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Don’T Call Me Mama
One night, as Mama bathed me, I asked why she didnt paint her nails. Who have you seen wearing nail polish? she asked. The blond lady Daddy takes me to see on Sundays. After my parents were divorced, I overheard Grandma say, Yetta, your baggage will hamper you from finding another husband. So as Mama bathed me, she said, Dont call me Mama. Hearing this was hurtful. My father hadnt taken me with him when he left. Now, I felt Mama no longer wanted me. I was four years old. Who would take care of me? It was a desperate, sometimes devastating journey through the depths of despair I lived daily as a preschooler. Then it was a tumultuous adolescence with my malicious grandmother. How did I find the courage to survive the journey through these challenges? You will find it an exciting yet uplifting reading experience.
Clean Windows
When jobs are scarce, a hard working father is let go to make way for the boss's son. An opportunity opens to look for work on the mainland, but when the family arrives they encounter more difficulties than they had first planned on. Bullied and beaten, the teen son goes through a rough transition. Not wanting to further trouble his parents, he is soon faced with a decision of whether or not to join a gang? Could the God they first learned of really be a help? This resourceful unwelcome family experiences many twists and turns while discovering talents that they didn't know they had. Facing trials is a true adventure as they adjust to the surroundings of their new land.
Time After Happily-Ever-After
Alzheimer's took small bites out of Betty Chandler's husband since the onset of the disease. When Peter dies Betty wails, "e;My life is over!"e; Will she abandon any vision of a future, and wait for death as the reality of her existence? Becoming a widow is a time of transition. Betty starts the journey of self-discovery. Does morality provide comfort? Friends insist Betty take a cruise. She meets Alfonse D'Medici, and encounters a world filled with adventure, and romance. Will Betty explore the current mores of dating and sex? Has she the savvy to triumph over a man who parks diagonally in a parallel world and survive?
The Red Line
It’s heartwarming to see how Ethel approached her new living situation with an open mind and a willingness to make connections with her new neighbors. It can be challenging to move to a new place as a senior, and Ethel's initial feelings of being a stranger gradually transformed as she made the effort and tried to get to know the people around her. Ethel's decision to slow up made and make the effort to build relationships with her neighbors was a wise one. By doing so, she was able to find like-minded individuals who were also young at heart, despite their age. A reminder that age doesn't define a person's spirit or capacity for friendship. The story of the two travelers at the well serve...
The Fortunate Child
It was a long, sometimes devastating, journey Maxine was forced to undertake through the depths of despair as a preschooler, and then on through a tumultuous adolescence during which she was ignored yet at the same time abused by a un-caring mother who daily left her with a malevolent grandmother who similarly mistreated her. Instructed by her divorced mother to no longer call her Mama,in an effort to enhance her own marketability as a perspective wife to some unsuspecting man. Fortunately, Maxine was endowed with the guiles and street smarts that allowed her to survive. The pain of her youth was converted, of necessity, into the toughness and unwillingness to accept what appeared to be inev...
No Time for Tears
Hannah Yulevich, a distraught and discouraged widow wants to leave Russia after the pogrom of 1909. She hopes to take her sixteen-year old daughter, Sofia, to a safer place to escape further "e;terrible incidents."e;She's advised by her Rabbi of an opportunity to go to America, and Hannah is willing to take the risk to emigrate. By chance, she is reunited with her brother along the way. Hannah, Sofia, and Boris travel to America, and the industrious woman encounters opportunities she's able to turn to her advantage.Hannah comes to realize being forced to give up all she had has brought her to a place where she has more than she'd ever imagined possible. Nevertheless, the solution that was instigated by Hannah for her daughter's happiness now requires her to let go her most prized possession.
Clean Window
Come follow the mundane adventures of Carlos and Maria Lopez, and their son Georgio as they overcome their difficulties in a new country. Be a witness when Georgio’s prayer is answered. You’ll be amused and surprised as this family figure out how to better themselves in this land of opportunity and achieve the difficult journey from rags to riches.
Best Poems of 1995
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Our Day Out
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free from school. 'The skill and zest of the show . . . derive from its success in following the adult argument through while preserving all the fun of a story mainly played by children . . . I have rarely seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.' The Times This edition contains the music to the play.
