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"I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A COWBOY ..." Journey through the dusty plains of Texas and the rugged mountains of Colorado in author Jim Duke's debut, DANCES WITH DONKEYS: The Memoir Of A Half-Assed Cowboy-the often hilarious, occasionally poignant, sometimes hair-raising, and always entertaining tales of a man who dropped out of high school and took off for Texas to become a cowboy.In this captivating memoir, Duke recounts his adventures and ass-inine misadventures with mules, donkeys and horses as he introduces readers to the complexity and variety of personalities among these intelligent creatures. Through prose and poetry, he shows the deep bond that can form between humans and equines. Whether you're a fan of cowboy culture or just love a good memoir, DANCES WITH DONKEYS is reminiscent of cowboy poet laureate Baxter Black with a twist in the saddle. You'll laugh your "ass" off and come away with a whole new understanding of why little boys and girls grow up dreaming of being cowboys. Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind journey into the heart of the American West.

My life began in a time in Kansas when horses were vital for plowing and reaping, hauling wheat to market, for riding horseback, pulling buggies, surreys and wagons for business and pleasure. It was a time, too, when motor vehicles were just beginning to make their appearance in our more isolated part of the country. Although a story of olden times, this is not a pioneer story as such. Any age has its measure of romance and thrilling progress, but this erawas the beginning of a swift rate of progress the like of which had never been seen. Having observed this continuing acceleration, it is almost as if someone had pushed a fast-forward button.Growing Up on the High Plains of Kansas: Through a Child's Eyes is the story of our dear Mother, Leila "Tiny" Bosler McDougal, who passed away June 6, 2016, at age 107.

A fresh collection of humorous and often satirical essays by Sam Pickering, who keeps telling us it's his last book!

"Get Your Tits Out for the Lads" is the story of one woman's journey into the masculine and rather enigmatic world of football.Since an early age, Sally Freedman dreamt of working in football and finally landed her dream role as protocol manager for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Australia. After the conclusion of the tournament, Sally joined Melbourne City Football Club as head of fan engagement. Since then, Sally has continued her career in sport working for Wellington Phoenix Football Club, Football Australia, the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and UEFA.With a degree in Psychology and a Masters in business specialising in sport management, coupled with an impressive sport focused vocational history, Sally thought she was reasonably well-prepared to launch a career in football.If you want to laugh out loud, cry and say 'wow' more than once, this story will give you that and more!It's the perfect book for those who would like a real insight into what it's like to be an intelligent, young woman working in a male dominated world.

It's about God's Divine protection. How he protected me even I was in eminent danger and didn't realize I needed him I found I could find a scripture that address anything that I was experiencing. Read it out loud and trust God when he says he will not allow us to be plucked from his hand to John 10: 28-30 Even when I got sick and the doctors could not understand why I wasn't dead. They began calling me a medical miracle. I'm kind, easygoing, and a bit shy. I prefer working with people, rather than computers. I would rather be hurt than hurt someone (mentally). Physically? I will try and get out of your way. I am family-oriented. I Love my family, immediate and extended. My children and their children are my greatest joy. I also enjoy working with individuals who are intellectually disabled because they teach us to love unconditionally; they teach us patience. And, for the most part, they teach us compassion. I'm self-reliant, but not to the point where I'm unable to ask for help. I believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and it is my desire to be a useful tool in the hands of my heavenly Father.

"When a loved one is facing their final chapter of life, one of the greatest expressions of grace and love is who they write that chapter with. In hospice, we describe this as a journey. A journey of facing the reality of death while honoring and celebrating life. A journey of tears and laughter, reflection and remembrance. A journey that can reawaken the heart to the eternal hope for which it was fashioned. Join Doris Anne on this journey as she shares with you from a deeply personal and sacred place of what it meant- and what it will always mean - to have been Berne's best friend and wife." Michael Lacey Chaplain Berne had many angel visits during his last days. He remained alert and kept his sense of humor until he passed. I had hoped to keep him home with me, but as his systems shut down that was no longer possible. Our nurse advised an evaluation at the hospital where they gave him three days to live. Berne was blind now. God gave him visions of priests who filled him with love and took away his pain. He was in pallative care so I was allowed to visit. After thirteen days he was transferred to a Hospice/Vet Home. Covid limited my visits to porch visits where he was separated by glass. If he fell or had a low blood sugar I was allowed into his room. Then I could touch him and he would say, "This is wonderful." I wanted people to know that God is always with you. Doris Anne enjoyed a career in education and art. She received her degree from Goucher and married Roland Charles Jr in 1959. They had four children. She moved to Wayne, Maine, and married Howard Holman, becoming a Reading Supervisor, teaching second grade, and Middle school art. She ran watercolor workshops in Maine, New Hampshire and Bermuda. She joined Vincent Hartgen's Travelling Art Exhibits (UM0) in the 70s. She married Berne A. Babineau in 1994. They resided in Brunswick, Maine, and wintered in Florida. Doris Anne wrote eleven children's books featuring birds and visited schools. She is a member of the Maine Arts Commission. She received the Presenter Award from USF for Suncoast Young Author's Celebration. She enjoyed a Story Walk with Come With Me to the Pond in Gardiner. She won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who's Who and has her website with them, Doris Anne Holman.com

Be inspired and encouraged as you read through real life testimonies of godly women and men who have seen the tangible power of the Living God. You will read true stories of miraculous healings, provisions, protection, favor, and be amazed at the awesome power of God. God has moved mountains and made ways in the desert for His children. Through this book, you shall see the goodness and the greatness of the Lord God Almighty who told Wailing Women Worldwide, USA that they shall testify of His mighty power and His mighty deeds. As you read each testimony, may you be encouraged to seek the Presence of God and to grow deeper in your spiritual life and in intimacy with God. The full name of this move is Women Intercessors for the Church and the Nations (a.k.a. Wailing Women Worldwide). The move started in Port Harcourt, Nigeria in May 1998 with a cry from God's heart to His daughters concerning the spiritual state of the Church and the Nigerian nation. Through prophetic utterance, the Lord specifically asked that women be raised from the 36 States of Nigeria (across denominational boundaries) to intercede for the church and the nation. He promised that if women came before Him in true repentance, He would avert the impending judgment on the nation. From that first mobilization effort, the women have held several solemn assemblies, in the regions and in various nations around the world. So far, teams of Wailing Women have carried God's messages to over 110 countries across the globe. No human being can claim to be the founder of the move of the Wailing Women Worldwide. The Lord God Almighty issued the call using the Prophet Jeremiah: This is what the Lord Almighty says: "Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them. Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids (Jeremiah 9:17-18, NIV). www.wailingwomenworldwideusa.org

Inverting Clockwise Time Anticlockwise is a maximalist work of art that is a paganistic blend of poetry and prose that primarily uses a percussively poetic rhythmical vocal gymnastic aesthetic appeal which secondarily leans on the complex linguistic semantic of the English language. It is centred on the life of the persona and the writer himself, during his tenure of study at the University of Eswatini and the social, political, religious and psychological effects that this sociological cosmos wroughts upon an individual. It is a story set in the small African country of Swaziland.

"Tragen und getragen werden" hiess das erste Buch, in dem Ursula Hofer beschrieb, wie sie die Magersucht ihrer 11-jährigen Tochter, deren Selbstverletzungen und Suizidversuche - aber auch den allmählichen Sieg über die Krankheit und die Rückkehr in ein Leben ausserhalb von Kliniken und betreuten Wohnangeboten erlebte.Doch acht Jahre später beginnt das nächste Abenteuer: Inzwischen ist klar, dass Andrina "Aspergerin" ist, also eine autistische Spektrums-Störung hat. Was das bedeutet und wie Mutter, Tochter und der Rest dieser sympathischen Familie mit der Diagnose leben, das beschreibt die Autorin in gewohnt ergreifender Art in Tagebuchform: Mal bedrückend, mal beglückend, jedenfalls nie selbstverständlich: Von der Berufsausbildung Andrinas, über ihre sportlichen Höchstleistungen, über ihre Traumatisierung durch falsche Behandlungen in den Kliniken und deren Auswirkungen auf ihr Leben. Immer deutlicher stellt sich heraus, dass auch die Autorin Autistin ist, die endlich eine Antwort auf die Frage findet, warum ihr Leben immer sehr anstrengend und von Erschöpfungsdepressionen geprägt war.

Join Diane Meyer Lowman, an empty-nester from suburban Connecticut, on her daring journey of self-discovery at the age of 57. In search of fulfillment and purpose, Diane embarks on a life-changing adventure: a senior year abroad studying her literary hero at the prestigious Shakespeare Institute in Stratford Upon Avon. With nothing to hold her back, she sells her belongings and enrolls in the M.A. program, ready to take on the challenge of being a "mature student" and expatriate.In this captivating memoir, Diane shares her transformative experiences, both personal and academic, as she immerses herself in the world of Shakespeare. Follow her on this exciting and sometimes tumultuous journey, as she learns as much about herself as she does about the works of the Bard. Award-winning essayist and author of Nothing But Blue, Diane Meyer Lowman invites you to join her on this physical, emotional, and mental voyage of discovery.

This memoir is based on handwritten letters, cards, and newspaper clippings sent between Carole and Bill Wagener from September 1968 to August 1969. The vernacular is accurate to that time, using words that are no longer politically correct. The letters, based on actual events, may have been compressed. Please note there was a time lapse between these letters due to a lag in the mail. Some names and identifying characteristics were changed to protect privacy, and some dialogue was recreated. The remainder of the book is based on Carole and Bill's memories to the best of their recollection over time. Because this is a war story, some chapters are very graphic and may not suit those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other trauma-related disorders. In addition, the book contains some offensive language and sexual references. Finally, there are several military terms, and various German, French, and Vietnamese phrases mentioned in this book. These terms are defined in the glossary.

This book is a daughter's late-life piecing together of her father's short life. These were years of lost time, time when she knew only the silence surrounding him. He died in 1952 from tuberculosis, leaving behind a wife, a five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son. Like so many who suffered from tuberculosis in that time1 he left no words about what he went through, his worries, his pain. Her mother and other family,members did not mention TB, perhaps to protect the children, or themselves, perhaps out of the too-common shame that accompanies stigmatized illness. No one wanted to remember him as ill, and yet his disease consumed a third of his life and afflicted all his movements, where he worked, where he lived, whom he could embrace. The book relies on memories, photographs, and the few stories family and genealogy tell. And the account, of necessity, researches TB, his TB, likely derived from the cows he loved and milked in New England. This disease would lead him to lose a job, live in two sanatoria (the quarantine strategy of the first half of the twentieth century), and risk a painful and difficult surgery so he could have a life. Although this story is unique, its outlines are not. TB, although now nearly forgotten in the United States despite continuing cases, was the leading infectious disease in the world before Covid. It has not yet been conquered. This story is both an old one and one likely to be repeated in places and times to come.

How does a farm boy brought up on an isolated farm with no electricity, or running water supply, leaving school at fifteen with no academic qualifications, have a successful career in the police force and become an overseas police adviser? John describes his motivation to serve and protect, and takes you through his police career, including when he climbed the headstock of a disused colliery to talk down a disturbed teenager, had a convicted killer hold a knife to his throat, and took a loaded shotgun out of the hands of an aggressive teenager. He enumerates his progression through the ranks and describes an occasion when he refused to obey an order from his Chief Constable, which probably cost him a promotion. Post-retirement, he worked for a private security company involved in the escorting of prisoners to courts and prisons and describes having to spend three days in the witness box at an inquest into the death of a prisoner in transit to prison. As an overseas police adviser sitting in a restaurant in Addis Ababa with his wife, a colleague and his wife, John saw a hand grenade come to a standstill just inches away from his legs and he expected to die, but miraculously survived. Flown back to the UK for treatment he had his moments of fame, appearing on TV news and on the Big Breakfast show on Channel 4. Attending a presentation function at the Café Royal, he sat next to Lois Maxwell, the original Miss Moneypenny and the lady on whom her character was based.

An American Embarrassed chronicles writer and illustrator Ashley Holt's inspiring journey from neurotic American malcontent to neurotic American malcontent with Deutschland residency status. As culled from his notorious Substack column, "The Symptoms," these thirteen essays chart his bewilderment over a foreign language, mysterious cultural norms, and troubling underwear. Thirst asks nothing more.®

"One of America's few female astronauts reveals the wisdom that helped her overcome the barriers of others' expectations-and learn to work on a team both in close quarters and remotely In 2010, the day after her fiftieth birthday-and despite having faced feedback for years that she was not astronaut material-Cady Coleman boarded a rocket and blasted off into space for her third NASA mission, the only woman on her six-person crew. She may have been an "unexpected" astronaut, but her determination and her experiences give her a unique perspective on life here on Earth. In Sharing Space, Cady shares counterintuitive insights integral to her success, such as how to leverage insecurities to beat expectations, how to know when to adapt and when to press for change, and how to be the glue that holds a disparate team together. Illustrated with stories from her life and training, from meteorite hunting in Antarctica to the two weeks she spent living in an underwater habitat to the magic of spending six months living and working in zero gravity, this book will inspire anyone eager to escape a box in which they have been (unfairly) placed or develop the confidence to succeed, even when they're not an obvious "fit.""--

"Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and (most shockingly) a mortgage, Emily Farris could never get her sh*t together. To her, being bad at staying organized was just one of her many character flaws--that is, until she was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 35. Like many women and girls with undiagnosed ADHD, Emily spent her life internalizing criticisms about her lack of follow-through and carrying around a lot of shame as she tried to fit into a world designed for neurotypical brains. "I'll Just Be Five More Minutes" is a collection of honest, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking personal essays about Emily's experiences as a woman with ADHD. Far more than simply classic ADHD stories about being too energetic at school or being called too scatterbrained, "I'll Just be Five More Minutes" is a portrait of modern American life in a neurodivergent brain. It's about complicated relationships with family and friends (including celebrity stalker). Feminism and a woman's right to control her own body. Sleeping too little and drinking too much. Starting a side hustle--and then starting another one (and another and another). Finding the love of your life and then fighting to keep him. And, of course, self-acceptance. These are the deeply relatable, possibly secondhand embarrassment-inducing, wide-ranging stories about not quite fitting into the world without understanding why--a feeling we can all relate to whether we're neurodivergent or not. An essay collection both entertaining and enlightening, "I'll Just Be Five More Minutes" is for people who have ADHD, for the people who know and love them, and for anyone looking for a good laugh as well as a good cry. But it's also more than that--it's a book on how to exist as a woman, a mom, and a person in this fast-paced, overwhelming world we (somewhat begrudgingly) call home"--

Dances with Dogs describes a spiritual journey toward extravagant joy. Author Bonnie Rose once struggled with insecurity and shame. When she learned to view the human-divine condition with comedic compassion, everything changed. This book offers a new view, plus specific tools for the head, heart, and hands-all designed to help us find the mystical love that embraces life's weirdness, woes, and wonders. Bonnie's ability to effortlessly tell a story while dropping deep wisdom onto the page is nothing short of genius. She suggests unconventional spiritual practices-befriending imperfections, practicing small-yet-mighty acts of kindness, and living in unconditional joy. Central to this book is Bonnie's desire to help you recognize heaven on earth; to celebrate the glory of your true divine nature; and most of all to fall in love with your whole life-for your whole life loves you more than you can imagine.

"Trapped" is a book series that narrates my life story. We all have a unique story to tell, but I am courageous enough to share mine regardless of any judgment I may receive. Like many of us, I have experienced some form of trauma in my past. Fortunately, I was able to recognize and confront the traumas in my life and understand their root causes. Through my book series, I aim to break down my story and explore each generational curse that has affected my family.My decision to share my story comes from the belief that it can help others who are struggling with fear, reality, or judgment. Sharing our stories is a critical part of the healing process. Moreover, I have found that many people do not know how to break free from generational curses. By learning from my experiences, readers can overcome tough obstacles in their own lives and make positive changes.

God Spoke to Me. He said, "Get up and Leave" is an inspirational story which captures the reality of what women and children endure behind the doors of their homes.Author Erika Romo talks about the hardships she survived during her childhood after being sexually assaulted by family members, and how these events affected her negatively in the different stages of her life, up to the point where she became a magnet for men willing to be "her controller, savior or executioner." Looking to save herself and her children from a life filled with fear and pain, Erika makes decisions and sacrifices that changes the lives of many. God Spoke to Me. He said, "Get up and Leave" expresses the power of faith and how Erika identifies the opportunities given to her as messages from God, which she must embrace as positive goals to accomplish.God Spoke to Me. He said, "Get up and Leave" will show you the power, capabilities, and strengths that all women have once they are ready to re-write their destiny.

There were many encouragements to Ken during his five-year diary called Ken's Greatest Challenge, many heartfelt and inspirational messages from family, friends, coworkers, students, those who knew Ken, and those who knew about Ken.This guestbook is a collection of these messages that were all read by Ken. He appreciated these so much. I believe that these are what kept him so very positive and fighting for as long as he did.I thank you all from the depths of my heart as to what it did to encourage this very amazing man.