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"Successfully Coping with Fibromyalgia" tells a rare success story - something few people seem to have experienced: success in avoiding the chronic pain and associated symptoms of what is sometimes called "fibromyalgia". I have found ways to consistently avoid the pain that has afflicted me for the past fifty years. It's based on the avoidance of certain common substances in our environment, something I've never seen reported in FM research or treatment. As a major update to my original 2011 book "Coping with Fibromyalgia", this volume reflects major new findings and the progress I've made in controlling FM pain over the intervening twelve years, including: A new, clearer description of the triggers behind my pain - common substances in food and the environment that directly result in chronic pain.A better understanding of the progression of events leading up to pain.How to use TENS - Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation -a major new tool for warding off the progression of pain into a full-blown "FM Event".Associated factors that affect the degree of pain I experience.As fibromyalgia sufferers - how did we get here - why is this all happening?

Bruce Nelson grew up in a small black community where he pitched watermelons, picked cotton, swam in the neighborhood canals, and attended the segregated Booker T. Washington School, in Mesa, AZ. The neighborhood was known as North Town. In 1994 Bruce stumbled into Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center located in Venice Beach, California. The eclectic atmosphere nudged him into attending their weekly writing workshops and performances. He was always eager to share his poetry and short stories with classes. So, when Nelson secured the position as Artistic Director for Saban Free Clinic's Project ABLE (An educational theater troupe) he was primed to write one-act plays. During his six years as Artistic Director, he received three LA Cultural Affairs grants to write a series of one-act plays that were performed in Los Angeles County for adolescents in alternative schools, youth hostels, prisons, homeless shelters, middle schools, high schools, and youth conferences. His one-act play Anansi and the Sky God was accepted into the Play Lab at the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska. Porch Short Stories is Bruce Nelson's first book

From the early time of slavery to today, the African American community has embraced the church as a symbol and site for inspiration, guidance and hope. The celebration of adorning oneself has deep roots dating back to the first African slaves in America.              Hallelujah Hats  is a celebration of the churches of Washington Park, the once thriving segregated African American community in Mesa, Arizona, through the jewelry, hats, and fashion worn by female churchgoers. The exhibition focuses around five churches: North Center Street Baptist, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal, Voice of Pentecost, Holy Temple Church of Christ, and Mt. Baptist Calvary Church.            The book includes photos of vintage hats, purses, gloves, costume jewelry  shoes , dresses, and fur-lined, collared wool coats typically worn by the church members. It also includes historic photographs of ceremonial baptisms in the local canal.