This is a short book about my dad's life. His humor, his faith his compassion and his willingness to help other's in any way he can. The way he touched the lives of everyone he met. The opportunity he had to travel to many places and his ability to always see the brighter side.
A collection of new and some of my older and favorite poems about the passion, romance, understanding and unconditonal love shared in a loving, fullfilling relationship. An amazing person who enriched my life and shared the chance and opportunity to turn a dream in life into a reality. Thank you.
In recognition & awareness of all types of disease one may encounter in their family & lives, Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Strokes, ALS, Cancer etc., the stuggles throughout life and finding humor & love in the face of it. A short book I've written about the memories I've shared with my mom throughout the years. Her strength, love, laughter & support in some of the best & some of the most difficult times in my life.
Some of my new, some old writings expressive of love, romance, passion & understanding in an incredible, loving relationship & having the courage to trust & to open your heart to love.
Emotional, passionate and loving. Expressions of poetry. A sterling rose is said to be the perfect rose. If in our lives we are fortunate enough to encounter someone with the beauty and qualities of this exquisite rose, we should value and appreciate them and be thankful they are a part of our life.
An emotional book of poetry I've written expressing the pain and effects of heartache and disappointments in relationships, no matter how loving they may be.
A short book with a new look and perspective on the tough times that we may encounter in relationships and ideas and ways to survive them. A loving relationship can become better and stronger when we manage to endure the rough spots as well as the pleasant ones.
A new poetry collection I've written, sensual & loving of romance, passion and understanding. Our hearts can speak so many things without words, simply by just knowing.
An original collection of poems I've written thru the past several years describing the intensity of love, the heights of passion and the pain of a heartache in all types of relationships.
A small collection of poems I've written about love, passion, misunderstandings and laughter encountered in loving, passionate, playful yet sometimes diffucult relationships.
A revealing guide to a career as a midwife written by award-winning health reporter Sandi Doughton and based on the real-life experiences of the chief of the midwifery practice group at the University of Washington—required reading for anyone pursuing a path to this life-changing profession. Becoming a Midwife takes you behind the scenes to find out what it’s really like, and what it really takes, to become a midwife. Midwives are medical professionals who provide care for childbearing women on their birthing journey. It is a growing career that combines compassion and emotional intelligence with nursing and healthcare. Expert midwife Mary Lou Kopas, MN, CNM, specializes in healthy pregnancy and birth. As a veteran of the field, she has helped countless women on the path to labor by delivering their babies and following up with breastfeeding support, newborn care, and insight into the many psycho-social challenges women face in the transition to motherhood. Gain professional wisdom as acclaimed health reporter Sandi Doughton shadows Kopas at work, telling the story of her professional path. Learn the ins and outs of this dynamic job, helping soon-to-be mothers bring new life into the world.
English All Around Us E (advanced level) is designed to help advanced students develop the skills necessary to achieve a good score on the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). There are twenty units that cover a variety of practical topics. In the first half of the book, the passages are related to daily life and topical issues. The themes covered in the second half of the book are more business-oriented. The topics covered in English All Around Us E are: Current Affairs, Daily Life, Computers, Technology, Career Planning, Business, and Economy. Each unit consists of an advanced reading passage and reading comprehension questions. The readings are designed to be longer and more challenging in order to reflect the standard required for the actual TOEIC. A short test is provided in each unit so that students can test their knowledge of the unit's vocabulary and phrases. An additional reading passage and a cloze passage on related topics are also provided for further practice. At the end of each unit, students can reinforce what they have learned by answering questions on issues raised in preceding passages.
Poems I've written, some in a different style if writing full of romance, passion, fun, heartache and unconditional love experienced in life and loving relationships.
Descriptive of a journey through trying & diffucult times. Writings of romance, passion, trust, betrayal and unconditional love in loving yet sometimes tumultuous relationships.
A relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies' In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India. Little did the women know that Vern and his accomplices would secretly pack two tonnes of hashish into the vehicle along the way. This shocking inside story chronicles Toddie and Beezie's wild ride across continents and oceans to our shores, their arrest by Australian Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents, and all that the women faced in the aftermath. On the ground at the time, journalist Sandi Logan draws from his interviews with those attached to the events, and accounts in the women's diaries, to tell the incredible tale of an unlikely pair who became infamous and their fight for justice.
Follow this captivating historical account of the Seminoles from an ancient Florida of some 30 million years ago, when it existed only as a few sandy islands in the Gulf of Mexico. Continue on through the Seminole Wars and on to a modern day Florida boasting a highly successful 21st Century Florida Seminole population. Explore how the Paleoindians, the first Native Americans, who were possibly Florida¡_s first ¡°snowbirds¡± lived. Examine the devastating effects of the European arrival on the Native populations. See how the Seminoles adapted culturally to Florida, and how they lived so harmoniously with nature. Take a look at the role of the Seminole chiefs and black Seminoles in the three Seminole Wars. Empathize with the wrenching and unnecessary removal of many of the Florida Seminoles to ¡°Indian Territory.¡± Discover the fascinating facts behind the three Seminole Wars. Property was not the real issue behind these Wars¡-SLAVERY was the root cause. Come with Dr. Towers on a journey that will take you through the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of these proud and unconquered people. ¡°Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.¡± Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1, Spring.
When the creatures in her dark drawings come to life, Chelsea finds that the mysterious Geoff is the only person she can confide in. But she can't help wondering who she's kissing: her tender confidant or the dangerous Byronic rebel bent on shocking his detached father.Starting over in the South Carolina Lowcountry is just what sixteen-year-old Chelsea needs. Unfortunately, moving also means living with her mom's snobbish British novelist employer and his moody son Geoffrey. Troubled and reckless after his brother's mysterious death, Geoff often mimics his father's literary favorite, Lord Byron, acting "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Knowing that her new home likely used to be a slave holding plantation doesn't make Chelsea feel any more at home. Chelsea buries herself in her art, though the darkness of her drawings troubles her and others who see them. When people in the Gullah and Geechee community point out that she has been drawing Boo Hags and haints -powerful and terrifying creatures of local legend and superstition- she starts to wonder about her own heritage and her connection to the Sea Islands. She begins to question her own grasp on reality when it seems those creatures start making their way out of her drawings and into real life.It's clear that Geoff has some secrets of his own, but he might be the only person she can confide in. Chelsea must decide who she can trust, when nothing in the Lowcountry is what it seems.
Phone calls often bring good news. The one placed in late October of 1967 proved to be a life-changing experience for both young journalist Sandi Gould and United Press International bureau manager John Kady. Little did they know they were embarking on a lifelong friendship that would extend from the office in Columbus, Ohio, into everyday life for nearly a half of a century. In Newsroom Buddies, Sandi and John alternate their personal stories of working together for more than twenty-two yearsfrom the late 1960s through 1990. They tell how they enjoyed the high points of life as journalists and how they handled being survivors as they watched the company they loved dwindle to a mere shadow of what it once was. Even as life took them in different directions, they came together once again through their love of writing. It was a friendship only one event could separate. Praise for Newsroom Buddies Its very touching and obviously a great read for anyone with UPI in his blood. Tom Foty, CBS Radio News Interesting the way alternating chapters tell the story of the glory days of a once-prominent wire service. Ron Cohen, coauthor of Down to the Wire
Theyre back! As General Patrick would quickly learn, the evil lurking in the night skies appears not only to be back, but this time something is different and far more sinister. Are these new Gomers here to make peace or to conquer? Is this a new war or merely a continuation of the last one? Did this enemy learn from past mistakes, or is the world now dealing with a new threat? As the Gomer saga continues, the world is facing a newer and far more insidious threat than ever before, and it can only be hoped that we made good use of the few years since the last war. What is certain is that the Gomers now attacking our world are far smarter, and far more ruthless, than anything mankind ever faced before. This new hell exploding in the night must be stopped! But how? As in the first Gomer War, it falls to both General Patrick and President Blanchard to form allegiances around the world, and to amass the necessary and surviving technology to face this new threat. This isnt a coalition of the willing, but instead a massing of all mankind on a scale unforeseen, even during the last Gomer attacks. Mankind is being forced to fight a desperate battle to the death, and like the last war, this time there can be no second place. For the participants in this war, the hell in the night must be stopped without remorse or mercy. Praise for They Own the Night, The First Gomer Wars: They Own the Night is an all-around good ride. ...readers of hard sci-fi will appreciate it at every level... Meticulously planned and structured, it is clearly the work of an author who thoroughly understands the subject matter. ForeWord Reviews Clarion Review If you like a neat shot of military SF...this book will be hard to put down. blue ink ...this brawny procedural of interplanetary warfare will earn its stars and stripes... Kirkus Reviews
More than a century ago, Mason County was a much different, harsher place. Arriving by foot and boat to find a dense wilderness, hardy pioneers carved out tiny settlements stretching right to the coast of Lake Michigan. When the lumber industry arrived in Michigan, the settlements grew to boomtowns and new towns formed. To serve the lumber industry, the railroad spread across the county, and immigrants and settlers flooded in to have their chance at the American Dream. But when the lumber ran out, the mills closed down. Jobs disappeared, and so did these towns. Out of the thirty-nine settlements, only two cities and six fading villages remain today. Join local author Sandi Lewis-Malburg as she uncovers the towns that time forgot.
Are we living in an age where we are more boredom-prone? Or are other people boring us? Or could we be that boring person?! In our current information age, we are constantly connected to technology, and have so many varied ways to spend our leisure time that we should all surely never know what boredom feels like. Yet, boredom appears to be on the rise; it seems that the more we have to stimulate us, the more stimulation we crave. In a quest to relieve our boredom, we engage in dangerous risk-taking - from extreme sports to drugs to gambling to anti-social behaviour, or we overindulge in shopping or eating. The Science of Boredom explores the causes and consequences of boredom in the fast-paced twenty-first century. Parents are desperate to keep their children entertained during every waking moment, the education system is geared towards interactivity, and attention spans are dropping as we use multiple devices at all times. But the world of work can be increasingly repetitive and routine, and we are losing the ability to tolerate this everyday tedium. Using Sandi Mann's own ground-breaking research into boredom, this book tells the story of how we act, react and cope when we are bored, and argues that there is a positive side to boredom. It can be a catalyst for humour, fun, reflection, creativity and inspiration. The radical solution to the 'boredom problem' is to harness it rather than try to avoid it. Allowing yourself time away from constant stimuli can enrich your life. We should all embrace our boredom and see the upside of our downtime.
The English All Around Us B (junior level) textbook is designed to give English students practice in question types appearing on the TOEIC, and in general English vocabulary and phrases that are useful for TOEIC preparation. Each of the book's eighteen units concerns general topics that relate to those found in TOEIC tests. The topics covered in English All Around Us B are: People, News, Food, Culture, Travel, Campus, Sports, Language, Daily Life, Shopping, Health, Law, Religion, Natural Environment, Science, Technology, Society, and Relationships. It is general language derived from these topics that provides many of English All Around Us's test questions. However, students preparing for TOEIC should remember that they are not required to know specialized business and technical vocabulary. Accordingly, English All Around Us B is not intended only to teach vocabulary and phrases, but also to create, through reading passages, larger contexts where students will need to think about and respond to the topics herein.
Put on a Happy Face By: Sandi Monack Put on a Happy Face by Sandi Monack is an autobiography about the author’s ancestry and life up until now. As a teen living with her family in New Jersey, she was planning to commit suicide. She and her mother’s relationship and feelings of low self-esteem caused her to feel this way. Follow Sandi as she goes through life, learns to love, and struggles with her suicidal thoughts. This book is an uplifting one. Caring, kindness, and love can change a person from despair to one with a genuine happy face.
Overweight and stressed out, award-winning vocalist, speaker, and author Sandi Patty was teetering on the edge of a meltdown when her trusted doctor and friend issued an ominous warning: “You are cheating your family if you die too soon—and trust me, Sandi, if you don’t do something, you’re going to.” She had to make some changes, and she had to make them now. In The Edge of the Divine, the acclaimed soprano shares the poignant and sometimes humorous story of her journey from the brink of physical disaster toward the abundant life of good health and keen spiritual fulfillment God wants all of us to have. In these pages, Sandi invites you to come along on her journey, which so far has included an eighty-pound weight loss. With insight and creativity, she shares the lessons she has learned and helps you recognize and act on the important “edges” in your own life, those points at which something is likely to begin. She welcomes you to join her in making choices that bring actions in line with priorities while pursuing God’s goal for his beloved children—the abundantly rewarding life awaiting us beyond The Edge of the Divine.
Pre-order Sandi Toksvig's new novel FRIENDS OF DOROTHY now - coming in September 2024 The long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved characters - presenter of QI, former host of The Great British Bake Off 'Wise and kind... part celebration, part confession... it will make you miss your stop' Observer 'A fun-filled, fact-packed, memorable ride' Sunday Times 'Life-affirming and addictive' Sunday Express Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus. From a brief history of lady gangsters at Elephant and Castle to anecdotes about boarding school, this is the long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved characters. Presenter of QI, former host of The Great British Bake Off, writer, broadcaster, activist and comic on stage, screen and radio for nearly forty years: this is an autobiography with a difference - as only Sandi Toksvig can tell it. A funny and moving trip through memories, musings and the many delights on the number 12 route, Between the Stops is also an inspiration to us all to get off our phones, look up and talk to each other because as Sandi says: 'some of the greatest trips lie on our own doorstep'.
A small collection of poems I've written describing the emotional rollercoaster of heartbreak, passion, happiness & misunderstandings in loving relationships that sometimes become difficult or encounter unexpected twists & turns.
In this eye-opening book, an occupational therapist shows how at least a third of our time at work involves managing our emotions and shows the life-enhancing ways in which emotions can used.
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