Letters from Dollie is a very personal story about a talented writer and a free-thinking feminist who immigrated with her family from Ireland when she was 11 and matured into an adult in rural Oklahoma in the first half of the twentieth century.Dollie describes her life as young woman, office worker, wife and mother, much of it through her correspondence with her girlhood friend, Hazel Hippler, later McClary, of Pennsylvania.Dollie's eyewitness accounts bring a unique and personal perspective to American history of the 1920s, ´30s and ´40s and chronicle phenomena such as the influence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Oklahoma oil boom, and the poverty of farmers in the Dust Bowl.The wit and wisdom contained in Letters from Dollie provide insights into her relationship with Hazel and an opportunity to share the emotions and experiences of this bright and fascinating woman.
Tadville by Joaquin Bowman Tadville is the story of growing up with undiagnosed mental illness, written from the perspective and experiences of a younger brother. The story, which spans a fifty-year period, begins in Hollywood, California, in the 1940s, where an aspiring actress forsakes her dream of glamour and remains home with her two boys in a destructive marriage. Infidelity and sometimes violent arguments become routine in the family life the author characterizes as the freak show. Tad, the older boy and subject of the story, enjoys the complete devotion of his mother, who labors to conceal his unusual characteristics, primarily associated with Asperger’s syndrome. When the Bowmans relocate to Pennsylvania, family life eventually dissolves into relationships where love and companionship are used as bargaining chips. Not until the author spends time with a warm and loving aunt and her large family does he realize how broken his family truly is. “Aunt Eleanor, my mother’s sister, was short, motherly, and kind. I envied my cousins, and as a seven-year-old kid, I wondered why our family couldn’t be more like theirs.” The sometimes sad and funny story moves quickly through the years until Tad, as an adult, refuses to relinquish the “game” he imagines himself winning, then finally admits defeat shortly before his death in 1994. Family members look back and remember the fatally flawed person they loved and, at times, feared. The story reveals the conspiracy of silence surrounding his illness and unusual behavior, a mistake that will affect future generations. Tadville, a brother’s story, profiles a world of fantasy, domination, power, and jealousy and will provide compelling reading. Hopefully, telling the story will prove beneficial to families who are struggling with mental health issues along with disorders on the autism spectrum, including Asperger’s.
I first began writing four years ago, drawing on my life experiences. My brother Thaddeus, who had a great impact on my life, was difficult. Much later after his death, the family came to realize he probably suffered from Asperger's and was unable to relate to others, and me in particular. It was the inspiration for my first book Tadville, named after a game he controlled during childhood that I could never win. Once the door was opened by that effort I began to look at my life experiences outside the family that counterbalanced the insecurities of childhood, about the people who encouraged and believed in me. Suscipiat Dominus was written and published in 2013. The title is the name of the prayer I had been unable to memorize as an altar boy. The last two memoirs The Last Ride and POP are about the final days of my parent's lives. Poignant and emotionally charged these are tragic stories of two people who individually were talented but a disaster together even up to the end of their lives. THE SAM AND DON SHOW is a combination of those two stories that fittingly belong together even though they never seemed to belong together in life.
Tadville by Joaquin Bowman Tadville is the story of growing up with undiagnosed mental illness, written from the perspective and experiences of a younger brother. The story, which spans a fifty-year period, begins in Hollywood, California, in the 1940s, where an aspiring actress forsakes her dream of glamour and remains home with her two boys in a destructive marriage. Infidelity and sometimes violent arguments become routine in the family life the author characterizes as the freak show. Tad, the older boy and subject of the story, enjoys the complete devotion of his mother, who labors to conceal his unusual characteristics, primarily associated with Asperger's syndrome. When the Bowmans relocate to Pennsylvania, family life eventually dissolves into relationships where love and companionship are used as bargaining chips. Not until the author spends time with a warm and loving aunt and her large family does he realize how broken his family truly is. "Aunt Eleanor, my mother's sister, was short, motherly, and kind. I envied my cousins, and as a seven-year-old kid, I wondered why our family couldn't be more like theirs." The sometimes sad and funny story moves quickly through the years until Tad, as an adult, refuses to relinquish the "game" he imagines himself winning, then finally admits defeat shortly before his death in 1994. Family members look back and remember the fatally flawed person they loved and, at times, feared. The story reveals the conspiracy of silence surrounding his illness and unusual behavior, a mistake that will affect future generations. Tadville, a brother's story, profiles a world of fantasy, domination, power, and jealousy and will provide compelling reading. Hopefully, telling the story will prove beneficial to families who are struggling with mental health issues along with disorders on the autism spectrum, including Asperger's.
Tadville by Joaquin Bowman Tadville is the story of growing up with undiagnosed mental illness, written from the perspective and experiences of a younger brother. The story, which spans a fifty-year period, begins in Hollywood, California, in the 1940s, where an aspiring actress forsakes her dream of glamour and remains home with her two boys in a destructive marriage. Infidelity and sometimes violent arguments become routine in the family life the author characterizes as the freak show. Tad, the older boy and subject of the story, enjoys the complete devotion of his mother, who labors to conceal his unusual characteristics, primarily associated with Asperger’s syndrome. When the Bowmans relocate to Pennsylvania, family life eventually dissolves into relationships where love and companionship are used as bargaining chips. Not until the author spends time with a warm and loving aunt and her large family does he realize how broken his family truly is. “Aunt Eleanor, my mother’s sister, was short, motherly, and kind. I envied my cousins, and as a seven-year-old kid, I wondered why our family couldn’t be more like theirs.” The sometimes sad and funny story moves quickly through the years until Tad, as an adult, refuses to relinquish the “game” he imagines himself winning, then finally admits defeat shortly before his death in 1994. Family members look back and remember the fatally flawed person they loved and, at times, feared. The story reveals the conspiracy of silence surrounding his illness and unusual behavior, a mistake that will affect future generations. Tadville, a brother’s story, profiles a world of fantasy, domination, power, and jealousy and will provide compelling reading. Hopefully, telling the story will prove beneficial to families who are struggling with mental health issues along with disorders on the autism spectrum, including Asperger’s.
A Glossary of Old Syrian: l–z is the second of two volumes that aim to map the lexicon of Old Syrian as it can be extracted and reconstructed from the (Old Akkadian) Eblaite through the Old and Middle Babylonian corpora. Referring to a continuum of dialects spoken in the Syrian-Levantine and Syrian-Mesopotamian regions through the third and second millennia BCE, “Old Syrian” is a diachronically conservative, geographically pluricentric, and pragmatically multilayered linguistic cluster. As such, the Glossary pays special attention to the distribution of lexical data along diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic criteria. Given the extent and widely dispersed nature of this data, entries are supported by the most representative corpora of the Old Syrian linguistic landscape. Each entry is headed by an etymon, a kind of prelinguistic consonantal skeleton, and further information about different lexemes, their roots, and their derivations is provided in subentries. As the lexicography of Old Syrian remains uncertain, the Glossary includes leading interpretative opinions alongside the most relevant Semitic material to corroborate the lexical choices it adopts. Bibliographical references are succinct and restricted, as a rule, to texts easily found in any Assyriological or Semitic library. Intended as a reference work in support of future study, A Glossary of Old Syrian offers a clear view of the state of the field.
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