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An Angel with Secrets is a novel, dealing with human experience and imaginary characters. When Mary takes the fall for her boyfriend Luke and goes to jail, she has no idea her fate is not the only one at stake. She's pregnant, and she gives birth to her daughter Angel behind bars, where Mary raises her for the first eighteen months of Angel's life, until Luke takes Angel from the prison. However, Angel quickly discovers that living with Luke and his girlfriend Sophia has its own problems, as she is frequently caught in the crossfire of their fractious relationship. Luke, ultimately, leaves Sophia and Angel alone. Although she is only six years old Angel is convinced Sophia would be better of...
An educator from Indiana moves to California, a new culture, to start a new life. She soon finds she is ill-equipped for her new surroundings, but rises like a storm to overcome or conceal any deficiencies. She is arrogant and self-confident, becoming a high society lady hosting lavish events and outlandish parties. She and her husband travel world-wide. They have multiple homes. They care for their family. They entertain their friends. They give back to their community. They support various charities. They never ever discuss their own needs, wants and providing for their future. In all the excitement and pleasure, they neglect themselves and the spiritual divine spark that brought them toge...
The Extended Hand is a "contemplative memoir" that covers two seemingly separate lives. When Robert answers the phone, he has trouble understanding his neighbor's question: "What do you mean, there's a notice in today's paper listing our condo for sale?" Through the kitchen windows, he can see the ocean waves rolling in toward the Maui beach. Surely there must be a mistake. But when he calls his wife Marti on the eastside of Seattle, he learns the truth: "Yes, I filed for bankruptcy." Once, as a child, Marti fell through an open manhole into a sewer and was rescued by the extended hand of a caring man. Now, even though her business mistakes have wiped out the assets of a thirty-year marriage...
This book will help you find the secrets of your innermost self. Following a set of practical exercises you'll discover the actual traits that make you unique. Then you will evaluate those traits to decide if your profile represents your ideal self--the self you seek to be. Knowing Yourself...or Not explains; What makes you special. What makes you not so special. Why you act the way you do. How you like to be treated. What settings make you most comfortable. Personal traits that may be limiting your success.
"Every day as you guide and nourish, you have new chances to get things right, to sow seeds of love, acceptance, appreciation, encouragement and confidence." Although the parent-child relationship is perhaps the most obvious example of care giving, opportunities for this type of support and guidance abound in everyday life. By taking time to reflect and consider our own childhoods, we may become better equipped to understand and relate to others--especially children--as they navigate their own unique challenges. This learning experience explores techniques and guidance for doing just this. The first chapter outlines four parenting styles--both the strengths and weaknesses inherent to each--a...
THE BRAIDING OF DIVERSE LIVES: The Story of Mitsy Fisher focuses on friendship, loneliness, loss and love. At the story’s outset, Luke looks on as a culmination of Mitsy’s lifelong dream, her refuge for homeless, abused, and orphaned children, goes up in flames. Luke recalls his relationship with Mitsy and these streets during his adolescence. Now, Mitsy is gravely injured when she rushes back inside the burning building to save her beloved dog, Blackie. As she lies in a hospital bed in a medically induced coma, her future uncertain, her current boyfriend, Andy, revisits her past, reading to Mitsy from a series of notebooks and journals she has been keeping since she was a young girl. As...
When Mary Turner entered the world, she was already her parents' least-favorite child. Filled with ambition but always seeming to be lacking some crucial skill, Mary left home immediately after graduating high school and set her sights on the endless horizon before her. Mary had had a difficult childhood; when she was young, her grandparents had died in a tragic accident that left the entire family--especially her father, Kenneth--shrouded in a heavy grief. Once on her own, Mary kept her eyes fixed on the future, and soon that future came to include a man named Adam. Though Adam and Mary had a difficult relationship, they eloped in Las Vegas and returned home a (mostly) happily married coupl...
Are you frustrated with the pace at which you live and despite the rapid pace, you don’t seem to be getting any closer to your dreams? Do you exhibit any of these classic symptoms that indicate a life out of balance: anxiety, depression, irritability, insomnia, hopelessness, and even chronic physical ailments. Are you wishing to establish a healthy lifestyle that will last a lifetime? Then you are ready to hear the messages of the giant oak tree. The giant oak has witnessed great strength, limitations, fears, courageous moments, love, hate, and disappointments. The giant oak offers wisdom and solace. It buffers and shades from the storms of life. It has experienced the beginning phases of ...
"What are you deep down inside? What changes would you like to make in your personality? This book reveals the secrets of your innermost self. Follow a set of practical exercises and you'll discover the personality traits that make you unique. Then evaluate those traits to decide if your profile represents your ideal self -- and is an expression of your highest potential."--Page 4 of cover