Loretta Diane Walker teaches music at Reagan Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High School, received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Tech University and earned a Master's of Elementary Education from the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. Loretta is active in her community through membership in organizations such as, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Permian Basin Poetry Society. She is also a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, the Poetry Society of Texas, the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Texas Mountain Trail Writers, the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and serves as a volunteer at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center. Loretta is a multiple Pushcart Prize Nominee. Her poems and essays appear in publications throughout the United States, Canada, and the UK. Her book Word Ghetto won the 2011 Blue Light Press Book Award. Miss Walker was elected as the 2014 "Community Statesman in the Arts" by the Heritage of Odessa Foundation. ABOUT IN THIS HOUSE BY LORETTA DIANE WALKER: Loretta Diane Walker's house of poems is majestic and delicate at once - immense in depth of vision and perception and tenderly sensitive in all the ways human beings need a house to be - with places to sit and remember, to treasure, and to tend. Her vibrantly descriptive poems honor the hardest days and rooms of being and believe in the beams of light coming back to us, once again, through the windows. They are poems as rich and wise as a profoundly conscious life. -Naomi Shihab Nye The deftly-written poems of In This House sing of life and loss, of illness and the courage to survive. Loretta Diane Walker's poems inhabit the world of the body in struggle with diabetes and cancer with both honesty and tenderness, just as they do the world of the heart. To borrow a line from the poem, "Barbara," these poems "blast beauty into the long chorus of night." -Cindy Huyser, poet and editor, author of Burning Number Five: Power Plant Poems In these remarkable poems, Walker writes not only of courage in the face of adversity but also of motherhood, family, gender, race, the bounty of the natural world, and the nourishment art provides to the hunger of the human soul. Her talent as a musician infuses her lines with a haunting musicality which complements her mastery of image and diction. Walker's poems glow on the page like candles in the darkness. -Larry D. Thomas, Member, Texas Institute of Letters, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Loretta Walker shuttles through the curls of emotions in her powerful book of poetry, In This House. Describing her mother's decline through diabetes, the delicate state of siblings comes through poems such as "In the Waiting Room." Mama was rolled in with two legs;/ she will be rolled out with one./ We are waiting/ to see who can hold back tears the longest. There is story here. Story of strength and stamina. I will give you an orange dress, Mama./ It is the only color brave enough to carry your darkness/ in its pocket. We are touched by her portrayal of her nephew's broken heart in "Shrine of Hormones" Because I love you more than the day you were born, / I will not tell you she is just the beginning. Her lines are clever, moving; words that linger long after the poem, such as in "Jack" Jack Daniel's been feasting on liver, / without onions, since before the depression. Walker is a poet on the rise, her words like a mantra to all who read, such as in "How to Fight Like a Girl" You must learn to walk/ through the day with a fish of fear/ floating through/ the coral of your belly. Read this book. Keep it in your nightstand. You will reach for it again and again. -Karla K. Morton, 2010 Texas Poet Laureate
Get your game on in the second installment of the Dungeons & Dragons Harper Chapters series! This 96-page early chapter book features full-color art throughout. When it comes to every monster’s favorite game, Goreball, Zelli and the Danger Club are no match against the undefeated Waterdeep dragons. When all hope seems lost for the gang of misfits, an unlikely new friend steps up to teach them how to unlock their hidden talents. Zelli and her friends will need to trust their new coach’s advice if they plan to defeat the fearsome Waterdeep team. But it won’t be easy—especially since their new coach is a dragon!
Hidden hideout hijinks are in store in this third adventure of the Dungeons & Dragons chapter book series! Zelli Stormclash and the Danger Club are in a race against time to find a secret clubhouse, where they can store their trove of forbidden books and practice adventurer techniques safe from prying eyes. With a nosy classmate hot on their trail, the pressure is on! Luckily, everyone is certain they’ve found the perfect place for the club to meet—but will this ragtag gang of misfits be able to agree on a hideout that works for everyone? Packed with enchanting full-color art and perfect for any fantasy-loving reluctant reader, this series is a treasure for any young Dungeons & Dragons fan.
A 96-page, full-color early chapter book, based on the iconic board game Dungeons & Dragons and featuring characters from the hit middle grade series Dungeon Academy! Being a human at the prestigious Dungeon Academy is strictly forbidden. That’s why Zelli Stormclash must keep her identity a secret! Disguised as a minotaur, Zelli does her work, tries her best to blend in with her monstrous surroundings all the while keeping to herself. Unless it involves bullies. Zelli hates bullies and has no problem putting a stop to their antics. When a smaller student is teased by a gang of goblin bullies, Zelli steps in to save the day. But will the “Bully Crusher” take on more than she can handle?
DIVA sleepwalking student fears she may be terrorizing her university/div DIVThe Spring Fling formal is the most important event on Salem University’s social calendar: a night when the entire school comes together to show off dresses, dance moves, and dates. But this year, just as the party is getting started, the stench of rotten eggs washes over the crowd. In the rush to escape the awful smell, a riot nearly breaks out. Somebody tossed a stink bomb to ruin the dance—but who would pull such a prank?/divDIV /divDIVQuinn Hadley doesn’t know anything about it; she couldn’t get a date, and she slept through the dance. But when she awakes, she finds one of her jackets reeking of sulfur. Quinn knows she has a problem with sleepwalking, and she worries that she tossed the stink bomb while unconscious. As the tricks escalate, Quinn comes unhinged. For the girl who fears sleep, madness is not far off./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div
Has Diane M. Walker found her true love after two failed abusive marriages? Her personal journey within reflects the humor, illness, substance abuse, jail, depression, death, the demise of her career and her spiritual faith. Through all of the trials and tribulations, Diane finds an inner strength that not only pulls her through but also finds unconditional love and forgiveness for her life partner and best friend, John. She shares stories of her strength and how she was able to overcome some of the heart-wrenching and horrific experiences in her life.
In a former life Jack Bastide was a computer programmer toiling away in a cubicle while Diane Walker was working for a government contractor. Many years later they have created a life of their dreams but it wasn't easy. "Navigating The World of Network Marketing" takes you on a brilliant journey through the wild and wooly world of Multilevel Marketing (MLM). You will have a front row seat and watch vicariously as Jack and Diane overcome obstacle after obstacle throughout their voyage. Along the way you may laugh, you may cry, but you will never be bored. Not only does this book have a lot of value as pure entertainment but there are a lot of lessons to be learned as well. Any successful business person makes a lot of mistakes along the way and Jack and Diane are no different. With this book you can learn from their mistakes. Section One is a Network Marketing Novel. It tells Jack and Diane's Story as they sail through the stormy seas of MLM overcoming bad sponsors, a dishonest former partner, companies failing, incompetent company owners, crooked uplines and much more. But it's not all bad as they learned a lot and met a lot of great people along the way. Section Two is called "Lessons Learned in Network Marketing", This details all they have learned throughout their journey. It gives detailed examples of what to look for and what to avoid. This Section is priceless. Section Three is called "Voices in Network Marketing" where you will hear from many of Jack and Diane's friends and associates in Network Marketing. Whether you are an experienced Network Marketer or looking at the Industry for the first time you will thoroughly enjoy and learn something from "Navigating the World of Network Marketing".
Inspired by the proliferation of Ten Minute Play Festivals, playwright Diane Walker has crafted 20 short plays -- some dark, some murderous, and some purely goofy -- and all commentaries on life in the New Millennium.
A very dear friend asked Loretta, "When are you going to write a novel and make some real money? You have some great ideas." Her answer for now is this. Novelists take ideas and create stories. Poets take a word and create a universe. If one is blessed to be both, what a gift they are to the world. One day she hopes to write a novel. But today she is a poet and music teacher at Reagan Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High School, received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Tech University and earned a Master's of Elementary Education from the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. Loretta is active in her community through membership in organizations such as Texas Music Educators Association, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Permian Basin Poetry Society. She is also a member of the Poetry Society of Texas, the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, the Poetry Society of Oklahoma, Abilene Writer's Guild, the National Federation of Poetry Societies, and the Texas Mountain Trail Writers. Loretta believes kindness is a language in and of itself, she hopes to speak it fluently. She also believes when children speak, listen. There are treasures in the syntax of their innocence. Endorsements: Loretta Walker's Word Ghetto is a rich multi-dimensional kaleidoscope of Life, turning your mind and senses like the Milky Way galaxy, while freeing your heart to embrace your Oneness. Who would have thought Kali, the Black Goddess, was living in West Texas disguised as Loretta Walker? And like Kali, Loretta Walker crushes your separateness with her enchanting dance of Life through the Word Ghetto. Read it and be free. -George E. James, Author of Peeling the Onion: Poems of Spiritual Awakening and Copperhead: Tantric Lessons on Love. Loretta Diane Walker writes with compassionate wisdom and insight-her poems restore humanity. -Naomi Shihab Nye Loretta Walker's Word Ghetto is an astounding book, full of wisdom, compassion, and masterfully woven word magic. Her language speaks with a rich tapestry of emotion, and her poems sing like a saxophone playing the music of her soul. Loretta Walker's vision is huge - she speaks for a whole community of people who are marginalized by the circumstances of their birth. Her poems offer healing, vision and hope." -Diane Frank, Author of Blackberries in the Dream House and Entering the Word Temple In this accomplished book, Loretta Diane Walker, poet, musician and teacher, draws us into her word music, and convinces us to inhabit her deepest concerns -children, race in America, pain and forgiveness, the changing body, the open soul-to revel in language and life with her, to wonder and to grieve. Walker finds beauty so thoroughly entrenched in the quotidian, we are glad to enter her world, even though it is not untarnished. Her fierce poems temper hope with honesty, conviction with clarity of vision. Startlingly fresh without posturing or distraction, they pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses. From the tenderness of the teacher to her young students, through memories of her childhood, and her involvement in the lived experiences of others, she holds a mirror to the revelations of a grounded life. -Mary Kay Rummel, Author of What's Left is the Singing
In her powerful new collection of poems, Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom, Loretta Diane Walker takes us on harrowing journey, authenticated by striking and imaginative attentions-a testament to the strength of one woman's spirit faced with adversity, "the colliery of darkness," both physical and emotional, personal and cultural, local and historical. The range of these poems far exceeds their considerable force as personal narrative alone. "The sky is a mortuary for stars," she writes. "A lone bulb attempts to touch its round shadow." Here we find the play of a mercurial mind whose sober confrontation with mortality, illness, and marginalization moves seamlessly, with lyric inflection, toward understanding, affirmation, and an inclusiveness of vision and heart. A remarkable achievement. - Bruce Bond I am lucky to have met and heard Loretta Diane Walker read her poems on many occasions, so when I was reading this collection, I listened for a voice I knew well: a soft, precise lament, on the edge of tears, drenched continually by unexpected pain and grief, yet still rising again and again to the light of hope, most evident in what I have always admired in her craft, the original metaphor, unique to the poem, and to me, yet still apt, piercing in truth, shining like a familiar star in the ink of the night, just like, as she writes, the "faces of angels you can only see in darkness." - Laurence Musgrove, author of Local Bird and The Bluebonnet Sutras, editor of Texas Poetry Assignment. I love these poems, these calculations of hope that emerge from a colliery of darkness fueled by cancer, racism, the pandemic and loss. I love how Loretta Diane Walker wrestles with the world as it is and emerges again and again with clear, rich poems that wash the soul in light. This is a collection of healing and hard-won hope. It opened me. - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of Hush and Naked for Tea The poems in Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom are informed by a deep grieving for both the lyric speaker's own personal suffering, and that of our larger world. We see in Loretta Walker's richly imagist poems human suffering in its many forms - whether that be one's growth into adulthood without the presence of a faithful parent, or the pain and uncertainty of a cancer patient's ongoing treatment, or the challenges each of us now face daily as we live in the midst of a global pandemic, or the individual and social turmoil engendered by racial bigotry, and its consequent injustices. Walker's is a necessary grief. It is the transformation of that grieving that leads her to the balm of the natural world, and the predictable cycle of seasons tethering us to the earth. The book's arc leads both poet and reader to praise this life, to celebrate the time we each have in our world - the poems themselves enacting survival, salvation. - Robin Davidson
Through compelling terrain both earthy and spiritual, sundry lives emerge overlaid with mystery. Vivid, searching poems like these elicit our shared sorrows, hopes, sensibilities. And horizon-wide, they evoke compassion wherein vulnerability is our light.
Gemma Benson has just signed on as interim priest to clean up the mess at St. Elwood's Episcopal Church, on the tiny Northwest island of Brandon's Rock. But a curmudgeonly Einstein, an intermittently homeless boy, and a suitcase full of $1000 bills are wreaking havoc with her plans for the recovering parish...
At this book’s core is the fundamental belief that teacher quality is the single most important factor in student learning. It shows you how to improve your students’ academic achievement by focusing on what teachers know and are able to do. This brief handbook serves as a practical tool which provides professional growth benchmarks for aspiring and practicing teachers; a framework to use when hiring new teachers; common language for dialogues on learning and for teacher evaluation; and a clearer focus on professional development. Six Standards of Practice is presented in simple, practical, classroom-oriented terms. Also displayed are rubrics which reveal and distinguish “emerging”, “developing”, “proficient”, and “advanced” practices.
Assessment is an essential part of mental-health nursing and as such a core learning requirement for pre-registration nursing students. Getting assessment right is essential for the nursing student in order for them to become an effective practitioner. Many books on assessment are very theoretical. This is a practical, hands-on guide to the assessment process, underpinned by the latest evidence. The book explains the core principles through running case studies, so that readers can see how each decision they make impacts on the person in their care. Key features: Assessment principles are applied across a variety of modern nursing settings that you may find yourself working in as a registered nurse Each chapter is linked to the relevant NMC standards and Essential Skills Clusters so you know you are meeting the professional requirements Activities throughout help you to think critically and develop essential graduate skills.
Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or parallel universes that need to converse or collide. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars and filmmakers, demonstrate the challenges that feminist perspectives pose for documentary theory, history, and practice. They also show how fuller attention to documentary enriches and complicates feminist theory, especially regarding the relationship between gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, and nation. Feminism and Documentary begins with a substantial historical introduction that highlights several of the specific areas that contributors address: debates over realism, the relationship between filmmaker and subject, historical thinking about documentary and thinking about the historical documentary, biography and autobiography, and the use of psychoanalysis. Other essays, most of which appear here for the first time, range from broad overviews to close analyses of particular films and videos and from discussions of well-known works such as Roger and Me and Don't Look Back to lesser known texts that might revise the canon. The collection includes an extensive filmography and videography with useful distribution information and a bibliography of work in this neglected area of scholarship. Lucid, sophisticated, and eye-opening, this book will galvanize documentary studies and demonstrate the need for women's and cultural studies to grapple with visual media. what cu.
Lose belly fat and also trim off the fat around your thighs, hips, arms, and legs... So you decided to lose weight but at the same time, you want to have much more energy and look great. This Paleo Diet Cookbook will change your life and will help you become happier, healthier and even more beautiful. With Paleo for Beginners guide, you'll discover the best, most effective and healthiest way of eating on the planet! The Paleo Diet can help you decipher which foods are healthiest for you and shorten your shopping time by eliminating time spent sorting through processed foods. Eating healthy and losing weight would be reason enough to try the Paleo Diet, but there are additional health benefits that go far beyond weight loss. You'll discover 500 amazing Paleo recipes under various sections such as: Breakfast Recipes Side Dish Recipes Soups & Stews Recipes Seafood & Fish Recipes Meat Recipes Salad Recipes Vegetable Recipes Snacks & Appetizers Recipes Dessert Recipes This is the beauty of Paleo Diet - you can have a wide range of foods without feeling guilty, but energized, full all the time and as healthy as you can be. Every single recipe found in this book complies with the rules of Paleo Diet and it's delicious, as well as nourishing. Get your copy today and enjoy delicious, healthy and mouthwatering Paleo Diet recipes. It's easy, it's healthy and life changing!
Provides insight into the unique relationship that exists between women and animals and includes contributions from Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Fifty ready-to-use assemblies for infants, Assemblies for Infants Book 2 covers the following themes Candlemas Before / after a church visit Other children Jesus' miracles Senses - sight Crosses Music assemblies.
A Good Start? contains a clearly laid-out retelling of the Parable of the Two Houses, suitable for photocopying to big book size and computer colouring if required. The story itself is followed by a comprehensive Acitivity Bank (Sentence, Text and Word levels), a RE Teacher's Page and photocopiable activity sheets.
These lesson plans aim to help deliver key elements of RE curricula thoughout the UK to Key Stage 2/Scottish 5-14 students, using the Bible World series as a principal resource. Differentiated activities cater for a range of abilities.
Two Sarah and Paul Resource Books and DVDs provide an ideal means of teaching young children about Christianity. Topics based on the activities of the characters, six year old Sarah and her brother Paul, at home and at church, introduce aspects of Christian belief and practice in a form readily accessible to pupils. They are designed to help pupils understand and reflect on what it means to be part of a Christian family.Sarah and Paul Again Resource Book and DVD contain the following topics:5 Helping6 Belonging (a baptism)7 Friends8 Easter Surprise
Two Sarah and Paul Resource Books and DVDs provide an ideal means of teaching young children about Christianity. Topics based on the activities of the characters, six year old Sarah and her brother Paul, at home and at church, introduce aspects of Christian belief and practice in a form readily accessible to pupils. They are designed to help pupils understand and reflect on what it means to be part of a Christian family.Introducing Sarah and Paul Resource Book and DVD contain the following topics:1. Introducing Sarah and Paul2. Sarah and Paul go to Church3. Harvest4. Christmas is coming
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