Tom is a young man from the traveller community who has a six-year-old sister, Luckry (Lucretia) who's a bit of a pain, and a 'girlfriend' (don't say that or she'll slap him) Nat. All is going well in a kids growing up kind of way until fracking starts in the local countryside when Tom gets his nickname 'Blotch' owing to the burns he gets from corrosive chemicals stored in the mining company's yard. But the Travelling community has some beliefs that are not held by everyone and such strong family ties that even death cannot separate generations. And when Luckry swears she's received instructions from dead Big Gran involving throwing money in a wishing well she just has to do it, even if means bringing on an earthquake ... Robert Dawson's Tuesday, Wednesday Quake Day is an endearing adventure story for children which has a central theme of acceptance and a big brother looking out for his little sister.
Much has been said about happiness--about what it is and how to get it. Little has been said about how to stay happy. We all share the experience that happiness is hard to achieve and even harder to hold on to. We are not often happy, and when we are we don't stay happy for long. In contrast, we are often unhappy, and when we are it seems to be enduring. Why? In How to Be Happy in Spite of Yourself, author Dr. Robert Dawson offers a look at happiness and explains why instinct needs us to be unhappy. It answers the following questions: - What is wrong with me or with others? - Is something broken that needs to be fixed? - Is it possible for me to be happy more of the time? - Can I get better at snapping out of being unhappy? Dawson details the three-step habit we need to develop to moderate the negative effect of the human survival instinct on the quality of our life. When we realize our instinct is undermining our happiness and see it for what it is--a normal and necessary automatic reaction to life's challenges--we are on the way to being happy in spite of it.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Every place has its unique sensibility; a flavour that makes it special. Whether one is going somewhere new or discovering the secrets that make the familiar seem foreign, where you are matters as much as when you’re there. The stories in this fifth collection from Plan B Magazine occur at the intersection of the familiar and the strange, the rise of the unexpected and the twist in the road. Let’s take a journey to the unknown. Table of Contents: "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck "Broad Daylight" by Eve Fisher "This Land of the Strange" by Math Bird "Please Wait" by Robert Dawson "Fill In The Blanks" by Stephen D. Rogers "The Double Iron Cross" by William E. Wallace "Red Bait" by Edd Vick & Manny Frishberg "Broken Hearts" by Laird Long "Intimate Knowledge" by Suzanne Baginskie "The Asshat Fund" by Todd Morr "Mysterious Private Investigations" by Peter DiChellis "Coffee and Killings" by Simon Maltman "The Good Neighbor" by Lawrence Buentello
Now in a single collection by editor Katrina Archer, get all of the short climate fiction published by Little Blue Marble in 2017. M. Darusha Wehm shows us our blue marble as viewed from Mars. Anatoly Belilovsky meditates on family and love in a drowned future Ireland. Alex Shvartsman controls the weather. Robert Dawson evokes the nostalgia of a child for gas-powered cars. Holly Schofield's highlights wildlife in distress with an allegory of clowns. Liam Hogan takes the slacker's doctrine to its logical extreme. Matt Colborn's toaster fixes the planet. William Delman gives us quiet persistence in the face of disaster. And Ariel Bolton investigates the plight of refugees from the North Pole. Get inspired to change our climate for the better with stories from these distinctive voices of speculative fiction.
When Robert Dawson died in 1997, he left a substantial body of work. Among his papers were the working ideas for Painters and their Houses. 'Connected to my great love of painting has always been an equally strong desire to know something about painters themselves, their circumstances and their lives.' In Painters and their Houses Dawson visits and draws the former London houses of 22 artists, including Sickert, Whistler, Constable, Canaletto, Palmer, Rossetti and Cruikshank.
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