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Happiness 101: A how-to guide in positive psychology for people who are depressed, languishing, or flourishing, The Participant's Manual is your guide to learning more about what current research has to say about happiness. Happiness is a state of mind we all want, yet few of us know how to reach it. In this group manual, you will learn how much of your happiness is actually under your control, why it is difficult to be happy with what you have, and why participating in your favorite activity less, is actually better for you. Moreover, this program will help you practice multiple interventions in order to maintain a long-term approach to happiness. So, get ready for some big changes!Modules include: 1. Myths and Beliefs about Happiness2. What are the benefits of being happy?3. Adaptation, genetics, and circumstances4. Intervention principles: Effort, fit, variety.5. Positive emotions6. Theory of Authentic Happiness (Seligman, 2002)7. Flow8. Positive interventions

This is a book of spiritual poetry. It comes from the heart. It is inspired by the Holy Spirit. This is how it all began:I was preparing for my first religious pilgrimage. It was in 2004. It was a trip to Italy. The spiritual guide on the trip was Father Dan Kampschneider. Before we embarked on our trip he told all of us that we would all find something unique to each one of us on the pilgrimage. I took this to heart little knowing what an impact it would have on my life. We arrived in Paris, France to catch a plane to Venice, Italy. . As we landed in Paris, Air France played a song on the loud speaker. It was "He Leadeth Me". At the time I thought it sounded as though the angels were serenading us. I took out my journal and started writing. As we landed in Venice I showed it to Father Kampschneider and he suggested I read it after communion as a reflection on the beginning of our pilgrimage. I did. The rest is history.Since than I have read reflections or poems in St. Peter's Basilica, St. Mary Major, St. John Latern, The church in Ars and several Churches in Ireland. I have written many prayers. The Holy Spirit is definitely inspiring me and working through me. I hope you are inspired a little from these gifts of God. For through my writing they are also gifts for you.

Poems and artworks in this book constitute a dualreflection of the author 's perspective on life and on themesthat are common within the realm of human existence.It is also a book of images: some suggested by words(and potentially qualified and colored by the readers' minds,according to their individual emotions and experiences) ,andother images more directly given, and which are personal visualinterpretations of objects, people, and scenes, presented inthe form of acrylic paintings.

The central topic is the wonderment of nature and the feeling of connection with the outdoors. My experiences with Nature are on-going learning and spiritual ones. My goal is to translate onto film, with my camera, the emotions and visual impact of what I see. My stock file (7000 + 35 mm slides) cover a broad scope of natural history (birds, insects, mammals, wildflowers, and reptiles) in portraits, in families, and in habitat. The stock travel images are from a number of states, including Alaska, as well as Africa, Canada, China, Europe, the Galapagos Islands, and South America. Picking the 50 images for this book from stock was the hard part. There is still the "maybe that image would have been better than this one" thoughts. The images are an eclectic representation of the four areas of photography in which the book is divided. These are; THE LOOK-INTO-THE-EYES APPROACH: Making eye contact "connection" with my subject is my favorite type of wildlife photography. Like with people, it's that sense of looking into the "Windows of the Soul". GOD'S WORLD: I don't know why certain scenes turns me on. Sometimes it is just a feeling I get. I don't always understand the why. Sometimes I think it is just God telling me to "take the picture", hence the title. There is a subdivision of this area titled PATHWAYS. MACRO WORLD: Macro photography, a way to take close-up telephoto views of little things. It helps to see the miniature details and beauty of the plant and insect worlds. PEOPLE: I have always been a people-watcher and when I run out of Nature subjects, particularly when traveling, I do photograph them. I try to capture elements of lifestyle, culture, and customs. If my translation to film of these visions of Mother Nature are reasonably successful, the photographs should trigger some personal thoughts, feelings, and memories in you, the viewer.

We Meet Again: Book Two of the TrilogyThe saga of love found and love lost began with High-Speed Chase and continues in We Meet Again.Take a journey through the warm memories of another time. Reminiscing never felt so good.

Before Ralph could warn everyone, 'Hoenir the Powerful' grabbed a nearby tree ripped it out of the ground, then let go a loud growl. Grabbed Ralph by his waist and threw him 20 feet before he landed on some bushes out cold. Ralph came to a short time later in the Institute's gym, hanging by his hands alongside his wife, Patsy, Stanly, and Alice. 'Hoenir the Powerful' approached Ralph with two men, got in Ralph's face and said, "I know who you are and all about your special powers. That's why I had my men string you and your cohorts up with unbreakable cables."