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DATING DIARIES is a collection of short stories born from the hilarious dating adventures that Nicole Williams and her friends experienced. These stories are meant to give readers a great laugh, and to let them know that they are not alone in the funny, and sometimes CRAZY Dating World. Please sit back, relax, and enjoy these DATING DIARIES!

In Turning Base, Betsy Lynch examines transience, love and grief, parenting, learning to let go and not learning to let go, teaching and learning, recovery, fear and aging, awareness of God, doubt, and powerlessness. Above all, she seeks connectedness; we are not the first to live tragedy, comedy, great divisions, madness, mortality. Humor and humility help.The theme, Wind Perceptions, presented itself as the single most compelling common denominator and metaphor of her adult life:“I seek awareness of weather conditions, spiritual, emotional, political, and physical, she says. I seek guidance, whether to go with the wind or against it, seek lift, or descent; I cross it, relish it, use it, shelter from it, or simply accept it, palms open upward: no matter what path I choose, I can’t change the wind.”Turning Base, now, descending before final approach, landing, the earth reaches up gently, and perhaps it is benevolent. Or perhaps, it simply is.“Listen to my story, come close. And listen to your own story in response. Maybe my story will become part of your story.” 

Effective risk management involves many factors. Identifying, evaluating, mitigating risks, and then communicating this information to appropriate parties, are each well-known and highly recommended activities in the process. Risk management has always entailed a significant analytical component in many elements of the process, as it should. What I believe has not been sufficiently appreciated is that the quality of the decisions people make is the most powerful determinant of success or failure of a risk management process. Further, there is a growing body of research that has shown that decision making is flawed, and often times biased in many ways, leading to ineffective and many times damaging decisions for organizations of all kinds. "Better Behavior + Better Decisions = Less Risk" examines the critical, and heretofore largely unexplored, role of understanding the human behaviors and decision-making processes involved in the art and science of risk management, and provides many illuminating examples of how organizations can make more effective decisions about addressing the risks they face. Each chapter concludes with a "Self Appraisal" section, where the reader can assess how his or her organization makes risk management decisions of all types, and how their organizations can make more effective decisions that increase the likelihood of their success.

 Dr. Paulette E. Terrelonge has a passion for nursing. She followed her childhood dream to become a nurse and God made it possible. She believes that education is the key to success and set out on an educational path. She first acquired a Diploma in Nursing, followed by a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Science, then a Masters Degree in Nursing Science and finally a Doctorate Degree in Nursing Practice.Dr. Terrelonge worked as a midwife in Jamaica WI and as a Nurse in Labor and Delivery in the US for many years and derived satisfaction in seeing new lives coming into the world. She feels honored to be employed by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where she works as a Public Health Nurse in the Office of School Health. She currently works as a School Nurse/Public Health Nurse at a Public School in East New York, Brooklyn, NY. 

Lucy isn't alone! Statistics estimate that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday. Surprisingly, 95% of the victims know their predators. I hope that you will use this story to teach your children to TELL SOMEONE if this happens to them! There are prompts provided for parents to engage their children in a conversation, to help avoid this from happening to them. Parents are encouraged to teach their children about their private body parts, and that they are to be covered (like when we wear a swimsuit to swim). Private parts are just that, private! Talk about what that means.Also, included at the back of the book are signs of sexual abuse, who to contact if this happens to your children, and websites to learn more about children and sexual abuse. This book may be used by School Counselors, Child Psychologists and hopefully, most of all, by PARENTS.

Constitution for a Free People presents all the tools needed to create a charter for freedom for any government: city, county, state, nation, or colony on the Moon or Mars.It is based on the original Constitution for the United States, with worthy safeguards to secure liberty and curb an overreaching government. It assumes that men and women are born free and that most, when they arrive at the years of majority, are capable and able to solve common problems.It hails the U.S. Constitution as a charter of liberty and shows how the ideas behind its creation can be the basis for any government. Many statements from the Founders of the United States are given in support.Constitution for a Free People is for all who love liberty. It presents a plan for a government of the people, by the people and for the people... a plan for keeping decision making close to home... a plan for securing for all people their best hope for liberty, prosperity and happiness. Douglas Buck was born in a land of liberty and filled with industrious people, where neighbors helped one another with their problems or needs. Children played and walked or rode their bikes to school with little concern about being abused or taken hostage. Government was unobtrusive. Buck lived with his parents and grandparents. Everyone had chores. The family raised fruits, produced eggs and milk, and plowed walks and driveways. There was no need to register each business and follow a slew of regulations. People were careful and responsible. In his later years, Buck read The Making of America by W. Cleon Skousen, which reviews each clause of the U.S. Constitution, giving reasons for it inclusion. Knowledge of those reasons and Buck's belief that true principles are timeless and applicable everywhere inspired this book.

The Writer: Ozell T. Brandley Sr. is a 1969 graduate of Prairie View A&M University with a B.S. in Physical Education and a minor in History. He received a bachelor of theology from the former Union Baptist Seminary of Houston, Texas in 1981. He retired as a teacher from the Houston Independent School District in 1999 where he served as a history teacher and a coach. He now serves as an Associate Pastor of the St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church in Houston, Texas under the leadership of Dr. Stanley T. Hilliard. He has been involved as an activist in civil rights and other activities which help to free his brother Clarence Lee Brandley off death-row for a crime he did not commit. He testified in Washington DC at a sub-committee of the Judiciary in 1987; sought help from the Martin Luther King Center and the late Coretta Scott King in Atlanta, Georgia in 1987; stood at the grave of the late Dr. Martin Luther King in 1987; appeared on the “700 Club” in Virginia Beach, Virginia; marched in Conroe, Texas; Cleveland, Texas; marched in Hemphill, Texas; marched in Houston, Texas; marched in Dallas, Texas; and in Austin, Texas to demonstrate and protest the injustice in Texas, along with the numerous wrongful convictions!He wrote the elder, President George H.W. Bush; the late Vice President Lloyd Bentsen, and sought the help of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and many political and religious leaders to secure justice for his brother, Clarence Lee Brandley!He was inducted in the “PVILCA-Hall of Fame” at the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio, Texas on July 16, 2016 because he excelled in high school baseball! He was voted All-S.W.A.C. in college as a freshman and was extended an invitation by the Houston Astros. He was also extended an invitation to work in the presidential campaign of the Reverend Pat Robertson. He has written his first book and is looking forward to writing several books a year!The front cover: Ozell Brandley Jr. 

“I Shall Know Who I Am” is a family saga, a compelling love story, an edge of your seat thriller. It is filled with passion; passion for duty, for their beliefs, for country, for their loved ones. The story finds its way from the cornfields of Iowa to the Middle East, from the rise of the Third Reich to the Ponte Vecchio, from the halls of Vad Yashem to the Great Sphinx. There is an ingenious plan to help Israel repel its enemies at a crucial time in its history. The repercussions have global implications. The timeline is quite accurate as Michael Janssen finds himself involved in the world of espionage, death and revenge. Cairo and Tel Aviv teem with intrigue and danger. There are different choices testing the spirit, values and fortitude of the participants. The characters come to life and represent a time when their worlds were in peril and duty called. Norman Finn spent his working life designing fashion footwear. He lead the development and pioneered better footwear in Asia through U.S. Shoe Corporation and his own company, AmAsia International. He wrote “Life in a Shoe”, which is a memoir, stories of the footwear industry that center around the major players, the companies of its days and his adventures around the world. He and his family have lived in Florence, Italy and currently reside in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Japanese for American High School Students: Book 2 continues to provide a precisely-programmed comprehensive instruction built on the foundation students have acquired through Japanese for American High School Students: Book 1. Each lesson focuses on broadening and strengthening students' skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing through a wide variety of means, including dialogues, essays, stories, oral practice, skits, and poems. Book 2 gives special attention to vocabulary development and grammar knowledge through skillfully structured instructional materials and activities that engage students and lead to an energetic and lively classroom.

Japanese for American High School Students: Book 1 provides a comprehensive, programmatic, and student-oriented two-year course of instruction. Each lesson strengthens and reinforces the instructional material with numerous and varied fun-filled activities to engage and energize students. The content of each lesson is also structured to present a virtual teacher's guide, especially useful for new or less experienced teachers. Instruction is presented through a wide variety of means, including dialogues, essays, stories, oral practice, review sections, skits, songs, and games. A wealth of written and oral exercises not only make the teacher's task easier but also constitute a built-in workbook. A dedicated website includes audio files and other valuable materials keyed to the text. The author drew on 20 years of experience in teaching Japanese to American high school students. The text reflects her hard-won understanding of the critical assistance that teachers need the most: step-by-step guidance with daily lessons, tried-and-true methods of inspiring students, and pedagogical approaches that actually work in today's classroom.

Thoughts that was put into words will sometimes defined these rhymes as wildness and mind-blowing drama, a sense of calmness and dilemma is always in motion to keep these flames within the mind of oneself. Yet the feelings of love with just a taste of corruption will take you on a journey that will leave you speechless in ways of great turbulence and creative drama. Love, passion and stimulation of the mind is somehow the pain from within the heart that was once lost, yet has the feeling of friendship with true meaning of words and thoughts from within a mind of wildness. Roan Small Born in the beautiful island of Jamaica in 1978. Roan has always had a thing for words. His amazing creativity for writing and poetry of his own style and flavor is breathtaking, however he is a lover for ancient poetry and middle age novels. This is the first book of his spontaneous yet creative mind and yes, it has a little of everything.

Why do we struggle to love ourselves? What does it mean to be truly good to ourselves? Have we been so disoriented by the messages we regularly receive from those around us and from our society and culture that we don't really know what loving our self looks and feels like? It's impossible to be the person everyone expects us to be. Still we make huge efforts and spend our resources to be someone we cannot be. We can try to convince ourselves that this is the way it is and has to be, but it's not. Tired of all the masks and games? Maybe you need to take time to discover who you truly are and what your very precious life is all about. It begins with a searching and honest look at your self. The person you will find underneath all the distortions is both good and loveable. This is the person you are invited to embrace and to care for. Through these pages, enter the too frequently unexplored territory between self-neglect and self-indulgence. Using the format of retreat conferences, the author blends together: personal stories, scriptural reflections, experientially sourced wisdom and a touch of humor to carefully bring to light and examine the possibilities and parameters of self-love. As You Love Your Self presents a compelling argument for why we need to start with love of self and why we cannot stay there. Authentic self-love is meant to free us to be able to wholeheartedly give the wonderful gift of our selves in love to others. Follow Tim Buckley as he recounts his journey from broken and wounded beginnings toward embracing and celebrating himself with love. This is our story, the human story--the story of hurt, faith, courage and grace--rooted in love and destined for love.

Donald Wortman grew up in a world of which most young people of today have no direct knowledge or experience. In the little town of Morristown, Indiana, during the Great Depression and later, WWII, his family had no TV, internet, electronic games or cell phones. They communicated with friends, family, and neighbors face to face or with the hand-cranked phone on the wall. But Morristown provided him with a strong, hard-working family and almost unlimited opportunities to develop his skills, abilities, self-reliance and imagination. From birth in 1934, through his formative years until high school graduation, Don enjoyed a secure home in a close-knit town where he and his friends had many “Huck Finn”-type adventures.After high school graduation in 1952, Don attended Butler University and then Indiana University where he distinguished himself as a student. These years were sadly interrupted by the death of his father, Lyall, as well as by a stint in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict. Throughout his years in college and in the army, he benefitted from the solid family foundation in which he had been brought up. Failure was not an option. Hard work, perseverance, and good character were the values that had been instilled in him. His independence as well as all the many practical skills he had developed in Morristown would prove to be invaluable in his future.After marriage and receiving his PhD in physics, Don embarked on a career filled with accomplishments, such as his many publications, inventions, patents, awards, and eventually co-founding a laser business. Throughout his career, he always exhibited the self-reliance, creativity, and strong work ethic he developed as a young man in Morristown, Indiana. As they say, “You can take the boy out of Morristown, but you can’t take Morristown out of the boy”. 

All men keep secrets from their children. Some men even keep secrets from their wives. My father did both. By the dawn of 1945, the War was at its zenith. Nazi Germany was like a dying star burning its brightest just before going extinct. Germans were on their own soil and those protecting "the Fatherland" were the true believers - the fanatics - who would, and did, fight to the last man standing. The battles fought were mostly in cities, house to house and sometimes hand to hand. Many of these battles were fought by untested teenage American boys. All the time, Hitler was using his futuristic "wonder weapons" on this European front, while committing mass murder in concentration camps. My father was one of these American boys. At eighteen years old, he joined the Army in 1944, and fresh out of boot camp, he became one of those "replacements." Those men who replaced fallen comrades; and the ones battle hardened veterans didn't want to get to know. But my father's experience was a little different than most, because he learned that he was fighting some of his own blood relatives who were either in the Nazi party, the army, or Hitler Youth. Although untested, he and his comrades were thrown into one of the longest battles an American Army Division fought during the war. For thirty days they fought and marched. Those they fought were hardened SS and Hitler Youth. It was the formula for vicious, personal fighting and for unthinkable atrocities committed by both sides. My father fought with distinction, all the while earning the respect of the veterans he served with. Then, when he thought the fighting was over, his unit was the first in for the liberation of one of Hitler's most famous concentration camps, Dachau.

Extraordinary turns of event from inside the walls of a pretzel shop!Pat Long’s pretzel shop, Pretzel Land, is in the heart of Amish Country and puts her in contact with all sorts of people on a daily basis. Some are the salt of the earth (no pun intended) and others get all tied up in knots (OK, pun intended) being less than nice.From the hilarious (Amish hip-hop dancer, anyone? Or how about the four-year-old who sang along with Queen’s “Fat Bottom Girls”?) to the absurd (such as a guest who thinks she possesses the power of invisibility)—and all the cases of mistaken identity and foul-mouthed customers in between—this book paints a lively picture of humankind at its best and worst. Some of these anecdotes will make you laugh, others will make you groan, and a few may just give your tear ducts a workout. So, sit back with your favorite snack (Would you like some cheese dip with that? How about a lemonade?) and enjoy these missives from deep inside her Pretzel Land! Pat was born in Baltimore, but eventually made her way to Central Pennsylvania and settled in for many years. After graduating in 1992 from Lycoming College with a degree in English and a New Testament Greek minor (yeah, very useful) she dedicated her early career to social services. Pat worked for Special Olympics Pennsylvania for a decade, overseeing volunteers all over the state and really hitting on her passion for sports and her compassion for the developmentally disabled. She married her partner in 2008 and began working for the American Cancer Society as a patient services advocate. In 2011, it was time to make a change, and she purchased a pretzel store in sleepy little Berks County, Pennsylvania.  

As far back as the Norman Conquest of 1066, Watford with three towns was exceptional. Soon after, the king awarded Watford as a knight's fee--a parcel of land sufficient to support a knight. Two centuries on, the single holding was broken into separate manors for the deceased lord's daughters. Some 350 troublesome years and three families later, the manors of Watford were recombined by a wealthy London merchant.Remarkably, the heirs of the Ardern family of Watford held the manors continuously for nearly 500 years from the twelfth century, claiming a unique place in English history.Accurately presented and meticulously researched, The Watford Knight's Fee explores the Watford manors, revealing surprising stories of their lands and those who occupied their medieval halls. The first book of its kind to be published on the subject, The Watford Knight's Fee is a must-read for any English or medieval history enthusiast. Author Murray Johnston adds colour to the story with original text and images of documents, reproductions of maps of the grounds, and ample charts of land holdings.

Recovering from the slavish life of working for a big law firm, John Mariner looks forward to settling into his new small firm and spending more time reconnecting with his wife and two young children. Before he can do much settling, tragedy strikes the firm. One of the lead partner’s closest friends and business partner—and, as luck would have it, John’s main client—commits suicide. With scarcely any time to grieve, trouble finds John and his firm once more—this time a missing secretary. The Houston police detective assigned to the case solicits John for his help in solving the suicide and missing secretary. As John delves deeper into the suspicious circumstances surrounding both cases, more deaths occur and startling similarities begin to emerge, leading John down a more perilous path than he could ever have imagined.The Wrong Choices: A John Mariner Mystery is the highly anticipated prequel to author Eddy Roger’s equally fast-moving 2016 novel, The Lucky Strike. Follow the unlikely hero, John Mariner, as he finds himself embroiled in yet another life-or-death adventure. Eddy Rogers, a mostly-retired corporate lawyer, spent his career buying, selling, and starting up companies for clients. Rogers has written a number of professional articles and non-fiction short stories, and in 2016 published The Lucky Strike, his first short novel. The Wrong Choices: A John Mariner Mystery is a prequel to that book.

Joni Arlan has been a clinical social worker counseling individuals of all ages. She resides in Florida with her husband and where two of her three adult children live. She is a grandmother having four grandchildren. She has always been interested in children's education, entertainment, special needs and charities. She is still a child at heart.

I love to cook with children! I am a teacher and twelve years ago, I started teaching kindergarten. I decided that I wanted to teach my class about the world. So, I decided the best way to do that would be through cooking. They loved it! Teaching the children to cook was so much fun! The children often shared places they had been and food they had eaten. The children were learning so many things when cooking. They learned about the country, how to work together, use their math skills and most importantly patience for the finished product. The other thing that I discovered as time went on, was how the children were paying attention to the smells of the different recipes and how they remembered who they were with and where they were. This was so exciting for me. I had read that the sense of smell which is created in the olfactory bulb, which is in the limbic system of the brain, is closely associated with memory and feeling which is sometimes called the ìemotional brain.î Smells can bring memories and powerful responses almost instantly. Because the olfactory bulb has a close access to the amygdala, which processes emotion and the hippocampus which is responsible for associative learning. The first time you encounter a smell you link it to an event, person, or moment. The next time you encounter the smell you elicit the memory or mood. This is so exciting for both myself and my students! Watching this happen, gave me the inspiration to write a series of childrenís book to teach children about the world through the magic of food. When children are immersed in culture they learn more meaningfully and remember always. My vision is that all children will want to learn about the world through cooking.

Changing My Mind: Reinventing Myself In Retirement examines the transition from career to retirement from every angle. Each year, approximately 4 million people in the United States retire. Many of these people prepare financially for this major life event, but do not adequately prepare for the emotional and social impact of retiring. It can be stressful to cope with the changes retirement brings. At a time when we expected to be happy and relaxed, we can find ourselves struggling to come up for air. Further increasing the degree of difficulty, many people tackle secondary or related changes in their lives at the same time as they retire. Retirees often relocate. Retirees often become caregivers for loved ones. Retirees often find their relationships change. Retirees often wonder how to have a fulfilling, satisfying life after leaving the workforce. With all this major metamorphosis whipping around in our brains, it is no wonder that retiring can feel a bit like stepping into a violent change tsunami. Changing My Mind grapples with all these challenges and more. Dorry Curran provides a perspective on coping with the retirement transition that is often humorous, sometimes poignant... and unfailingly practical.

Michael and Madison have precious little in common. The only thing the two children seem to share is the concern their parents feel over their lack of social skills. As a forced play date between the two unfolds with little success, fate strikes. A radiation wave envelopes most of the world, destroying with it much of the world's population. The two children who were once at odds now find themselves together alone in the aftermath. Takkuttaname and Vena likewise have seemingly little in common. Vena is a glamorous inhabitant of one of earth's last remaining cities, Takkoma, while Takkuttaname is an unruly tribe member from the forbidden wilderness. The two are from separate worlds, and yet a chance meeting will bring them together in ways they never would have imagined. As Takkoma's callous leader seeks to build the city's population by force, Vena and Takkuttaname must work together to save their people. Beautiful Dawn is the story of two divergent stories that come together in a most unexpected way. Author Justin Trissel brings to life complex characters whose breathtaking journeys leave their mark long after the stories' completion. Justin Trissel is an American author from Tacoma, WA. From as early as age four Justin was coming up with ideas for stories, ones that his mother would type down before he even knew how to write. After considering some fifty story ideas over a twenty year period, Justin decided after college to write down a story he spontaneously came up with that he knew would have a perfect ending. Now he brings you his debut novel, Beautiful Dawn.

Happiness is something we hear about every day. We hear people say it all the time “I’m happy about it”, “We are a happy family”, “I’m not happy” and on and on. Yet we hear it in the movies and in songs that we want to be happy, to find happiness, and we think we know what that is and we think we know where it is hiding. If we could only get that one thing, that thing that will turn our life around and then we could be happy forever. No more sadness. When I ask people if they’re happy I always get the proverbial deer in the headlights look because the question stumps them and it stumped me too for about 60 years but I believe I have found the answer and I definitely know how to answer that question now if I were to be asked. Chasing the rainbow to find that pot of gold or that treasure chest of happiness just isn’t going to happen but it’s not all bad news. Actually it’s good news because I believe that anyone can get closer to having complete happiness just by recognizing how to do it, where to find it, and how to disengage from those things in your life that make you unhappy. Once you read through this book you will understand what I mean and you will also be able to quickly answer the question as to whether you are happy or not without hesitation.

A Memoir: A innocent 18 year old leaves home to join the military during a time of war.  He leaves because he can no longer live with the religious mandates imposed by his parents Mennonite faith.  The Marine Corps boot camp and further training leave him filled with fear, uncertainty, and yet as a marine filled with pride.  He serves 20 months in Vietnam during the height of the war (67-69) as a combat radio operator.  Wounded twice, forced to witness a haunting murder, and living one day at a time he struggles to meet the date he can leave Vietnam.  Finally he is sent to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA to become a Drill Instructor.  After training seven platoons of raw recruit to face the hostile environment he left he is discharged after 4 years of a honorable decorated service.  He marries, starts a family, earns his college degree while facing the hostile professors and student body in protest over the war he so valiantly fought. Years pass before he falls into a deep dark hole of depression.  Obsessed with memories of Vietnam that won't leave him alone he see suicide as his only reprieve.  Afraid of what he might do he finds help thru the local Veterans Hospital. No one but his wife understands the life he live and the medications required to keep him level.  His family and friends see him as a happy, success former marine living life's dream. Little does anyone know the torment he's forced to live with everyday.  When people ask him when he was in Vietnam, he responds by saying from November 1967 - July 1969.  What he really wants to tell them is: 15 MINUTES AGO.   CRAIG TSCHETTER, writes vividly about being raised by parents of strict Mennonite faith and his struggles to deal with their religious mandates.  Enlisting in the Marine Corps to escape home he finds himself in the jungles of Vietnam for 20 months and then at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA as a Drill Instructor.  Educated with a degree in Mortuary Science he spends the next 34 years are spent in the funeral service industry.  Craig and his wife, Della, live in Brookings, SD and have two children.  Their daughter and granddaughter reside in Florida and their son in Oregon.  

Egypt Styles is a young African American woman who is confused about love. After being hurt, abused, and lied to Egypt who is also known in her city as Money begins to see the love that she thought existed in her heart was better to quickly be replaced with the root of all evil itself… Money.Although with a genuine heart and confident mind as well as beauty being a gift to her, Money just wants to be a normal, wealthy successful woman that has it all in place. With the love of her life and an offer for a photoshoot  nothing can come between Money and her dreams about true love being ‘real’. Trust and loyalty plays a big part in who Money seems to be the right fit for her love. When Money learns that love and lies are competing against each other, she goes on a rampage to get both revenge and answers even if it brings the ones close to her to their death.