An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work. Updated and expanded, it reflects new requirements and initiatives for center directors and addresses topics including cultivating a vision, developing "systems thinking" for management roles, implementing principles and strategies for mentoring, building a learning community for adults and children, and bringing visions to life. The Visionary Director provides directors with information to perform their jobs with motivation and creativity.
It occurred to me years ago that many people think they are good Christians because they attend church every Sunday and that's all they have to do; they don't know they need to be more understanding and more loving.
“New Age philosophy illumines every page of this unique cookbook . . . Lapanja wants cooks to follow wherever their imaginations lead.” —Booklist A lively and delectable tribute to the sensuous arts of cooking, loving, and living, Romancing the Stove is sure to stir the senses, and tickle the taste buds! Combining crowd-pleasing original recipes, mythology, and fail-safe trade secrets, chef and culinary courtesan Margie Lapanja (famous for her Cowboy Cookie recipe—revealed for the first time in this book) has concocted the most unique, engaging collection of mouth-watering menus and fun stories. Romancing the Stove is a delicious read, filled with goddess tales, practical tips, fascinating food facts, divine dishes, and a fine seasoning of quotes. Lapanja reveals the pleasure of the table for everyone from skilled gourmets to the ultimate kitchen klutz. Recipes include dishes as diverse as classic Pain Perdu (known to the French as “Lost Bread”)—a resourceful resolution for those unloved loaves that were destined to go stale—to Love Apple Linguine and Deepest, Darkest Devil’s Food Cake. “A cookbook that happens to contain a bit of magic. It’s the most delicious book on this list . . . I’ve been making Margie’s Cowboy Cookies (page 60) for almost two decades.” —Witchyography, “6 Great Books on Kitchen Witchery”
In the town of Mayville, W.V., child abuse, suspense and murder come to the small quiet community. In the midst of tragedy romance blooms between Nurse Maggie and Sheriff Parker which is very unexpected for both. Nurse Maggie Harrison works at the local hospital in the Pediatric Department where Sammie Parrish, age eight is admitted for a seizure that turns out to be a result of child abuse. Maggie and the other Nurses are horrified that this happened to a special and small quiet child they all have come to love greatly, especially Nurse Maggie. Mayville's new Sheriff, Ben Parker had come to the quiet town to heal from the horror of police life in Washington, D.C. where he lived, loved and lost. His lovely wife, Emily had died in a shooting incident and he almost did not recover from loosing her. When Ben meets the beautiful green eyed quiet Nurse he feels some life returning to him. He wonders if she is taken and decides to find out. He feels the ever presence of his dead wife Emily keeping him safe from above and pushing him towards Maggie as though it was destined to for them to be together...
Margie receives a golden opportunity to live her life over again beginning at age three. Her journey is filled with many pitfalls, much jocularity and an amazing amount of lessons. Will you follow her journey as she goes through all seven levels?
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