This is a composition of my feelings and thoughts over a fifty-five-year period .The ladies I loved and cared for deeply, and I still feel for them. I believe love never dies; it only weakens a little. But in the back of your mind, you never forget the good times and bad times that have brought you to these later years of thought. I was married twice. I know what youre going through with a broken heart and loneliness. I can sincerely say I have walked in your shoes. Sometimes its a blessing and sometimes its destiny, but we all know the hurt and sleepless nights with tears. My advice to you would be to write it all down in the night when your alone and slumber doesnt come. God bless.
If you really and truly want God in your life, you owe it to yourself to read this book. This story is about a young boy who sufferedand still sufferingchasing dreams and facing a lot of suffering along the way, and how he achieved most of his dreams. After fifty-five years of his life, he came to find Jesus Christ even though he came from an extremely dysfunctional family, feeling rejected, not loved, was sexually, physically, and verbally abused. He faced the nasty words from his father, You are way too stupid and black and ugly. Youll never amount to anything! Those nasty words from his father were the words that motivated young Danny to execute his dreams. At the tender age of ten, Danny was put into the juvenile hall for incorrigible boys. But after three long years, he was released and became a matador (bullfighter) in Tijuana, Mexico; prizefighter, Rodeo Brahma bull rider and bareback bronco rider; professional roller skating derby skater for thirty-two years, a professional Texas bounty hunter; a repo man; a successful entrepreneur, was in a few motion pictures and Hispanic soap opera called Padres con Poder; and an author. Danny also spent five years in prison, and thats how he found our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ and his ordained minister wife Dharma. She came to the prison to minister to seven hundred inmates, and thats how Danny met her. Dannys partner, Jane P. Peterson, was killed in an arrest attempt. His son was shot, and his house was bombed. Danny had been shot and stabbed multiple times and was left in a coma for seven days in an attempted arrest as a bounty hunter. And while he was in a coma, Danny had his second Christian spiritual experience with God. The first spiritual encounter was in the juvenile hall. The story you are about to read may seem like fiction or something out of a movie script. If you enjoyed the books Divine Revelations of Hell, by Mary K. Baxter, or Proof of Heaven, by Dr. Eden Alexander, or the movies Forrest Gump or Walking Tall, then youll love reading this book. Ninety-five percent of what you will read in this book is true. All of the names have been changed to protect the innocent. God bless.
?Things I Have Saw and Did??the title derived from a grammatically challenged sports officiating friend?is a compilation of some 250 stories gleaned from Danny Andrews?s diverse life experiences. He has been a journalist, including 39 years of column, news, feature and sports writing for The Plainview, Texas, Daily Herald; sports broadcaster, sports official and basketball magazine publisher; involved in a variety of community organizations; an active Christian layman; and, for the past eight years, the alumni director at his alma mater, Wayland Baptist University. The stories include his family; growing-up years in Plainview; longtime friends and chance encounters with celebrities; experiences in school and Wayland; playing, officiating, reporting on, and broadcasting sports; interesting Herald and Hearst newspaper colleagues and experiences; faith, church and mission ventures; and a collection of miscellaneous tales. Andrews says he?s been ?Thinking Out Loud? (the title of his Herald column for 28 years and his musings for the Wayland alumni magazine) since his formal journalism career began almost 50 years ago. He brings his subjects to life with vivid detail, humor and pathos, hoping to foster in readers memories of their own similar experiences, to take them vicariously to meet with presidents in the White House, confront cantankerous newspaper readers, share humorous glimpses of sports officiating and broadcasting, relate tales that prove this is a small world after all and, perhaps, encourage their own faith journey.
Danny Thomas grew up in East Tennessee in the 1950's and 1960's. After graduating from Clinton High School in 1966 and playing football for legendary Bear Bryant at the University of Alabama from 1966 through 1971, he worked as a teacher/administrator for twenty years in Durham, North Carolina. The family, his wife, Cynthia, two daughters, and a son, accompanied him to new jobs in Salisbury and Sanford. Upon retirement in 2006, the family moved to Winston-Salem where he began consulting work which allows him time for writing. He has twice been recognized by the West Side Story Contest out of San Francisco for his Alabama stories, "Cake Takers" and "Gladrags," and in 2011 he won first prize in the Hackney Literary Awards out of Birmingham with "Unbidden," a North Carolina story. His first novel, Clinch River Pearls, was published in February, 2013. The Thomas family divides time between home most of the year in Winston-Salem and summers at an island retreat in north Ontario. He is currently at work on his third East Tennessee book, a sequel to Pellissippi Ghosts, titled The Airplane Filling Station.
Real OGs dont spend their life running away from their fears but chasing their dreams. I am willing to bet my life on the guess that the Dough Boys on the corner because they are trying to run away from their fears, namely, the fear of poverty, that they are sling on the corner. Running from your fears and chasing your dreams are two totally different entities. One has you as the runner and the other as the chaser, and we all know that it is better to be the hunter than the game. Running from your fears is what you are most likely to do when you lack trust in God and confidence in yourself. God doesnt reward us for running away from our fears but for pursuing our dreams. When you have trust and confidence, you are more subject to pursue your dreams. Knowing this is the reason I wrote this book especially for the young men on the corner selling drugs and deceived by the myths of the game. I firmly believe that if they can just be made to believe that God is on their side and that they have greater gifts and talents within them than they show by standing on the corner selling drugs and committing other crimes that they will prove all their detractors wrongthose who say they are hopeless and worthless. It goes without saying that when we know better, we do better. At the same time, it has to be said that the Dough Boys likely know better and that they can do better than they know, if they simply apply themselves to doing the simple thing of just trusting God and having self-confidence. So this is a book written for anyone who has yet to experience the blessing of being able to pursue their dreams without the fear of not being able to make it unless they give into the status quo: do what they consider as the only game in town for people like them, with three strikes against them, namely, being young, having no wisdom (strike one), being black, having no vision (strike two), and being unskilled and having no fortitude (strike three). It is meant to make you aware of the fact that there is more to life than what you can gain by running with the crowd and among those miserable pessimists who believe that the streets are the only life available to them. Know this one thing: if you dont open this book and only read the back cover, the greatest success is had by those who have a God that not only blesses them with the desires of their heart but also gives them a heart of faith and spirit of courage. Dough boys, man up and put your trust in God!
The late Danny Thomas recounts his fantastic life and career in this touching memoir. From his poverty-stricken boyhood to his incredible rise to fame, from his friendships with the giants of the entertainment world to his unselfish work for the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, here is a warmhearted look at one of the world's great storytellers.--Associated Press. 16 pages of photographs.
Country music legend Davis, leader of the world-famous Nashville Brass, shares stories from more than 50 years of show business from playing with Gene Krupa and others during the big band era to working with stars like Connie Francis and Hank Williams, Jr. Includes 150 rare and exclusive photographs.
Don't bunt in a blowout. Don't pimp your home runs. Act like you've been here before. In Unwritten: Bat Flips, the Fun Police, and Baseball's New Future, national baseball writer Danny Knobler dives deep beyond the brushbacks and brawls to examine shifting attitudes towards Major League Baseball's once-sacred player codes. What emerges in the process is a much larger story, one of a more youthful, more exuberant, more diverse game in the midst of a fascinating culture clash. Featuring countless interviews with some of baseball's biggest names, including current and former major-league players, coaches, scouts, and journalists, Unwritten is a revealing, thoroughly of-the-moment portrait of a sport grappling with the loaded question of what it means to play the game the right way. Fans will not want to miss these varied, inside perspectives on America's pastime marching into the future.
The man who went from a childhood of poverty in Toledo to become a major star and producer of such hits as "Make Room for Daddy" and "The Dick Van Dyke show" shares the story of his phenomenal success
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