of antianxiety meds for Linda's first time on a plane), brought them ever closer. Maybe, they realized, they were more alike than they thought, as each pondered their love of being rebels. Maybe their differences were to be celebrated rather than overcome.With humor and heart, Across the Divide: The Strangest Love Affair reveals how possibilities unfold when we open ourselves to unlikely opportunities.

This is the story of John Niven, founder of Purity Stores -- a chain of grocery stores across California as far south as Fresno and as far north as Yreka. Established in the San Francisco area in 1925, this chain operated most of its stores along the Pacific coastline, many of them in small towns. In John Niven, explore John Niven's career as he starts with Van Camp Packing Company. From there, he joins Cummins Engines with notable businessmen Clessie Cummins, William G. Irwin, and A. D. Lasker, before founding Purity Stores. Author John David Noll, a grandson of John Niven, traces the history of this successful businessman through newspaper articles, correspondence, and family chronicles as John faces challenges from the Great Depression, World War II, warehouse strikes, price wars, unions, and expansion pressures from competitors.

The Compendium of American English Grammar: For Advanced ESL Speakers is an easy-to-use grammar reference book for nonnative English speakers who have progressed beyond the classroom. Topics include:definite and indefinite articlesnoun categoriestwelve official verb tensestwo unofficial verb tensesgerunds and infinitivesstative verbsphrasal verbscorrect placement of adverbsnegationquestion formationindividual function wordsstandard numbers and shortcutsformal and informal languagemistakes that native speakers makepronunciation and grammarand much moreFilled with examples and detailed explanations of the trickiest sentence patterns, The Compendium of American English Grammar is the ideal book for students, business executives, new and longtime US residents, and others who want to perfect their English skills.

Rebecca Pilums is a flapper with a shady past and a low bank balance. She hopes circumstances will improve for her and Edward, her ne'er-do-well husband, after her mother dies under mysterious circumstances -- but the entire estate goes to Stephanie, her annoyingly devout sister.Detective Charles East is a widower who's been hired to provide security for Stephanie's family. He believes he's finally found a path to healing when he meets Jessica, their maid -- but Jessica isn't as sweet and innocent as she lets on.When tragedy strikes and hidden truths come to light, they each face a choice. Will they fall prey to old, destructive habits? Or will they open their hearts to the grace that's been available to them all along?

Michigan Time Capsule (2023) is a nonfiction collection of sixty-two of my best Fornology.com blog posts written between 2012 and 2022. The original posts were revised for inclusion in this collection, which is a sequel to my last book Detroit Time Capsule (2022).Most chapters cover Michigan people and places, some famous and others infamous. Other chapters have a broader scope but deserve to be in a "best of" collection. This anthology can be read cover to cover, or each chapter can be read independently with no narrative thread binding one to the other.

When Milo Ryder seeks to expand his cattle operation, he hears about a ranch for sale in the San Luis Valley called the T Bar Ranch. The ranch is owned by the bank after being raided by a band of Indians who killed the original owner and his family. After Milo decides to buy the ranch, he discovers an outlaw named Ike Evens squatting on the property and running the ranch as if he owns it. Milo will have to force Ike to leave, but what will be the repercussions? Will Ike be satisfied to keep his fight man-to-man with Milo? Or will he target all that Milo holds dear -- his wife and his home spread at Purgatoire?

When Nathan Bruno died of an overdose at twenty-two, his struggle with depression and addiction came to an end. Now the struggle belonged to those who'd known him. What would they do with their overwhelming love for a bright, beautiful soul who was no longer there?In Nathan: Love, Remembrance, and a Grandmother's Journey Through Grief, Carole Bruno lives her way to the answers. While not shying away from the moments of heartbreak that accompany such a great loss, she moves from bereavement to acceptance and beyond by writing, talking to God, spending time with great-granddaughter Marli, and finding a new way to love Nathan -- whose spirit remains an endless source of comfort.Heartwarming and hopeful, Nathan reminds us that even in our darkest times, it's possible to connect to the things that bring us joy.

Follow a sleepy cloud as he learns about kindness, and how it can grow from an act as small as planting a seed. About the AuthorLilian Snider is a high school senior, who is a passionate artist, creative writer, kindness enthusiast, and social activist. For more by Lily, check out liliansnider.com.

Human existence is complicated. Though we face adversity in its many forms, we also encounter beauty and mercy, love and joy. Thoughtful Expressions explores a variety of phenomena that all of us ponder while engaging with the rigors and blessings of everyday life. Reflecting on topics from the nature of the soul to the corrupting influence of power to the promise of salvation, William Johnson invites us to examine our own experiences through a different lens than we're accustomed to.Every step of our journey is a gift. What happens to our outlook when the road becomes rocky depends on whether we can maintain a sense of gratitude. With wisdom and humor, Johnson's thought-provoking essays encourage us to roll with the punches and see the good in all things.