Download or read book Framily Friends Considered Family written by Lou Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports is like war without the killing. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Ted Turner and President Woodrow Wilson have enlightened us with their innermost thoughts regarding sports and friendship. Framily (friends considered family), in similar fashion to the first two books of the trilogy, 8 Center Field in New York, 1951-1957 and Dopey Bastid coalesces sports and friendship in a unique way. Three friends since childhood, now adults and all reconnected with their teenage girlfriends and starting families; share the spotlight as the recollection of notable sporting events come to life. Relive accounts of the NCAA tournament with Magic and Bird, the USA Olympic hockey team miracle in 1980, the Mets World Series victory over the Red Sox in 1986, the Giants Super Bowl XXI triumph, and many others as you laugh out loud, perhaps shed a tear and reflect on the true meaning of friendship.
Download or read book Bless Me Father written by Lou Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLESS ME FATHER has captured the curiosity and evoked enthusiasm of law enforcement professionals and a former Catholic priest. Bless Me Father is a departure from Lou Saulinos previous books about growing up with the love of sports. His fi rst crime story hits it out of the ballpark.a great read and defi nitely a page turner. - John E. Sullivan Det. NYPD Ret. I liked this book. It is a tough, smart and compassionate story. There are memorable characters. I know of no one who could have written a book like this. Lou has the real-life experience and the heart to give all of us the life changing thoughts. - P. Olsinski, Teacher, Counselor, Student of People Family, families---intertwined by: love and protection of each other, right or wrong; sports, sorrow and guilt, Bless Me Father entertains with a little sports history; but also is thought provoking---what, how do you honor faith, a memory and vows to family. An enjoyable weekend read. - Cecile T. Woodward, Assistant Police Chief, Phoenix PD Ret.
Download or read book Athlete for Hire written by Lou Saulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional sports team owner (baseball, football, and basketball) meets with his general managers to discuss a highly acclaimed college athlete featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. His proficiency is in the three sports identified. When the owner becomes disgruntled with the fact that all three of his general managers want the athlete for their respective sport, he exclaims, Why cant we draft this kid for all three of my teams? As the college senior competes in each sport during the year, a due diligence plan is prepared and successfully implemented to have the athlete drafted by all three professional teams. The three-sport star eventually agrees to sign a contract requiring him to be available as needed in the basis for each sport. He becomes an Athlete for Hire.
Download or read book Better Your Best written by Jo Bruce and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In life, we need friendly reminders of who we are at our best, a nudge to evolve to do better, and insights to ignite us to act. This book focuses on your strengths, your dreams, your "whys" in life. It's about building on the good to make it better--Bettering Your Best. The secret sauce in life is the ingredients we choose. Read and digest the recipes that Jo's top clients, colleagues, and friends from Detroit and across the country have to say about success, happiness, and influence. Life is like a huge buffet with many choices. Choose wisely and satisfy your appetite in the best, healthiest, most delicious way. Self-worth and happiness start with great ingredients: confidence, gratitude, goal setting, and thinking deeper about what matters and why. Life is truly about living and leading with love and leaving behind the most important ingredient--love. Jo shares her perspectives on living life with her dollop of good juju from JoJo! Discover for yourself in this inner active book what your special ingredients are to create your gold medal, blue ribbon, and three-star Michelin life!
Download or read book Parents Who Lead written by Stewart D. Friedman and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact. Parents in today's fast-paced, disorienting world can easily lose track of who they are and what really matters most. But it doesn't have to be this way. As a parent, you can harness the powerful science of leadership in order to thrive in all aspects of your life. Drawing on the principles of his book Total Leadership--a bestseller and popular leadership development program used in organizations worldwide--and on their experience as researchers, educators, consultants, coaches, and parents, Stew Friedman and coauthor Alyssa Westring offer a robust, proven method that will help you gain a greater sense of purpose and control. It includes tools illustrated with compelling examples from the lives of real working parents that show you how to: Design a future based on your core values Engage with your children in fresh, meaningful ways Cultivate a community of caregiving and support, in all parts of your life Experiment to discover better ways to live and work Powerful, practical, and indispensable, Parents Who Lead is the guide you need to forge a better future, foster meaningful and mutually rewarding relationships, and design sustainable solutions for creating a richer life for yourself, your children, and your world. For more information, visit ParentsWhoLead.net.
Download or read book Families in the Greco Roman World written by Ray Laurence and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approaches to the study of the family in antiquity.
Download or read book Mending Broken Branches written by Elizabeth Oates and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to invite God to step in and break the cycle of dysfunction Elizabeth Oates is no stranger to a dysfunctional family. She may look like the quintessential soccer mom now, but her childhood was full of uncertainty, abandonment, and many very dark days. Without a positive role model, an emotionally stable family member, or a consistent community, she had to forge her way ahead just to survive day to day. It wasn't until she was preparing for a family of her own that she began to learn the lessons that would lead to a more hopeful future for herself, her husband, and her children. Now she shares those lessons with other women struggling to create healthy families despite their own unhealthy family foundations. Through introspective and probing questions, Mending Broken Branches guides the reader to accept her past, understand her present, and find a vision for her future. The interactive design includes space to work through the journaling prompts provided, as well as extra-wide margins for notes of reflection while reading. With the gentle voice of a trusted mentor, Elizabeth encourages and equips women to cultivate strong, flourishing, God-honoring lives, and to break the cycle of dysfunction.
Download or read book Involuntary Dislocation written by Renos K. Papadopoulos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renos K. Papadopoulos clearly and sensitively explores the experiences of people who reluctantly abandon their homes, searching for safer lives elsewhere, and provides a detailed guide to the complex experiences of involuntary dislocation. Involuntary Dislocation: Home, Trauma, Resilience, and Adversity-Activated Development identifies involuntary dislocation as a distinct phenomenon, challenging existing assumptions and established positions, and explores its linguistic, historical, and cultural contexts. Papadopoulos elaborates on key themes including home, identity, nostalgic disorientation, the victim, and trauma, providing an in-depth understanding of each contributing factor whilst emphasising the human experience throughout. The book concludes by articulating an approach to conceptualising and working with people who have experienced adversities engendered by involuntary dislocation, and with a reflection on the language of repair and renewal. Involuntary Dislocation will be a compassionate and comprehensive guide for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, and other professionals working with people who have experienced displacement. It will also be important reading for anyone wishing to understand the psychosocial impact of extreme adversity.
Download or read book With a Little Help from Our Friends written by Beth Baker and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, an award-winning journalist tells the story of people devising innovative ways to live as they approach retirement, options that ensure they are surrounded by a circle of friends, family, and neighbors. Based on visits and interviews at many communities around the country, Beth Baker weaves a rich tapestry of grassroots alternatives, some of them surprisingly affordable: • a mobile home cooperative in small-town Oregon • a senior artists colony in Los Angeles • neighbors helping neighbors in "Villages" or "naturally occurring retirement communities" • intentional cohousing communities • best friends moving in together • multigenerational families that balance togetherness and privacy • niche communities including such diverse groups as retired postal workers, gays and lesbians, and Zen Buddhists Drawing on new research showing the importance of social support to healthy aging and the risks associated with loneliness and isolation, the author encourages the reader to plan for a future with strong connections. Baker explores whether individuals in declining health can really stay rooted in their communities through the end of life and concludes by examining the challenge of expanding the home-care workforce and the potential of new technologies like webcams and assistive robots. This book is the recipient of the annual Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine.
Download or read book Real written by Earl Buchan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earl Buchan, a pastor and church planter, shares encouragement for all those looking around and saying to themselves “there must be more than this.” It all begins with a fearless searching of our hearts to rewild ministry from the inside-out. He looks to the Bible and over twenty years’ experience in the church to share from his own successes and failures sharing wisdom, warnings, and reminders of why we are meant to be in Christ. Earl shares that it all starts with us, live a life of openness and it will change the atmosphere in our churches and in our homes. As you read, you’ll get answers to questions such as: What can you really expect when you enter ministry? Why is it so important to be your authentic self in all circumstances? What are the costs to living His will, His way? How can we overcome ourselves so people see more of Jesus and less of us? This journey is not for the faint of heart, or those full of themselves. The author has been both, and he shares how the Lord rewilded his own heart in order to reveal the beauty of a called life.
Download or read book Make a Move How to Stop Wavering and Make Decisions in a Disorienting World written by Stephanie Williams O'Brien and published by Broadleaf Books. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We make thousands of decisions each day, and while most of them are simple and relatively easy, many of us get stuck in the larger, life-altering decisions. This can lead to frustration, anxiety, and confusion. It would be so much easier if life just came with a road map! But life doesn't work like that--it's full of twists and turns, the unexpected and the unforeseen. And yet, the uncertainty of life also brings adventure and exploration, surprises and wonder. In Make a Move, pastor and coach Stephanie Williams O'Brien offers practical advice and action steps for moving through the experiments of life. These steps help us narrow down the choices when it seems like the options are endless, and allow us to discern God's leadership in a way we never could while standing still. It's time to move from a disoriented life to a life of direction and intention. It's time to make a move!
Download or read book God S Vibes Matter written by Juliana Page and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When walking by faith is mostly unseen, we often dont see clear examples of what it looks like to apply the authority weve been given. Although there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to yielding to God and wielding the power of the Holy Spirit, the Bible does provide a rich spiritual training program and a guide for a potential way of lifeif we so choose to rely on it. In Gods Vibes MatterCo-laboring with God, author Juliana Page creates a context where followers of Christ can partner with God to regularly collaborate on the most important areas of their lives. The race we are running is one full of supernatural possibilities to live in Gods wonderful newness of life through embracing the spiritual disciplines that bring freedom in every area of our lives. This kind of running is done by fixing our hearts on Christ, our one true source of strength, and it is through this anchoring that we will be inspired to dream and live beyond what weve planned.
Download or read book Like Family written by Margaret K. Nelson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, social scientists have assumed that “fictive kinship” is a phenomenon associated only with marginal peoples and people of color in the United States. In this innovative book, Nelson reveals the frequency, texture and dynamics of relationships which are felt to be “like family” among the white middle-class. Drawing on extensive, in-depth interviews, Nelson describes the quandaries and contradictions, delight and anxiety, benefits and costs, choice and obligation in these relationships. She shows the ways these fictive kinships are similar to one another as well as the ways they vary—whether around age or generation, co-residence, or the possibility of becoming “real” families. Moreover she shows that different parties to the same relationship understand them in some similar – and some very different – ways. Theoretically rich and beautifully written, the book is accessible to the general public while breaking new ground for scholars in the field of family studies.
Download or read book In a Book Club Far Away written by Tif Marcelo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Once Upon a Sunset and The Key to Happily Ever After comes a heartwarming and moving novel following three Army wives—estranged friends—who must overcome their differences when one of them is desperate for help. Regina Castro, Adelaide Wilson-Chang, and Sophie Walden used to be best friends. As Army wives at Fort East, they bonded during their book club and soon became inseparable. But when an unimaginable betrayal happened amongst the group, the friendship abruptly ended, and they haven’t spoken since. That’s why, eight years later, Regina and Sophie are shocked when they get a call for help from Adelaide. Adelaide’s husband is stationed abroad, and without any friends or family near her new home of Alexandria, Virginia, she has no one to help take care of her young daughter when she has to undergo emergency surgery. For the sake of an innocent child, Regina and Sophie reluctantly put their differences aside to help an old friend. As the three women reunite, they must overcome past hurts and see if there’s any future for their friendship. Featuring Tif Marcelo’s signature “enchanting prose” (Amy E. Reichert, author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake) and the books that brought them together in the first place, In a Book Club Far Away honors the immense power of female friendship and how love can defy time, distance, and all old wounds.
Download or read book Parenting for Liberation written by Trina Greene Brown and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking directly to parents raising Black children in a world of racialized violence, this guidebook combines powerful storytelling with practical exercises, encouraging readers to imagine methods of parenting rooted in liberation rather than fear. In 2016, activist and mother Trina Greene Brown created the virtual multimedia platform Parenting for Liberation to connect, inspire, and uplift Black parents. In this book, she pairs personal anecdotes with open-ended reflective prompts; together, they help readers dismantle harmful narratives about the Black family and imagine anti-oppressive parenting methods. Parenting for Liberation fills a critical gap in currently available, timely parenting resources. Rooted in an Afrofuturistic vision of connectivity and inspiration, the community created within these pages works to image a world that amplifies Black girl magic and Black boy joy, and everything in between. "Trina Greene Brown has created a guide for Black parents who want to raise fierce, fearless, joyful children. She knows what a challenge this is given the state of the world but argues that liberated parenting is possible if we commit to knowing and trusting ourselves, our children, and our communities. Anyone curious about how to walk with a child through tumultuous times needs to read this book now." —Dani McClain, author of We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
Download or read book Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask written by Hollister Rand and published by Atria Books/Beyond Words. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2021 GOLD LIVING NOW AWARD AND THE 2020 SILVER NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD From the world class spiritual medium and author of the “compassionate yet educational” (John Edward, author of Infinite Quest) I’m Not Dead, I’m Different comes an insightful exploration into what it’s like on the other side. Is there really an afterlife? Do spirits still feel love for us? What is it like when we cross over? After more than twenty-five years of bringing comfort to tens of thousands of people, Hollister Rand brings her incredible knowledge and experience to this accessible and comprehensive book that takes you on an eye-opening journey into the afterlife. With warm-hearted sincerity, Rand offers you a clear-eyed and uplifting view into an unknown universe and teaches you how to navigate your life on this earthly plane with eternity in mind. In an increasingly uncertain world, there is only one guarantee: we all face the same outcome. Featuring her signature humor and infused with authenticity regarding her own spiritual journey, Rand provides comfort, clarity, and laughs along the way.
Download or read book The Driving Force of Friendship written by Lorna Ritchie and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started as an offer of a ride to the south of France and continues as a lifelong connection. On that summer day more than a decade ago, as Lorna got comfy behind the wheel of her little Citroen and Godfrey settled in the passenger seat beside her, neither knew how far they, almost strangers, would voyage together. Over the years, as practitioners and teachers of Nonviolent Communication, these two people from very different backgrounds have travelled to destinations and places across Europe, and, enjoyed hours of conversation that took them back in time to their childhoods, through memories and life experiences and deep into their hearts. What they could not have expected is to have arrived at a friendship filled with love and mutual respect, and lots of laughter, that has held them bound through differences of opinion, silences and the ups and downs of life. This book charts that journey.
