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This story is one that has been waiting inside all of us who question the dominance of religion in the world. The messages most of us learned growing up are overdue to be examined. This novel leads the reader into a new way of viewing self in the context of who we really are and who or what forces are guiding our lives. The story begins when a sport's writer has an unexpected visitor drop in as he is working on an article for the local paper. That visitor was a voice requesting his assistance in reporting the truth about the nature of the creative force of the universe known as God by many. The word "God" has been so misused that this voice, talking to the sports writer, cringes when introducing itself as the voice of God. As the writing project continues they agree to change God's name to GUS because it would put into question all that had been claimed to have been said by God by so many who had no idea what they were talking about. Come on this enlightened journey so that you can be released from the false beliefs of the past and instead, find your way to a more empowering relationship with the guiding force of the universe.

Telling my story was the most difficult task I have ever undertaken, and I did not make the decision to do so lightly. In fact, it took me fifteen years to gather the courage to tell my truth. I know that I would never have found the strength if it had not been for all of the brave women who came before me-the women who found the courage to give voice to their own truths-through poems, short stories, novels, essays, speeches, and memoirs: the women whose life lessons helped me come to understand and appreciate my own. It has been nearly a year since I sent my story out into the world. What I wished at the time was that one woman would read it, its message would resonate with her, and she would share it with another woman and begin a conversation. While I am thrilled that the book did spark such interactions, I could not have predicted what happened next. As women began to reflect upon their own life experiences, they wanted to share them-to pay it forward-to add their voices and offer their life lessons to others. As a result of this strong desire, the I Am Subject project was born. Together with Anora McGaha, founder of Women Writers, Women's Books, we put forth a call for submissions. We realized that women often lose their sense of self to external roles, expectations, and objectifications. Many times, we don't even realize that we are no longer the subject of our own lives. Yet, if we begin to strip away all of the external layers-those that define us by the roles we play-what would be left? Who would we be? We invited women to share their own powerful moments of claiming or reclaiming themselves as subjects of their own lives. More than 70 women from across the globe responded, and as I read each story, I was incredibly moved by the heartfelt authenticity of each writer's experience. Yet, as I put on my editor's hat and tried to envision individual pieces coming together in an anthology, I experienced a brief moment of panic. Obviously, each woman's experience was unique, and each story I read had little in common with the previous one, or the one before that. I began to wonder if it was indeed possible to meld the stories in such a way that each woman's truth would shine, and each story would flow seamlessly into the next. Of course, I should have known better. As I continued to read, common themes and patterns began to emerge organically from each piece, regardless of a woman's country of origin, socio-economic status, age or race. And just as I had discovered when I was researching the lives and works of numerous women writers for my collective memoir, I was struck by how each of our unique stories contains common threads that when woven together create a beautiful tapestry that is a woman's experience. This anthology consists of 36 stories that fall within four overarching themes related to women claiming or reclaiming themselves as subject of their own lives: family history, body and mind, internal and external roles, and life altering moments. I have provided a brief editor's note before each section. Like my own story, some of these truths are painful; all of the stories are powerful and genuine. Our truths do indeed matter, and when we give voice to them, we can often find support and shared community. When women claim themselves as subject of their own lives and share that experience, they move beyond self-empowerment to provide strong examples for others to learn from as well. As a result, when we heal ourselves, we often help others. I am filled with gratitude for every woman who shared her truth, and I know that within these pages you will find messages that offer hope and increased insight into your own life's journey.

In "Dr. Chuckle and Missed Her Ride," quipster Paul Frishkoff takes readers on a fantastic romp through history, pop culture and the arts that leaves no Ra-pun-zel unturned, from the gassy emanations of ancient pharaohs and Greeks to the love lives of Jack the Ripper and Genghis Khan. Malapropisms, collected over many years, draw readers into a priceless parallel reality, where the costumer is always right, the nation is plaqued with social problems and rappists are tried - and trying. Read slowly and savor. Many happy mirthdays to you.

Do I really need to vaccinate my baby? When should I worry about a tummy ache? Do all teenagers act like this? And how can my son and daughter be so completely different?Raising children doesn't have to be such a puzzle. All you need are good instincts and a set of down-to-earth directions to help you on your way. Instructions not Included is the practical manual they forgot to send you home with when you checked out of the maternity ward and into the wondrous, baffling world of parenthood. Part medical memoir and part how-to guide, this warm, handy reference delivers down-to-earth parenting advice straight from the mouth of a seasoned pediatrician. Over the course of four decades, Dr. Irwin H. Berkowitz has cared for more than 30,000 children and their parents. Now, he invites readers to join him at the examination table for a tour through childhood - as seen through a pediatrician's lens.This tour begins with the story of Dr. Berkowitz's own journey through medical school, residency and private practice and then makes stop-offs at every major phase in a child's development, from birth all the way to adolescence. Dr. Berkowitz draws on colorful, illustrative anecdotes culled from his years in training, practice and parenting as he dispenses advice on everything from planning your family to assessing common illnesses to what to look for (and what to look out for) during each unique stage of childhood.Drawing on the commonsense tradition of beloved pediatrician and parenting guide author Dr. Benjamin Spock, Instructions not Included offers new (and newly flummoxed) parents the sound advice and heartfelt encouragement they need to bring up some of the best kids on the block.

The traumas and losses of childhood are often buried. The child grows up appearing normal, unscathed and perhaps even successful. But often what is buried comes back to attack at the very moment when life is reaching its pinnacle. This is the story of one woman's spiral downward into physical and mental breakdown and her return to wholeness by courageously, and some would say recklessly, following her intuition. Ms. Montanye's intuition leads her to a tiny town in a Colorado canyon alongside the wild and scenic Cache La Poudre River. There, she immerses herself in the grandeur and beauty of the surrounding mountains. When her journey begins, no one involved can know that it will lead to such a powerful and bittersweet end: an end that includes healing for herself, her marriage and for the difficult relationship she endured with her mother.

As a teacher of writing and Women's Studies, I have spent many years studying the lives and works of women writers. I Am Subject: Sharing our Truths to Reclaim Our Selves is a memoir that combines my own history with the words and experiences of other writers to examine the issues that perplex contemporary women. This work conveys women's experiences by weaving together memoir, literary texts and criticism, and student reflection. Simply knowing that others have struggled can bring women out of isolated suffering to a deeper sense of awareness and understanding. Our early interpersonal relationships, combined with the societal and cultural messages we receive, influence all of our subsequent actions, including our sexual experiences, our intimate relationships, our decision to have children or not have children, our career choices, and our tendency to deal with life's challenges either constructively or destructively. I Am Subject provides a safe space for women to increase their awareness regarding where they have come from and where they are going as they move forward into the next stages of their lives. I hope that those who read these words will sit with them, give thought to how they might apply to their own lives and the lives of women they know, and begin their own conversations regarding how to best turn increased awareness into action. I Am Subject: Sharing Our Truths to Reclaim Our Selves is the result of fifteen years of research, over forty years of life experience, and my own lessons learned in the classroom. This work is my passion, and in these pages I try to do justice to the life lessons of the women who came before me, so that together we might positively influence those who follow us. This work provides insight into the complicated choices women make, and offers a fresh perspective and positive alternatives for women to embrace in order to truly discover and pursue their genuine life paths. It is my dream that perhaps, through my insights and difficult lessons learned, and through sharing the life lessons of others, readers might never have to visit that dark place of self-doubt and loathing, and instead can make their way in this world knowing that their stories matter.

If you invite the wisdom of these ideas into your daily life, you will be transformed. Having the voice of your soul showing you the way will: -Fill your life with joy -Open your heart to an even richer expression -Help you set yourself free of any self-imposed limits -Lift your life from ordinary to extraordinary This book is for you, the you that knows there is more to life. The voice of the soul can be a very powerful guiding force showing you the way to the life you have always wanted to create. Applying this voice to daily living will fill each day with a flow of light, love, joy, and peace.

To be human is a great experience but being human with all of its pleasure brings some pain. We are all inevitably prone to scrapes, bruises, sprained joints, headaches and all manner of discomfort. Most of us know some first-aid measures for these physical problems. We have band-aids, aspirin and vitamin supplements, and drug store counters full of self-help remedies. But just as we all have some physical problems from time-to-time, so do we all experience emotional bumps and bruises. We get anxious, depressed, lonely and jealous, and a whole spectrum of unpleasant feelings. In "Life Ain't for Sissies," Dr. Sugarman gives us variable first-aid tips that address some of the common emotional disorders and personal problems arising from our competitive, demanding and stressful world. Anxiety, boredom and clinical depression - the common colds of emotional disorders - get a full examination without paying the hourly rate. Dr. Sugarman's valuable tips and suggestions can help avoid more serious pain and costly problems down the road. Some patients who are already receiving help from qualified mental health professionals have suggested to them that they read and learn from "Life Ain't for Sissies." They have found that the suggestions and advice based on important research and clinical experience can provide first-aid as well as maintenance of emotional health.

New Altitude chronicles one woman's remarkable passage beyond tough times to the top of the world. After a devastating MS diagnosis, Wendy Booker fell haphazardly into running the Boston Marathon for charity. From that one simple act, an extraordinary series of circumstances unfolds that is nothing short of kismet. Overcoming illness and divorce, and tackling one of the toughest mountains in the world twice, Wendy finds herself atop Denali (Mt. McKinley, Alaska) in 2004 at the age of 50. That accomplishment propels her next aspiration: to climb the Seven Summits (the highest peak on each of the seven continents). Follow her inspiring, poignant, and sometimes hilarious adventures as she seeks to conquer the mountains on her list with the intimidating specter of Mt. Everest looming on the horizon, and discovers a whole new world along the way. Wendy Booker is an "accidental athlete" whose journey of self-discovery, serendipity and stubbornness will leave readers laughing, crying, and seeking their own mountains.

In 2011, propelled by a growing sense of dread, Brian Heron embarked on an epic 4,000 mile bicycle adventure through some of America's most challenging terrain. A series of personal and professional losses left him feeling that his world was crumbling at an alarming rate. His wife of twenty five years had suddenly left one night. Eighteen months later his mother-in-law, with whom we was especially close, died after a four year struggle with dementia. A year after that his stepmother died unexpectedly during a routine, but risky open heart surgery. If that wasn't enough, he was leading a church through a process of closing and putting in place their legacy in the community. He was working himself out of a job. In a short period of four years both his personal and professional life were disintegrating like a sand castle facing high tide. Replacing Forrest Gump's running shoes for a bike he felt compelled to set off. Searching for a feeling of belonging he decided to return to the towns, to the people and the places that had shaped him. He would return to the town of his birth, Bozeman, Montana, where his parents had divorced and his mother disappeared from his life. He would spend a few days in the town of his childhood, Loveland, Colorado, that was the source of his most formative years and painful memories. He would ride through his old college campus where his life most made sense, if only for a few years. And he would return to Northern California where most of his adult life took shape with family, theological education, friends, and serving the community in various capacities. Along the way he would pedal across the rugged Rocky Mountains of Colorado, survive the lonely and desolate desert of Nevada in the heat of August, and negotiate his way through the jungle of California freeways. He would find himself in the belly of the whale in a drug-infested, paint peeling, shitty motel feeling completely alone and abandoned by the world and God. He would battle thunder and lightning storms, 100 degree heat, cars and semis, an especially bold buffalo, and his own personal demons. He would face the truth of his life, the reality of his dissolving profession, and the losses that life had thrown onto his path. New York Times bestselling author of the William Shakespeare's Star Wars Series, Ian Doescher, writes of Brian's book, "Alone is a compelling journey of personal discovery, religious questioning and spiritual awakening. At times deep, at times sad, at times funny, Heron invites the reader to ride along each day of this remarkable adventure. When it's over, you'll feel each of the 4,000 miles in your own soul." Join Brian as he follows the pilgrim path on an adventure of personal healing, the renewal of strength and hope, and the rediscovery of his unique place in the world. Take the journey with Brian, look into the pages of your own life, and learn to honor the wounds and the delights of your own yearning soul.

A Dark Country is a tale of an ordinary man from Montana, Jack Duncan; hunting guide, contractor, family man, who when pushed into a corner by his own personal financial collapse, makes "a deal with the devil." The "devil", James Beck, is an extraordinarily wealthy man and old hunting client of Duncan's who entangles him in a sporting club where the game is the apex of all predators: man. The story takes the reader on a thrilling adventure from the wilds of Montana to the seas and jungles of Mexico and Central America from the point of view of Jack Duncan. Bogart's intimate knowledge and love of nature and the outdoors shines in Duncan's vision of the wild beauty that surrounds him while at the same time looking inward at the human potential for darkness and evil. Duncan's internal quest explores themes of greed, morality, and infidelity on his journey of self discovery and his attempts to extricate himself from good intentions gone bad.

Respected Kidney specialist, Malcolm Christian, has spent years intrigued by "salt," a substance-long imbued with deep medical, mystical and religious significance. When a deranged killer embarks on a ritualistic series of murders by salt injection, teasing the authorities with a trail of cryptic, salt-related clues, Dr. Christian must draw on his knowledge of the substance''s natural and symbolic properties to beat the killer at his own game. But matters of salt are never simple-and neither is being a Black man in a White man''s world. Christian must match wits with a bigoted NYPD detective, dodge hospital higher-ups with their own axes to grind, and even join the killer in a dangerous covenant of salt to stop the killing. Can Dr. Christian solve this riddle of this divine and deadly substance-or is he doomed to become its next victim?