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This book is about my life. I crossed county sixteen times on foot on most of it and lived on the road for fifteen years, eating wild edible plants and always leaving home with no money. This book is more than just a book. This book can save lives. Say you have no family and no friends and you're homeless. The knowledge in this book can save your life. Of course you will have to be extremely careful if anyone ever tries to do this. I urge anyone who reads my book to use this knowledge only if they are in trouble. The reason for this book is to save people and open people's eyes to the drifter world, a world most people only briefly hear about. I'm letting the world know what these homeless world travelers go through in great detail. It took me fifteen years to write this book because I kept getting rained on and my book kept getting ruined. I'm proud to finally give the world The Diary of a Drifter.
This is the story of a man and a woman who have made their respective plans to enter into their golden years after going through all of life's challenges, raising their families, wanting only to enjoy their retirement years with each other; filling those remaining years of their lives with travel, adventure, and grandchildren, along with making memories, only to discover their plans lost upon losing both "e;loves of their lives."e; A surprise event in their lives opens the door to their wildest dreams, thus providing the book's title, The Day Isn't Over. However, finding each other living happily ever after proves to be harder the second time around and has become more difficult than the first, but they remain steadfast in their live for each other regardless of the newfound obstacles in their way, making the love they had discovered for each other's golden years shine brighter.
Controversy and Ultimatum is a thriller with a political background. It takes place in an imaginary country, an island shaped like a crab, located somewhere in the Atlantic or the Pacific, not far from the American coast. There is a crime in high society. Two detectives are dedicated to solving the enigma. They are Gavin William and Chelo Gomez. They are two opposite and yet complementary characters. Gavin William is rational, objective, patient. Chelo Gomez is mysterious, subjective, and even more patient.
My Pain Became My Strength was written as the start of the healing process for me. While attending counseling sessions, I was unaware of how my childhood was still affecting me as an adult, how it affected my decisions, communication, and last but not least, how I interacted with others. I had never expressed myself, nor did I allow myself to deal with all the emotions or feelings from past experiences. Until I started writing, I wasn't even aware of how much I had gone through. Through this process, I was able to express, acknowledge the problems, and most importantly, allow myself to feel and deal with every emotion in order to start my healing process.When I took these steps, I was finally able to see the real me. I was also able to finally love myself, which I was not able to do for years. This is what inspired me to tell and share my story. There are many elements to my story. I survived being molested by a family member. I was also abused sexually, physically, and verbally. I also had to deal with mental illness that separated me from my mom at a very early age. All these obstacles caused me a lot of pain. But in the end, every obstacle made me stronger and became my strength because of my faith in God.During my journey, God had also placed very important people in my path. They were very instrumental in my view on life and of people. Each person that God had placed in my life provided me with something different, but it was very vital to my well-being. I felt very blessed to have them in my life and very grateful for the role they each played. While writing my story, I was able to see my life come full circle. My happiness comes from helping others. Despite my past, if sharing my story encourages others to find their purpose in life, as well as find salvation in Jesus Christ, it brings my heart so much joy. I would like for that little girl, little boy, young lady, young man, woman, or man to know that despite how grim or dark things may be, there is light and happiness on the other side, to never give up on your aspirations, and most importantly, never to give up on yourself. I was able to find peace, love, and happiness as an adult that I did not have as a child by growing spiritually. I found my purpose in life, so I want to inspire others that they, too, have a purpose in this life!
Elton Peabody is a thirty-five-year-old high school history teacher in a small Southern town who has a terrifying experience one night with a mysterious bright light deep in the forest behind his house. Did he encounter a UFO? A secret government project? A high-tech prank? Angels? A mental breakdown? Or something else? This is his journey to understand what happened and move on with his life in the face of increased public scrutiny. His story encompasses family dynamics (especially between Elton and his younger brother, the local sheriff), the drama of a sheriff's election, high school life as seen from a young teacher's perspective, friendship, lots of humor, a search for religious meaning, summoning the courage to face one's fears, and taking risks for romance.
I grew up in a small town in Ohio, called Brunswick. No we didn't have computers growing up, but what we did have were books and imagination. We made lifelong friends as we played ball, built forts, camped and fished . We were the neighborhood kids.Later as I got older , I jumped out of planes, went white water rafting down a few rivers and yes even in a glider plane. I made a career in commercial construction and finally retired from it. Now I just write a little and kayak down a river or two. Always with my faithful friend, Jazz the wonder dog at my side.This book is a collection of short stories. Just some of my thoughts I put to paper and after a while became a story. A collection of stories that are true that happened to me as well as stories I thought of but all are from the heart as a writer. I can only hope that I made you smile, just a little. Belly laugh out loud, maybe made you think, but most of all, touch your heart. If you get anything out of my writing it is this. That you are never alone no matter how dark the night there will always be light. If you just ask. Cause behind every dark cloud is the sun just achin' to come out. Just saying...
The worst day in America's history will take place in the future.The prison system of tomorrow is a stark contrast of any other inmate lockup style seen in the past. The entire system needed a complete overhaul due to the overwhelming population of incarcerated people.Several NFL stadium-sized prison buildings were erected in a remote location, a location that was kept a secret from the general public. This new prison had only one goal in mind. Once the prisoners arrived, they were placed in a coma for the length of their prison sentence. This prison had acquired a nickname the "e;Coma Compound."e; It was designed as a minimum-security prison because of its lack of conscious criminals.In the year 2046, the fine citizens of America were celebrating Independence Day in traditional fashion. Everything was going great. In the blink of an eye, that all changed. A mysterious fire broke out near the compound that night, knocking out its power supply and ultimately disabling the medical equipment keeping the prisoners comatose.Thirteen million prisoners woke up all at once. Nobody was prepared for what came next...
As an investigative reporter, Cassie Marshall is accustomed to occasionally encountering dangerous situations. However, this time, she may have bitten off more than she bargained for. When she started investigating Enrique Espinoza, she thought it was just a routine investigation of a drug cartel-until someone tries to kill her. Hawk Logan is a DEA agent with a distrust for reporters. But when his friend calls him to help with a case involving a reporter, he goes. He soon discovers that Cassandra Marshall isn't like other reporters he has encountered. When a second attempt is made on her life, Hawk steps in to try to protect her until the assailant is apprehended. But when the assailant discovers where they are hiding, will help arrive in time to help them?
A true-life story that may sound a bit familiar to the baby boomer generation. Spanning the years from the '50s to the modern times of today, from childhood antics to the angst and perils of teenage-hood, and then the highs and lows of marriage, giving birth, divorce.Beyond those years, follow an assortment of the amusing and amazing, the joyful and the miraculous, and the disappointment and sorrow of a not too normal life.It all began in a tiny northern town in America, transcending six decades and several foreign countries. A chance to start over, a second marriage (one worth waiting for)-new man, new country, new customs-amongst castles and moors and mysticism, along with quirkiness, oddities, and whimsy.A lifelong search for identity and answers, needle-in-a-haystack style. A quest to find a recognizable face, a name, a place, feeling nonexistent at times, like a ghost. "e;I'm here, but I'm not really here."e;A discovery of human nature, to belong to someone, days and moments that will never be forgotten, and the chance to live another day as a result of finding the truth. Another whole family, like figures in a wax museum suddenly and finally come to life.A song with a beautiful melody and words beckoning from far across the ocean, simultaneously haunting and pleasing, the personal anthem that sometimes shadowed and other times led to the final destination of knowing.I shouldn't have even made it. Everyone else is dead. Not me. I was meant to live.And this is my story.
An old-time war erupts again in the heart of Texas after a popular television personality is abducted by men of the underworld. The state authority believes that it is just an ordinary act of violence, but investigations are underway. Drago, who is on a long-term mission to annihilate vampires from the face of the earth, does not relent on his reckless display of terror; but he is resisted by Lucas who had dangerous encounters with the villain in the past. During one of those encounters, Drago escaped by a whisker but lost his strongest man and friend in the process. That was many decades ago, but unforgiving and undeterred Drago is back with a strong army to effect revenge by launching an attack on an unprepared Lucas through a human shield of high value.Bombs and ammunition proliferation enjoy underground freedom. The fair and peaceful vampires cannot involve the police because of the stereotype of vampires as demons by the human society. It is a free-for-all undercover war for both parties with few civilian casualties. Magic, psychokinesis, time travel, and teleporting are openly displayed by the warring factions in this intriguing story. The struggle for supremacy continues with both sides losing important men, but at the end, the more focused player becomes victorious and achieves his ambition of revealing a sacred truth to the whole world.
This book is full of short stories that have happened in the author's life. The stories are mostly funny, but some are serious. There are also some poems, or should I say roasts, about the author's family members and friends. There is a section that is fictional in nature, about the people in the author's fantasy football league.
No one wants to stay in a broken marriage or relationship. Staying is hard; leaving is even harder. Pardoning yourself to leave will be the most courageous act you'll ever perform. Voices of gossip and questions like "e;Can I make it on my own being a single mom/dad or just being single?"e; are just a few thoughts that you will find floating in your head. You will be okay. You will be better than okay because you will have your dignity back, and your soul will be filled with peace that you yearned so long for.Divorce is an uncomfortable conversation. More so for the person who is actually going through the divorce and not those who stand by with judgment. We cannot lie around being low-hanging fruit for everyone. As with any fruit, some are examined to see if it should be chosen. While that part of the process is necessary, it sometimes can cause bruising.Once you are the chosen fruit, if not used in your due season for the intended purpose, you will spoil and become rotten, and may I say it, bitter--no use to anyone. I say, be careful whom you allow to handle you. Be mindful of your shelf life, your worth, and be courageous to set yourself free for your God-given purpose. Be courageous, my beloved. Pardon the warden(s). Pardon anyone and everyone who besets bitterness in your soul. And most importantly, pardon your beautiful self.
Your success is not by what you have and own or what you are involved with in your social life. Your success is by what you are doing here with the spiritual life through the physical presence. It's not about where you're at with what you have. It's about where you're at with who you are, then you will have everything that you need. Do not sell your life for some simple-minded success. Reality is an illusion that must be recognized and overcome in order to make it out. Humans must reach a deeper point on focusing past the beliefs of what they think and know as being true. We live in a reality where people believe that truth is found from the media of an Internet revolution, and that is far from accurate. Humans accept the world from the reality in which they are presented. The only way to see the truth in the right form is from within. The soul is what makes a person human, and the soul holds true that the physical mind can barely comprehend. You have to be spiritually developed outside of society for your mind to be evolved in processing and handling the path of light through your soul. It is through the soul that you discover and become conscious of understanding the deepest truths. People who strictly live in the world will never come to know their souls. The soul is the only way to true wisdom and eternal life. Do you want to become less of who you are, or do you want to become more than what you were led to believe that you are? Humans must always live in the light of who they are outside of this world. Otherwise, they're just living a baseless existence following under the guidance of wickedness to an impending eternal death.
Although the theme of Sixty Years behind the Mast is sailing, blue-water cruising in particular, it is much more than just about sailing. First, it is hoped the book will be added to the libraries of many blue-water sailors. For example, on the author's forty-foot yacht, AEOLUS, its library included three or four dozen sailing books including Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World (1894) and Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840). Dana's book is an excellent description of the eighty-four-foot Boston brig, PILGRIM, trading with the ranchers in "e;Alta California"e; in the 1830s. A good library consisting of many other well-known sailing/adventure stories is essential on a cruising yacht.Second, Sixty Years behind the Mast also should be included in the libraries of armchair adventurers who dream of making voyages to the distant islands in the South Pacific. The romantic South Pacific is famous for its out-of-the-box authors, artists, beachcombers, lone sailors, and scallywags, such as Robert Louis Stevenson (In the South Seas); James Michener (Tales of the South Pacific); impressionist painter, Paul Gauguin, who lived out his tragic life on Hiva Oa, an island of the Marquesas Archipelago; and American musician, Eddie Lund (and his Tahitians), sometimes referred to as "e;the Irving Berlin of island music."e; The Romance of the South Pacific was also well illustrated by famed film director John Ford's movie, The Hurricane (1937), staring Dorothy Lamour and Jon Hall.Third, Sixty Years behind the Mast is a good reference manual for parents who have adolescent children. Several weeks, even just one week of blue-water sailing on a small boat, is an amazing way to help children successfully navigate the rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. Cruising motivates a person to become self-reliant, builds self-confidence, enhances compassion, helps develop the skills required for effective teamwork and leadership, and makes one more sensitive to nature and sympathetic to the environment.
This story chronicles the events that could happen to a hardworking close-knit, God-fearing, altruistic American family living the American Dream that became powerless when their family is infiltrated by someone who is raised the opposite of them, that is, someone with no religion, no filial piety, no etiquette, and no compassion. The infiltrator not only cons them about many things but seduces their wayward daughter. This person commandeers their cars to be used for selling drugs under the pretext of needing a car to look good when going to band practice, their house, their garage, and their garden shed to store his drugs, guns, and ammunition that he was selling, just to name a few.Their wayward daughter is forced to cosign for an apartment for this parasite and ends up using her mother's grocery money to buy food for the parasite who is a drug addict, drug dealer, and child pornographer. Every month, the daughter steals the elderly mother's credit card to buy money orders to pay the child support of six illegitimate children of the parasite who fathered them with six different women. The parasite is promiscuous and has sex indiscriminately with women and prostitutes for daytime jaunts while the wayward daughter is at work. Pretty soon, the elderly mother's sister, brother, and cousins are forbidden by the wayward daughter at the insistence of the parasite to come to Christmas dinners like they had been doing for the last fifty years because the drug addict wanted the elderly lady to cook Christmas dinner for his illegitimate daughters, his relatives, his uplines, and his downlines.The drug addict started storing his safe in their house. It contained his drugs, money, guns in his inventory in addition to the deeds of properties up and down the eastern seaboard that his customers were forced to sign over to him when they could not pay for their drugs that he supplied them. Eventually, he was selling drugs at the Silaghi family dining table right in front of the elderly couple who were totally helpless.Mila became more and more subservient to the drug-addict couple. She was slowly deluding herself that her pseudo son-in-law was not a drug addict, drug dealer, and child pornographer even though she had suspicions that he was a hit man for the mob. The wayward daughter and the drug addict kept deluding her that the parasite was cleaning up. Just before Nero's death, she had been forced by the drug-addict couple to buy them a house as he had to move out of Sodom and Gomorrah. Mila was to put down the down payment while the wayward daughter was to pay the mortgage and the drug addict was to pay for all the utilities. As soon as they closed on the house, the drug addict never came through with his promise and Mila was paying for the utilities and eventually the mortgage plus all the money needed for buying supplies to do the renovation.When Mila died, the wayward daughter turned the Silaghi house into a rooming house for drug addicts, drug dealers, and child pornographers. Everything was very rosy for the drug-addict couple until one day...
Follow a prairie dog named Peter.Adventures to entice every reader. This time, he finds a way to help a friend. Who knows what could happen by journey's end. Maybe he can help you find your way. So begins our stories and the wonders of each day.
Mrs. Vivian Palmer is a wealthy, well-known, and respected businesswoman in the advertising industry. She thinks that she has the perfect family. Mrs. Palmer is happily married with two successful adult children. However, her children experience difficulties revealing their true identities. Her daughter, Kenyette, has decided to keep part of her life secret from her family. She has been living a double life. Kenyette has managed to hide her secret from her husband, Robert, until one day after a tragic and unexpected event, the secret is exposed without warning, leading the couple to a difficult compromise for the sake of their children as well as for their entire family. The Palmer's son Clive, on the other hand, feels as though he has something to prove to his family. He is stubborn and will listen to no one, no matter the consequence, until one day he nearly loses his life during his desperate determination to prove himself. Mrs. Palmer doesn't know her children very well, contrary to what she thinks. Unbeknownst to her, she is oblivious to her own controlling tactics. She has unconsciously controlled her children's life, which has taught them to live a life of deceit.
Hop on your bike and ride with Craig and Brian as they create and experience lessons and adventures. Sit on the wall with the whole gang and feel for yourself the warmth built from friendships and mutual experiences.Emeryville, a small town, nestled between two big cities and the San Francisco Bay, provides the perfect backdrop for fun and adventure.The author gives you a manual for growing up the right way with these memoirs from a different time, in a different place, in a unique way from an adult's point of view.From the admiration of older siblings to the dedication of best friends. Talents discovered and utilized and put to good use in reminiscences of a wonderful reflection of the author's childhood.Craig Webster combines memories, mirth, and shared ventures in this totally true, nonfiction, nothing-made-up book of memories from a childhood done the right way.Enjoy your bike ride as you experience Emeryville Stories.
Your divorce does not have to be a bad divorce. It doesn't have to break you, spiritually or otherwise. It doesn't have to be the end of everything you knew. Your marriage can just end if you want it to just end. Even if it's not your choice, it is your option.What People Are Saying about A Good Divorce Begins Here:As a woman, my first response is, "e;Thank heaven for this book!"e; My second is to send it to all my friends who need it more than they know. (Catherine W.)Tom Sturges personally guided me through the most challenging time in my life while emphasizing the fundamental concepts in this book. A must-read for anyone to help navigate a life-changing event like divorce successfully. (Dr. Leo R., USMC - after four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan)I wish this book had been around when I was going through my divorce! Scott T.A great read. Like having a conversation with a knowledgeable and good friend. Succinct and to the point with specific and clear advice about practical ways to achieve a successful divorce and lead a happy life afterwards. A special bonus of the book is Tom's advice on how to successfully relate to your children after a divorce. (Kay M.) The chief cause of divorce is marriage! (Groucho Marx)
This is a journey that God brought me through and I can't do anything but praise him. We all go through trials and tribulations and our testimony is what makes us and not breaks us. Be of good courage, even when your back is up against the wall, don't look left or look right but look up to the higher power and that is our Father which is in heaven. Thanks to my son and daughter, my husband. My mom & dad and sisters and brother laws that were there in the midst of my trials. I LOVE YOU ALL!
Vinnie Mac grew up in the streets as a nickel-and-dime hustler. He left his hometown of Long Beach and went to Job Corps in Utah. That trip would change his life forever. Vinnie, having his first baby at seventeen years old, went to Job Corps to finish his last year of high school and learn a trade. He became a cook; in the meantime, his first love and his baby momma couldn't stand him being gone, and she found herself another man. Vinnie decided to become a pimp. Through trial and error, he built his stable with some of the baddest bitches and became one of the biggest pimps on the West Coast. This novel takes a look into the secret world of a West Coast player and his team of prostitutes. American Pimps: The Vinnie Mac Story is an explosive urban tale from the streets of Long Beach, California, the home of gamblers, hustlers, players, pimps, and gangbangers. The streets will eat you alive if you don't watch your back! It's about sex, drugs, money, cars, clothes, and jewelry. Vinnie's living the good life on top of the world until it turned into jealousy, deceit, envy, and then murder, then payback.
This book is about a man who suffered through a bad marriage where his wife was cheating. She included the children in the lies to help cover up her behavior. All along, she wrote little notes to her husband to convince him she loved him, which were lies. Years after leaving her he found love and has learned to trust again.
Logan Scott, former United States Air Force special operations military pilot turned inventor, patents and manufactures a proprietary electronic device that allows terrorists, cartels, deceitful corporations, and the federal government a strong leg up on their competitors. His inventive intellect sets the financial world on fire when articles appear in leading magazines and newspapers heralding this priceless brainchild. Needing capital to expand lets a supposed angel investor into the henhouse whose intent is to hijack, not invest. Follow Logan and his partner, Raelyn, through a hostile coup, brutal assaults, and destruction of their personal lives at the hands of the greedy, criminal minded. Revenge becomes their modus operandi, not love, not flowers!
As a young boy, the author met a retired schooner captain by chance. They both admired an abandoned one-hundred-foot schooner hull on a sandbar near the captain's home in Tampa Bay. The captain assured the boy that the hull could be salvaged and repaired to sail again, but it never was. Years later the author remembered the vision that the captain had about rebuilding the hull. The author was working for the Panama Canal Company, where an unused ferro-cement schooner belonging to Explorer Ship 8 of the Boy Scouts of America was sitting idle at a dock. Pushed by his teenage son to "get the Chief fixed up" so the scouts could sail her, the author took on the project. Finding a way to raise money for repairs was the first challenge. After that, it was a day-by-day struggle to bring the schooner back to a seaworthy condition. This book documents the hard work, pressure, and growth that both the teenagers and the participating adults went through as they brought an impossible dream into reality. The Chief participated in the tall ship parade of the US Bicentennial, July 4, 1976, in New York harbor and then sailed back to Panama.
______________________________________________________________Kentucky Gazette NUMB. XXIX Quidquid agunt homines-nostri farrago libelli. Juv. Sat. 8. v. 8 VOL. VI ______________________________________________________________S A T U R D A Y, April 6, 1793 ______________________________________________________________ LEXINGTON; Printed by John Bradford at his office on Main Street: where subscriptions, (at Fifteen Shillings per Annum) Advertisements are thankfully received, and Printing in its different branches done with care and expedition:__________________________________________________________________ On Monday evening last, Morgan's Station on Slate Creek, was taken and burnt by a party of thirty-five Indians; Two of the inhabitants were killed and nineteen taken prisoner; they were pursued, and within about thirty miles the whole of the prisoners were found tomahawked and scalped, one of which (a woman) was found alive and in her senses, after being tomahawked and two scalps taken off.-we have the above information from the husband of the unfortunate woman. The above is the actual article printed after the attack. Only Robert Craig's, a fraught husband and grieving father, description of events came from desperation. Not all the prisoners were killed during the Indian's escape from Morgan's Station, and their pursuit did not end within about thirty miles of the attack. Negotiations won back several of the enslaved over the following years. But then it is also true some were never heard from or seen again. Open up the book, step back in time, become a frontiersman or woman, and see Eastern Kentucky as you have never seen it before in a true American story about the struggle for Western expansion on the Kentucky frontier, Morgan's Station.Follow Morgan's Station Facebook group for book signing information or speaking engagements.
Ella Money always knew there was something out there much bigger and better than her, so she became a dreamer. She didn't know that someday her dream would become her reality. The twists and turns while she was growing up in the South weren't always easy. The ups and downs led her down wrong pasts, making her commit all kinds of mistakes, leading to years of regrets. She lost and found herself at the same time, not understanding that life is a journey. What you learn along the way is up to you to use for good or bad, positive or negative. It's up to you to decide. Her past placed her in the South, her present placed her in many different cities, and her future placed her in Minneapolis, Minnesota-and there she found herself. The girl in the window was always me, Ella Money. I just had to realize that.
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