After over three decades experience as a marriage and family therapist, Dr. Beth Erickson finally distills her observations and conclusions into a book discussing the 7 Keys couples need to master in order to have a happy and fulfilling marriage. She illustrates her points by telling stories from her clients' lives and her own. Her breadth of experience, personally and professionally, shines through every page. Dr. Beth takes couples' worst enemies and shows readers how to combat them. She engages the reader in a dialogue with her throughout, as if they were sitting in her living room. She urges readers to have qualitatively different conversations with their spouse and with themselves, and she shows them how. Marriage isn't for Sissies is therapy, support group, coaching, and skills training in a book.
Far from being disposable, as some contemporary voices would have us believe, fathers play a crucial role in the lives of their children. When denied meaningful contact with their fathers, either physically or emotionally, a gaping hole or "father hunger" emerges in the child's psyche, from what it experiences as desertion. If left unfulfilled, this father hunger triggers pronounced psychological patterns consigning that child to personal and professional dead-ends as an adult. Father hunger manifests itself in many forms such as workaholic, substance abuse, chronic depression, sexual promiscuity, violent behavior, food addiction, and an inability to sustain intimate relationships. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Beth Erickson helps readers and therapists identify and pinpoint the causes of father hunger and explore the spiritual crises that unresolved losses such as this generate. Provocative exercises present strategies for resolving these losses and escaping the cycle of anguish. Longing for Dad is a roadmap to a pace of comfort and hope for anyone suffering from physical or emotional father loss and will help new fathers provide their children with a strong foundation for a healthy, well-balanced adulthood.
An empty baby stroller, the shadow of a man, a child's cries--all images that haunt psychic Angela Martin's dreams. After blaming herself for a kidnapped child's death, she vows never to trust her visions again. But when a kidnapper strikes close to home, Angie can no longer turn her back on her gift. Newspaper reporter Brian Murphy helps find kidnapped children. However, when he features Angie and her psychic skills in a story, things don't go well. She's hiding from a past that could put her in danger, and wants nothing to do with the nosy reporter and his charming ways. When the kidnapper targets Angie with his twisted nursery rhyme game, she's forced to work with Brian. To save a child, Angie must rely not only on her visions, but also trust Brian with her secrets--maybe even her heart. Failure could mean death for them all.
Diana Mason witnessed her biological mother's brutal murder when she was five years old. Adopted soon after, she possesses no memory of the crime or her early childhood. Terrifying nightmares, triggered after finding a photo of her birth mother, lead Diana to Hawaii in search of a woman she doesn't know is already dead. She soon becomes the target of the killer who wants to silence her before she remembers the night of the murder. Jim Hastings, ex-cop turned private investigator, avoids birth parent search cases, but he can't shy away from Diana Mason's need for a bodyguard. Diana balks at Jim's by-the-book approach to protecting her. However, they must work together to unlock her past while fending off the killer--and a growing attraction for each other. Their blossoming romance is nearly destroyed when the murderer's identity is revealed.
Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Febr. 15 - May 12, 1998 F Organized by Carolyn Lanchner ; with Essays by Carolyn Lanchner, Jodi Hauptman and Matthew Affron ; and Contrib. by Beth Handler and Kristen Erickson
Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Febr. 15 - May 12, 1998 F Organized by Carolyn Lanchner ; with Essays by Carolyn Lanchner, Jodi Hauptman and Matthew Affron ; and Contrib. by Beth Handler and Kristen Erickson
Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes (1913-14), the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism, through his last realistic paintings of construction workers from the early 1950s, Leger's lifelong subject was the pulse and dynamism of contemporary life.
What do successful writers do? The answer may surprise you. You may have read the books, attended seminars, studied the craft. But if your version of success is still eluding you, it's time for something different. Real different. Here you'll find nuts and bolts how-to information, inner work exercises, insider biz secrets, this unique little book blows the lid off the deceptively simple recipe for freelance success: ~ You control only one thing in this biz. Find out what it is on page 8. ~ Find out a dominant trait most creative-types possess, outsiders may find it irritating, but to us, it's essential. ~ Ferret out behavior patterns that serve you, that hinder you, and how to control them. ~ Discover how the concept of ¿soaking¿ can improve your writing. (Page 23) ~ Read the ¿Tale of Two Writers.¿ Heed the message in this story or suffer the consequences. ~ Earning the big bucks is great. But this is way better. ~ If you don't tend to this, you're sunk. It's not what you probably think. ~ What's more powerful than writing competence? Find out on page 50. Beth Ann Erickson is a decades long freelancer (since 1995), publisher of Writing Etc., the free zine for freelancers, copywriter, author, and Internet Marketing expert. You can connect with her at BethAnnErickson.com.
Anne Olssen lived an ordinary life until her husband died. Her lifespiralsinto a nightmare when she finds out somebody wants her dead. Her onlyallyis Steven Vandrose. Readers call Heart Songs an "imaginative, beautiful, andhorrifying story.
When Jennifer Thompson won an all expenses paid, vacation touring Europe on the TGV, high speed train, she thought she hit the jackpot. With dreams of visiting the ¿Old World's¿ finest tourist destinations, she never dreamed she was embarking on an adventure that would rock the foundations of everything she believed true. Her nightmare begins with the brutal murder of every passenger on the TGV... except her. In a world where the lines of good and evil, terrorism and freedom fighter are blurred, Jennifer must reconcile her newfound nightmare reality with everything she once considered ¿real.¿ Beth Ann Erickson is the author of two other novels, The Almach and Heartsongs, as well as six nonfiction titles. Readers call her novels, ¿... hauntingly beautiful...¿ ¿... intriguing and sensual...¿ and ¿fun.¿ She lives in Minnesota with her husband, son, and two rescue pups, all of whom she adores.
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Fernand Leger is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series "Contrastes de formes," of 1913-14 - the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism - through his paintings of construction workers from the late 1940s and early 1950s, his enduring subject was the pulse and dynamism of everyday life. Leger saw the twentieth-century environment as "a state of contrasts," a condition that he translated into art through forceful juxtapositions of shape, color, and line. His attempt to reconcile the formal concerns of artmaking with issues of social responsibility continues to be relevant to the art world of today. This book is published to accompany a retrospective exhibition appearing at The Museum of Modern Art in the winter and spring of 1998 - New York's first in-depth survey of Leger's work in over forty years. The essays include Carolyn Lanchner's account of Leger's experience of and interest in America (he visited the United States several times, and lived there during World War II), and also of America's interest in him. Jodi Hauptman explores refractions of Leger's interests in the work of more recent artists, and Matthew Affron discusses Leger's ambition to make an art reflecting the "new visual state" of modern life. The plate section reproduces over eighty of Leger's paintings and drawings, and is accompanied by a series of short essays tracing formal and thematic developments in his art.
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