When the character finds herself in a dark place, she tries several different ways to come out but finds them useless. On the brink of giving up, the character turns to the old teachings of her grandmother and decides to do things through God’s way.
This book is a compilation of my poems since I was a little girl. In 1982, as a fifth grader, my Mother encouraged me to write in a journal. As an English teacher she always emphasized writing and I was able to use my poems, stories and essays as an outlet for my feelings. These poems are precious, personal and they are expressions of me. I was told it was time to share them. Join me on a trip from being a little girl to a teenager who thought she was a woman and who thought she knew everything. This literary journey of poems starts with me tells my dear Grandmother that she is my best friend. One of the poems confesses my love to my unborn son who is now a man. These poems chronicle my relationships with teenage boyfriends and also my marriages with men whom I loved and hated Read on as I reveal the deep friendship and spiritual bond I shared with the powerful "Man of God." Finally, the last essay expresses my joy and sense of relief after finally having my doctoral dissertation approved! What a journey This project is a labor of love, of smiles, of fear and of tears that spans a period of over 25 years. Enjoy this time as you travel with me on this, "Journey to Womanhood: Chronicles of a Girl Grown up to Soon.
Adversity Gives You Two Choices: Collapse or Grow Stronger As a child, Gabrielle Ford loved dance and dreamed of becoming a prima ballerina.That dream was shattered by rare neuromuscular disease that would eventually place her in a wheelchair. Gabe not only struggled with the devastation of the illness, but endured constant and cruel bullying from classmates. The constant torment took her on a path of depression and isolation. That all changed when Izzy, a long-eared coonhound pup, entered Gabe's life. Izzy became Gabe's best friend and constant companion. When this special friend mysteriously developed a condition with mirroring Gabe's, Gabe re-entered the world to get Izzy the best treatment available. Speaking out for the voice-less Izzy gave her the courage to speak out for another voiceless group: the thousands of children bullied in American schools every day. Through countless personal trials, Gabe found her way back to stage. Today, she is an outspoken advocate against school bullying speaking at schools and conferences across the country. Gabe's remarkable journey has drawn national attention from The Today Show, Animal Planet's A Pet Story, and Cosmopolitan magazine, among others. Gabe autobiography shares even more of the inspirational details from her incredible life as a way to encourage others that anything is possible. www.gabeandizzy.com
When placed in a terrifying financial dilemma, the author decides to rely on the old teachings of her grandmother, a spiritual missionary. This booklet is for individuals seeking prosperity yet going about it the wrong way.
A shift in public demand towards more organic and locally produced fruit and vegetables has been occurring across the United States in recent years. A common practice in organic fruit production is the application of organic ground covers to supply nutrients while enhancing other soil properties. A need for research exists in the southern region of the U.S. examining the effects of regionally applicable ground cover and nutrient management on nitrogen availability and the microbial community to provide information to organic farmers in the region. Two studies were conducted to determine how 12 treatment combinations of four ground covers (compost, wood chips, paper mulch, and mow-and-blow) and three organic fertilizers (poultry litter, organic commercial fertilizer, and a no-fertilizer control) applied every year in April from 2006 to 2013 affected soil properties. In the first study, soils from March 2007 and 2013 were analyzed to determine the long-term effects of the treatment combinations on soil chemical and biological properties at the 0-10 and 10-30 cm depths. In addition, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) was performed on soil microbial DNA to determine if treatment additions over time had altered the denitrifying community. In the second study, soil biological and chemical properties were measured at the 0-10 cm soil depth before (March) and after (May) yearly ground cover applications (April) to determine how nutrient contents and microbial populations responded to additions immediately (May) and long-term (March) and if responses were the same each year or changed through life of the orchard. Organic matter increased through time regardless of ground cover treatment, with compost resulting in the greatest increase from 1.84 % in 2007 to 5.29 % in 2013. Soil water content, electrical conductivity, microbial biomass nitrogen (N), ammonium (NH4+-N), and nitrate-N were all greater in 2013 than in 2007. Microbial species richness (R) was greatest in 2013 in soil receiving compost and wood chips compared to the other ground cover treatments and R in those two ground covers also increased significantly from 2007 to 2013. Shannon-Weaver index of diversity in 2013 progressed from greatest to least in the order of compost ≥ wood chips ≥ paper ≥ mow-and-blow control with diversity in wood chips significantly increasing from among the lowest diversity in 2007 to among the highest diversity in 2013. The second study revealed many treatment differences that were not apparent in the first study when comparing only the beginning and end of the study. Soil organic carbon (C) and N, microbial biomass C and N, NH4+-N, and enzyme activities increased through time, peaked during 2009-2011, and declined to levels with relatively few differences between 2007 and 2013 values. Denitrifying communities (nirK) analyzed by DGGE, were a sensitive indicator of treatment effects responding to ground cover treatments in 2007. The trends through time in dissolved nutrients and microbial biomass suggest that the microbial community was not growing continually over time, but shifting in composition and diversity of nirK-containing organisms and possibly other groups facilitating N-cycling.
John McKenzie was born and raised in the small town of Winslow, Kentucky. He and his family have lived their lives in a cloud of secrets. Now his secrets are coming back to haunt him. Its up to John, with the help of his friends, to look for the answers that have eluded him his entire life. But the answers he seeks lie within his family... both past and present. Can he get the anwswers he needs before the ghosts of his past com for them all?
*****Pre-order and release week discounted price!***** From New York Times and USATODAY Bestselling Author Nicole Williams: Her heart can’t be destroyed by the same person twice. At least that’s what Clara Abbot finds herself hoping when she runs into Boone Cavanaugh less than an hour after returning to Charleston. As kids, Clara and Boone had been each other’s firsts, and no one or nothing could stand in the way of their forever. But all kids have to grow up sometime. The troubled son of the town drunk winding up with the firstborn daughter of the local royalty was a happy ending even the most imaginative of fairy tales couldn’t make believable. Their fable came to an end as most do: tragically. Boone might have done the leaving, but it was Clara who got away and made a new life for herself in California. But after seven years of dodging her hometown, she’s only back in Charleston for seven days to celebrate her sister’s wedding. She won’t let her overbearing family or her run-in with Boone rattle her—though rattling her is obviously Boone’s primary objective. Boone is her past and her past is behind her, a mere speck in the rearview. So why does she feel it coming back every time she looks at him? Why does she see it every time he looks back? Just when Clara’s life can’t possibly get more complicated, the ground shifts, and she discovers just how far her family was willing to go to keep the wrong boy out of her life. Was it really Boone who left her? Or was it Clara who left him? The truth will be hard to face. Especially when she discovers most of her life has been built on lies.
This chronicle of ghastly frights from the Motor City is not for the faint of heart. Founded on the legend of the Nain Rouge, Detroit has haunted hotspots aplenty, each with its own blood-curdling tale. Music from pianos that play by themselves and crying apparitions echo throughout The Whitney mansion. Beginning at the time of its construction, the Leland Hotel has been the site of an unusually high number of murders, suicides, and freak accidents. It has even been described as Detroit's portal to Hell. Various shadowy figures have been spotted darting throughout the former Detroit Police 6th Precinct building, including a mysterious boy. Join Michigan-based author and paranormal investigator Nicole Beauchamp as she leads you down some of Detroit's darkest corridors and into its tragic past.
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