When Ed Dodge was born in Salamanca, New York, nobody could have guessed the twists and turns his life would take. Along the way he was a prison doctor, an emergency room physician, a public health director, a family doctor, a volunteer with Volunteer-in-Mission teams in Africa, and an adjunct professor of health.
Ed Dodge grew up as a missionary kid in Angola, Africa. Some of his adventures included living in the wilds of northern Angola, hunting for wild game, and traveling across many poorly charted areas of Africa. Ed obtained his medical degree from Indiana University and his Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University. After teaching public health in Ethiopia for two years, he was a public health director in rural USA. He concluded his career as a family physician. Through his experiences, Ed grew to understand the value to health when the whole person is embraced, body, mind, and spirit. Quantum physics and cutting edge research support such a perspective. Tim's Story describes this emerging trend in medicine and defines the individual's responsibility in this new paradigm of health.
Traces the painful coming of age -- dau means pain in Vietnamese -- of Morgan Preston, a seventeen-year-old American who suffers the brutality of the Vietnam War and the hellishness of its aftermath.
This book is a short health guide based on new scientific findings that our bodies are built on a foundation of energy. We are learning through research that spiritual qualities like love and hope, once considered as being outside of the realm of science, are in fact powerful factors in determining our health. Science cannot say that we are spiritual in nature, but it is not a great stretch to conclude that our essence is spiritual. Whether we make that stretch or not, responsibility for our own health is clearer than ever before. Your health is not something that can be maintained by anyone else. The most important factor in the quality of your health is how well you take care of yourself. Tim's Story sets the stage for this new paradigm of health.
This book will help anyone who wants to enjoy long-term good health. Most people would like to feel wonderful, live longer, and be happy. Most people have the power to bring this about in their own lives. You have much more power to assure your own good health than anyone else does - even your doctors. This book, written by a physician who has your health interests in mind, spells out the steps any person can take to enjoy good long-term health. You can be Master of your own health. Buy the "Ten Steps to Exceptional Health" to gain the health tools to make this possible. Be Well!
As he demonstrated in The Fox and Other Stories, (Turtle Press - 1996) and The Man Who Saw Himself (Xlibris -2002), Ed Robison continues to watch and listen closely to the world around him. This new collection reveals fresh poignancies and acutely observed quotidian mini-dramas that can easily burn into the consciousness of those willing to pause and listen. The River of Fire, the key story, is another unforgettable look at the horror of war. “It wouldn’t be entirely out of line to characterize Ed Robison as a Damon Runyon of the resorts, retirement communities, logging towns and ... porch swings of the Northwest.” —Jim Nisbet Author of Prelude to a Scream.
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There are probably not two more polar opposite genres than rap music and drag racing. The author is by no means an authority on either. By 2012, it was apparent that the United States was facing many problems. The laundry list included: jihadists, unemployment, health care woes, unconstitutional and unchallenged moves by government officials,... the list seems endless. Yet at the core of the nation's ills was the over arching issue of right and wrong. How is it defined? And who defines it ? Into this maelstrom of chaos, the characters herein find themselves cast. Nearly 50 years after the radicals of the 1960's found their answers 'blowing in the wind' , what has America become ? The D&J Racing team of Mountain Home, Va., find themselves ensnared in a world far beyond 1/4 mile races. One will lose life because of it. And what of the children who walk through the land where selfish pleasure dominates each individual's daily life. Sarah and Micah are about to find out. There are others who live outside the 'tranquil' world of Mountain Home. They have been gifted to live in the fast lane of 'pop culture'. Wealthy, yet morally bankrupt, the FATFISTs and BARON ALLs of the world are about one thing- PLEASURE- regardless of the cost. If there money to be made at the expense of the innocence of children-so be it. Then there are the Runks...an inter-city detective and his wheelchair bound wife. Discredited and dismissed by those in power, they become the embodiment of Philippians 4: 13 - "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
BOOK SUMMARY OF AMERICAN GREATNESS The theme of this book is a concise history of our country, from Columbus to Reagan. The purpose is to show what made America great. The many people, who were at the right place at the right time, preserved the spirit that made the United States not only free but unknowingly helped it become a great nation. What they said and accomplished should be preserved for all future generation to know and appreciate. It has been chronicled in numerous ways, but bears repeating. As John Dewey said in 1916, “Democracy must be reborn in each generation and education is the midwife.”
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Wanted for Murder: The Marshal's Wife Marshal Lane Morgan is an honorable man who isn't about to let anyone dodge the law—not even the son of Paul Webley, the most crooked figure in Skylar, Colorado. Lane is all set to testify against Webley's boy—until Webley himself starts digging into Lane's wife's past and turns up one helluva dirty secret. No sooner does Lane receive a threat of blackmail than the dead body of a grifter is found—leaving the marshal's wife as the number one suspect. Now, with little more than his instincts to go on. Lane must risk his livelihood, his values, and his own freedom to track down the real killer—and save his wife from a fate worse than death... "Simply one of the best Western writers of our time."—Rocky Mountain News "An underappreciated master."—Booklist
Joel Richards leaves his family's West Virginia farm in 1863 to join the Union army where he becomes a highly-skilled, decorated cavalryman, After the war, he returns home finding the farm in disrepair; his father alone and dying. Joel's family has been severely beaten by deserters causing the death of his mother and sister. Upon his father's passing, he sells the farm and heads for Texas in search of a place to fulfill a promise made to his dying father; There he hires on with the Single Six Ranch to drive 2500 head of longhorns to Dodge City. Joel's unique calvary talents come into play against marauding Indians, cattle rustlers and a confrontation with a wartime foe, Romance and more trouble lay ahead in Dodge City; trouble that will follow Joel all the way to the Wyoming Territory where he travels in pursuit of his quest. Like Gideon, there's a warrior of varying degrees in all of us. There comes a time in our lives when confrontation is inevitable leaving us no other option but to stand tall and give it our best. Joel Richards as The Reluctant Warrior does just that.
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