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"WHY" derives from my life experiences where I have struggled. Things like the God concept, relationships, addiction, and things that cause me to suffer in life; always had me asking the question. "Why do I do these things that cause me to suffer?" After many years of counseling, group therapy, Bible studies, and a whole lot of reading; I have finally come up with some answers. Since I know that a lot of other people struggle with the same things, I figured that maybe I could help others realize that life can be a wonderful journey when one understands why many of us suffer for no good reason. Most of it comes from the way we fall victim to our own thought patterns, and the way we think about things. So this is the first book in the series to help one begin to open their minds and become self-aware of their own beliefs. I urge you to ask yourself, why do you think like you do, and is your own thinking stopping you from a life of satisfaction? No matter how bad you think your life to be, there is a brighter future in store for anyone who learns to ask themselves the question." Why do I believe something to be true?" Do I have all of the information? Does this go along with who I want to be? All these questions lead to self awareness. When one becomes self-aware they can use self forgiveness in order to reset the thought process into a positive form. Thoughts are a form of nonphysical energy the mind uses to create. It's all about the energy. The natural law of attraction is the very law which makes magnets attract to each other. If you've ever played with magnets you soon learn that to turn one of them around makes it repel the other magnet. When released, the magnet spins around and sticks to the other magnet. This law of attraction is what makes thoughts either positive or negative, attract more of the same. To become aware of this natural law of attraction, with free will we can hold positive thoughts against negative thoughts. This way of thinking requires practice and through this practice one manifests all that one receives. Natural law like gravity controls all the energy in the universe. All energy physical and nonphysical requires a positive and a negative in order to flow. If one can recognize this life energy as God then one has something physical to prove God. We are alive because of the life energy that is God which allow us to create our own little world. We are the God of our own little world only because, of the life energy that is God who lives and creates through us. God does not have to punish man because man punishes himself in the name of God. If not for self-inflicted wounds we would have no problems. We manifest all that happens to us through the power of thought. Thought that stimulates fear is very powerful so the things we worry about contain enough energy for the universe to make it happen. The law of attraction happens whether we're thinking about it or not. This is the very reason a person with an arachnophobia, when in the presence of a spider, finds that the spider will make a beeline right towards them. The universe presents to us what we think about, therefore giving us the chance to get over our fears. When we come to understand the workings of something we are afraid of. We learn how to deal with it, therefore knowing why we no longer need to fear it. This is knowledge. With knowledge comes power. Using this power of knowledge to flow with the universal-good; is what I term wisdom. The easiest way can be the hardest to learn. All energy seeks the path of least resistance. Though I believe all this information to be part of the natural instinct we are born with. I call it common sense; gets tainted when we fall for false beliefs. To change these false beliefs leads to personal freedom. The freedom to manifest all we want through the universal power that is God. To flow with the energy of the universe that doesn't harm the planet or people is satisfying and wise.

In the literary fiction novel Parting the Mend, Steve Coleman is a man living on the last ravaged, dangling thread. Once an accomplished athlete, Steve's life has spiraled into substance abuse and fades to a destructive existence in a decrepit apartment he shares with the ghosts of his late wife and his past. When his parents die suddenly, Steve must work with his successful brother Marty, who privately deals with burgeoning addictions of his own, to sell the family home. As Steve's life further splits from reality his behavior threatens to derail the increasingly essential sale and invade Marty's personal and public life. When a final act could take a criminal turn, Steve is sent away for treatment by his exasperated brother In a post-rehab search for relief and meaning for the future, Steve reconnects with his former basketball coach, Cleo Washington, and attempts to rid himself of the ever-present and very active spirit of his wife. Cleo, who is near the end of his career, knows it is time to turn over the local club team to another, gives Steve a last chance and offers him a position as an assistant. When the promotion to head coach happens sooner than expected the task may be too great for the unprepared and under motivated Steve; while across the hallway, new neighbors, with a tragic story of their own, force Steve into roles his new found sobriety is unequipped for. Lurking behind the Coleman brothers and drawn to each is Abcde/Abby, an artist suffering from multiple personalities that she cannot control. One may provide the balance needed in Steve's life and the other the fulcrum that threatens Marty's marriage. Much like the life of an addict, the narrative is broken into pieces that long for completion, relaying the story through a combination of narrative, artifact and shifting points of view. Ideal for readers of With or Without You by Domenica Ruta who know that stories of recovery do not always conclude with redemption and those who embrace the notion in A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman that one life, no matter how lost or ragged, can influence and inspire so many others.

Butternut Street tells the story of an eccentric but delightfully lighthearted inventor who moves into a house next to one occupied by two young children, their parents and their kitties. The inventor turns to the children with a twinkle in his eye for their ideas in solving problems with his flummox machine. With their parents' permission, they respond with creativity and imagination. They utilize ordinary household items, like a sheet of plastic, a laundry basket, a mirror and a candle to enable the machine to fly. The whole neighborhood celebrates the accomplishment.

This is a collection of my own creations, savory meat and vegetable dishes and delectable desserts. Some recipes I have modified and some are treasured family keepsakes. However, with step-by-step instructions, most are easy to prepare and they all reflect the love of good cooking.

The local and international media; CNN, BBC, CGTN, Al-Jazeera etc. have been inundated with reports of violent clashes, kidnappings and terrorist attacks across the Sahel region and Mali in particular for almost a decade. The violence has left the world bewildered and totally astonished. Gamawa's book tells the dramatic and gripping story of the Tuareg and their quest for independence from Mali which has remained as histrionic as ever. The book provides vivid account of the violence that has engulfed the Sahel region as a whole; Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Ansaraddeen and other splinter groups in Mali and Burkina Faso and the violence, terror and mayhem they have unleashed in the region and held it hostage until now. The Sahel region as it is, has turned into a theatre of violence such as found in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia or Sudan. The Tuareg, following in the footsteps of the Almoravids, their predecessors that conquered Spain and left their marks in the stunning beauties of Alhambra and Granada as testimonies, have remained proud and overbearing. The Tuareg people throughout history have never been beneath the impulsion of any group. The book is a stunning and dramatic account of one of the greatest ancient African empires; the Mali empire that was colonized by the French and now an independent modern state and its struggle to overcome the challenges of nation building and the threat posed by the Tuareg, occupying the desert North of the country that has resulted in a never ending fierce combat. The revolt in 2012 saw the Tuareg and other Jihadist groups taking control of Northern Mali, it came within a whisker of seizing the country, it is perhaps the apt armed intervention of Paris that precluded Mali from totally falling into the hands of elements the West and many African states and organizations have designated as terrorist organizations.In the 'Flames in the Sahel' Yusuf Ibrahim Gamawa tells a compellingly tragic and fierce story that is still unfolding, a classical one that has remained as contemporary as ever. The violence and reign of terror across the region has continued and will continue to make the news headlines.

In the kingdom of Manitoba, the most hated king of all time holds great powers over his people. Manitoba is ruled by a bloodthirsty king named Kalus. Kalus had inherited his late father's throne as the tradition required. Kalus was born with natural powers to rule the kingdom, but these natural powers were not enough for Kalus. Kalus wanted more; he was thirsty for power, and he wanted to become immortal. And to realize his dream to become immortal, Kalus made a pact with a devil called "Lord." Kalus received the satanic powers from Lord, which were going to help Kalus stay immortal. But, in exchange, Kalus had to fulfill some devilish conditions; Kalus would use these satanic powers to mystically control the soul of children, to torture children, and to drink the blood of children. Lord and Kalus had a plan, and this plan was to turn the kingdom of Manitoba into a kingdom of vampires. Lord and Kalus would make the future generations of Manitoba children into vampires by possessing the souls of these future generations before their birth. However, during the quest of Lord and Kalus to turn the kingdom of Manitoba into a vampire kingdom, they face a big obstacle with the birth of a powerful child named Sunshine. Sunshine started fighting Lord and Kalus to protect and save the souls of children and to prevent the kingdom of Manitoba from becoming a vampire kingdom. Then, Sunshine was joined in her fight by Luna, who was the heiress to the throne of Manitoba. Would Sunshine and Luna succeed in saving the souls of children? Would they succeed in saving the future generations of Manitoba by preventing Lord and Kalus from turning them into vampires? Would Sunshine and Luna succeed in killing Lord and Kalus who were immortals? Or will the kingdom of Manitoba become a vampire kingdom once and for all?