A Bit of Spirit and a lot of Spit is the emotional and empowering true story from Anna Mae, sharing with you her life experiences of love affairs, life observations and personal loss. Told from the heart, through a unique blend of prose and poetry, A Bit of Spirit and a lot of Spit was born from popular demand, after a successful poetry roadshow for charity in 2009. Her poems provoked both tears and laughter, in celebration and commemoration of her late son’s 30th birthday. Within these pages lies the story between the poems.
A Dawn of Promise tells the story of a young Danish girl who travels from Copenhagen, Denmark to St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies with her mother and brother. Her father is right hand man to Governor Peter Von Scholten who is struggling to maintain a peaceful existence though the winds of freedom for the slaves are swirling in the Caribbean and threatening the plantation society. Karen befriends Makeda, a servant girl of her age and becomes caught up in the events which lead to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1848 and the freeing of the slaves in the Danish West Indies. Karen finds herself torn between her loyalty to her Danish heritage and her new found love and respect for the slave population in their quest for freedom.
SMALL TOWN BOY is the story of growing up in the small towns of Bayfi eld, WI and Ovid, Michigan in the 1930s and 1940s, told through a series of stories about the towns and their people, as lived by Robert, and told to Anna Mae.
Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation’s violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood in early America was fundamental to forging concepts of ethnicity, race, and gender. Duane argues that children had long been used to symbolize subservience, but in the New World those old associations took on more meaning. Drawing on a wide range of early American writing, she explores how the figure of a suffering child accrued political weight as the work of infantilization connected the child to Native Americans, slaves, and women. In the making of the young nation, the figure of the child emerged as a vital conceptual tool for coming to terms with the effects of cultural and colonial violence, and with time childhood became freighted with associations of vulnerability, suffering, and victimhood. As Duane looks at how ideas about the child and childhood were manipulated by the colonizers and the colonized alike, she reveals a powerful line of colonizing logic in which dependence and vulnerability are assigned great emotional weight. When early Americans sought to make sense of intercultural contact—and the conflict that often resulted—they used the figure of the child to help displace their own fear of lost control and shifting power.
Best Mac 'n' Cheese this side of the Atlantic' Elle 'Worth getting messy for' Metro Over 50 recipes from the legendary Mac 'n' Cheese truck. This book is full of pimped up mac 'n' cheese recipes, things to do with leftovers (mac 'n' cheese fries anyone?) plus tips on how to make the best béchamel sauce, the perfect cheeses to use, as well as recipes for sides, sauces, drinks and desserts to serve alongside. Featuring recipes for some of their well-known classics such as the Don Macaroni with bacon and pesto to the chipotle-laced Spicy Juan; to experimental ideas for the serious Macologist, including Machos, alpine-inspired Maclette, Mac-Packed Peppers, Mac 'n' Cheese Fries, the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich and more. Not forgetting the perfect wingmen to accompany your mac - they’ve got pickles, guac', kwik kimchi, salads and sauces as well as festival cocktails and hangover cures covering all the bases.
ContentsForeword ........................................................................................................................ 11Introduction .................................................................................................................... 15Mary's Happening - A presentation of the Biblical events leading to the birth of Christas told in the following ten stories:1 - Getting Ready (with illustration: Mary's Blessing) ................................................... 172- Dear Forever (with illustration: Gabriel and Mary) .................................................... 203 - My Delight (with illustration: Good night) .................................................................. 244 - What Happened at the Temple (with illustration: Elizabeth) ................................. 285 - Covered with Joy (with illustration: Donkey) .......................................................... 316 - Without Vision (with illustration: Joseph's Gift) ...................................................... 347 - Second Joseph (with illustration: Mary and Joseph) .............................................. 378 - First Time (with illustration: My Heart)...................................................................... 409 - That Star (with illustration: To Bethlehem) ................................................................ 4310 - So Beautiful (with illustration: Night of Birth) .......................................................... 46Proper Joseph - A play, or reading, based on Mary's Happening,including stage directions ................................................................................................. 49(with music: Merry Christmas, Praise You, and Proper Joseph)(with illustration: Angel with Mary)Optional Act 1, Scene 1: For children performers with stage directions ...................... 72Damsel (with illustration: Child Raised) ........................................................................... 75Little Dove (with illustration: Old Man and Dove) ............................................................ 78The Special One (with illustration: Boy at Temple) ......................................................... 82God and Man (with illustration: In The Garden) ............................................................... 86Barley Loaves (with illustration: 5 Loaves) .................................................................... 89Fed on Faith - A play with children for Barley Loaves ................................................... 93Christmas Story (with music: Fear Not, and with illustration: Mary and Baby) ........... 101Heaven's Christmas Tree (with illustration: A Family Tree) ....................................... 105Acknowledgements .................................................................................................... 109
People, in the new dawn of life a flower bud, small and energetic. We grow into a beautiful blossom, give joy to the world, and when we have done so, gradually fade away into our own time. Sometimes we are remembered with gladness and hapiness, recalling a momentous occasion, sometimes we are remembered with sadness and melancholy. Always, there is a purpose in everything. Destiny shapes all the elements.
The powerful story of two young men who changed the national debate about slavery In the 1820s, few Americans could imagine a viable future for black children. Even abolitionists saw just two options for African American youth: permanent subjection or exile. Educated for Freedom tells the story of James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet, two black children who came of age and into freedom as their country struggled to grow from a slave nation into a free country. Smith and Garnet met as schoolboys at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School, an educational experiment created by founding fathers who believed in freedom’s power to transform the country. Smith and Garnet’s achievements were near-miraculous in a nation that refused to acknowledge black talent or potential. The sons of enslaved mothers, these schoolboy friends would go on to travel the world, meet Revolutionary War heroes, publish in medical journals, address Congress, and speak before cheering crowds of thousands. The lessons they took from their days at the New York African Free School #2 shed light on how antebellum Americans viewed black children as symbols of America’s possible future. The story of their lives, their work, and their friendship testifies to the imagination and activism of the free black community that shaped the national journey toward freedom.
Best Mac 'n' Cheese this side of the Atlantic' Elle 'Worth getting messy for' Metro Over 50 recipes from the legendary Mac 'n' Cheese truck. This book is full of pimped up mac 'n' cheese recipes, things to do with leftovers (mac 'n' cheese fries anyone?) plus tips on how to make the best béchamel sauce, the perfect cheeses to use, as well as recipes for sides, sauces, drinks and desserts to serve alongside. Featuring recipes for some of their well-known classics such as the Don Macaroni with bacon and pesto to the chipotle-laced Spicy Juan; to experimental ideas for the serious Macologist, including Machos, alpine-inspired Maclette, Mac-Packed Peppers, Mac 'n' Cheese Fries, the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich and more. Not forgetting the perfect wingmen to accompany your mac - they’ve got pickles, guac', kwik kimchi, salads and sauces as well as festival cocktails and hangover cures covering all the bases.
Have you ever asked yourself, "Where is God in my life? Where is He leading me? How do I identify God's plan for my life?" In this easy-to-read yet stunningly profound memoir, former elementary school principal and devout Catholic Anna Mae Paladina invites you to jump rope through your life. As you read about her astounding vision and riveting spiritual journey, you will discover God's presence in your life-not merely in the good times, but in the difficult times as well. Life is never smooth; sometimes we fall on the jump rope, only to climb back up again. God holds the handles of our jump rope of life.
The first issue of Potion for the Passionate carries with it strong whispers of hope we reflect on little moments of joy amidst the tragic COVID-19 pandemic. As the world learns to adapt to the new normal, we find the glimmer of happiness in our humble abode.
This is a Novel based on true facts. It was written because I had no voice during the times I wanted and needed to be heard. I prayed and pondered in my mind on how I could let my voice be heard, to be a help to my family and my children. Friends turned their backs on us and people began to have stares and whispers about my family. My son Demetrius Jr was charged and convicted in a murder case that also implicated Demetrius Jr’s father Demetrius Sr. These novels I have written speak our truth on how we survived troubled times when we had no way but made a way out of no way by the goodness and gracefulness from my “LORD” and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. I therly go into details in depth about each one of my children in these novels on how their lives were turned upside down in the blink of an eye. We were thrown out to society to be the most hated family in all the surrounding areas we lived in and lived nearby. We survived deaths threats and actions that were brought to our home and reported to the local police department with no action taken on their part. I am a mother of 5 children and each one of them was impacted by racism and hate in many ways that was reported with no action taken. I wanted to write these novels for my children because I felt as if I couldn’t protect them when they needed to be protected. These novels speak about how corrupted and disloyal the system is to African American people. These Novels are based on what its like being born black outlining how the black alpha males in my family had a strike against them when they were born into this world as a black male. In these readings I detail the differences made when you’re a black male and black female born into a society that controls the maintenance of your life. When I say maintenance, I mean the fact of how you are stereo typed be how you wear your hair, how you talk, how you walk, how you are restricted from wearing certain colors, your body language and your eye contact that’s displayed while in front of certain white officials. The fact that as a black male when your brought up against charges with the law you are automatically guilty, and you must prove your innocence. When the law clearly states that you are innocent, and you must be proven guilty well that sounds good but that’s not how it is as a black male or female. Racism is live and well in this country we live in called America home of the free.
Rising Up Like a Lioness is a personal reflection on the grueling and intensive inner journey required to fully develop a 'faith response' to the never-ending awfulness of 'family dysfunction and toxic love'; and is a moral and spiritual guide to the necessary inner work of actively receiving faith's accompanying healing and deliverance. Its specifically referred to as a Spiritual Memoir [and not just a Memoir] because the focus is strictly 'spiritual' [not 'social' and not 'religious'], and the work is done for the sole purpose of authentic faith development -- the faith that's described and defined by Christ Himself [and not by 'civil religion' or by any particular 'religious tradition as doctrine' or by 'family dysfunction and toxic love']. Because if we allow it, 'family dysfunction and toxic love' can and will destroy the very soul of us. If we underestimate its moral and spiritual impact, it will quietly but surely destroy our chances for salvation through Christ. This Spiritual Memoir isn't about people; it isn't focused on engaging and entertaining through the famous art of storytelling. Its written for those God-fearing souls, who have deep and abiding faith and confidence in the actual 'promises' of God, and that just want out of the lifelong and never-ending cycle and life prison of 'family dysfunction.' It addresses Christian faith in a way that church life and organized religion never addresses or covers. This book is written for deep personal reflection, on the need to fully engage in spiritual washing and cleansing and purification -- even purging and going through the refiner's fire. This book is for the God-fearing soul that has no desire for or interest in the demands and distractions of religion and religious life and religious teachings, but still desperately wants real 'faith' in God and Christ. The author details the very real inner struggle to discard and change old mental and emotional habits 'inherited' from family dysfunction and toxic love, as well as those 'taken on' as an arsenal of defense mechanisms -- that is, to support the never-ending struggle to survive and coexist with them; and to work hard to take on new mental and emotional habits, that are in complete alignment with the commands of God and the teachings of Christ -- for the specific purpose of getting 'spiritually qualified' to receive the promises of God and the promised blessings of the covenant. The core message of this Spiritual Memoir is threefold: 1) that 'Family Is Not Everything'; 2) that 'Love Is Not A Prison'; and 3) that Christ came to invite His own to 'Skip the Religion, and Focus Exclusively on the Faith.' While the goal of this book is to help the reader learn how to spiritually remove layers and layers of 'bad teachings' [not matter how well-intentioned] and 'false teachings' on family and on love and on forgiveness, to return to the basics of the faith -- focusing strictly on learning nothing but the truth of the Gospel. In essence, this book is for the nonreligious pursuit of faith in God and Christ. I write these things to you concerning those who would deceive you. As for you, the anointing that you received from Him abides in you, and so you don't need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and isn't a lie, and just as it's taught you, abide in Him.1 John 2:26-2, NRSVThis is the covenant that I'll make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I'll put My laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I'll be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall not teach one another or say to each other, 'Know the Lord, ' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. Hebrews 8:10-11, NRSV
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