Download or read book They Call Me Mom written by Michelle Medlock Adams and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving, funny devotions crafted for every day by moms who know the drill When women take on the role of mom, they take on a hundred other titles as well: healer, comforter, chef, teacher, cheerleader—and less flattering things like disciplinarian, ruiner of fun times, and chief worrier. In the middle of juggling all those roles, finding room to spend time alone seeking God can seem insurmountable. Moms Michelle Medlock Adams and Bethany Jett understand the struggles—and the joys. They've pulled together their own experiences with the crazy world of parenting as well as the most requested, most talked about topics on mommy blogs. Their research nailed down what moms really want to talk about. And then they created a devotional that speaks straight to the heart of the mommy life. They Call Me Mom is a lighthearted, transparent take on the real-life ups and downs mothers face through all stages of parenting. Whether mom just brought home her first baby or she has several kids and zero time, she'll find relatable words and helpful encouragement in these pages. And with one devotion for every week of the year, it's easy to fit in a few minutes with God in the middle of a full parenting life.

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Download or read book Take the Shot written by Sean Danz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam is a typical ten-year-old in fifth grade. He loves playing basketball and learning about history from his favorite teacher. At home, his family is far from typical as Sam and his three brothers attempt to get along. Growing up with brothers can be great at times, but when intense battles break out, Sam wonders if they are enemies or allies. At school, Sam and his friends play basketball every chance they get. Everything is great until a new kid shows up, forever altering the history books. An intense battle is brewing at school that could change everything. As Sam studies American history, he realizes his life at home and school is more and more like the battles he is learning about in class. Sam realizes that he has some important decisions to make. Will history repeat itself or will Sam be able to control his own destiny? Reading level: 4th grade-6th grade

Download or read book My Seven Black Fathers written by Will Jawando and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will Jawando's account of mentorship, service, and healing lays waste to the racist stereotype of the absent Black father. By arguing that Black fathers are not just found in individual families, but are indeed the treasure of entire Black communities, Will makes the case for a bold idea: that Black men can counter racist ideas and policies by virtue of their presence in the lives of Black boys and young men. This is a story we need to hear." —Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times–bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive in class and on the playground. Eventually, he became close to Kalfani, a kid he looked up to on the basketball court. Years after he got the call telling him that Kalfani was dead, another sickening casualty of gun violence, Will looks back on the relationships with an extraordinary series of mentors that enabled him to thrive. Among them were Mr. Williams, the rare Black male grade school teacher, who found a way to bolster Will’s self-esteem when he discovered he was being bullied; Jay Fletcher, the openly gay colleague of his mother who got him off junk food and took him to his first play; Mr. Holmes, the high school coach and chorus director who saw him through a crushing disappointment; Deen Sanwoola, the businessman who helped him bridge the gap between his American upbringing and his Nigerian heritage, eventually leading to a dramatic reconciliation with his biological father; and President Barack Obama, who made Will his associate director of public engagement at the White House—and who invited him to play basketball on more than one occasion. Without the influence of these men, Will knows he would not be who he is today: a civil rights and education policy attorney, a civic leader, a husband, and a father. Drawing on Will’s inspiring personal story and involvement in My Brother’s Keeper, President Obama’s national initiative to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color, My Seven Black Fathers offers a transformative way for Black men to shape the next generation.

Download or read book Performative Memoir written by Theresa Carilli and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performative Memoir: The Methodology of a Creative Process, Theresa Carilli and Adrienne Viramontes construct a new genre of writing, performative memoir. Drawing on scholarship in performance studies and autoethnography, the authors outline a methodology for studying autoethnography, performance, and memoir in a new creative process. Carilli and Viramontes then demonstrate the process by creating their own performative memoirs, titled “Loving Crazy” and “Mexican Love,” and perform a close reading of each memoir to show how these theories can be applied to our own personal experiences and trauma. Scholars of performance studies, communication, media studies, cultural studies, and trauma studies will find this book particularly useful.

Download or read book The Runs and Errors of a Baseball Mom s Life written by Annie Loney and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Runs and Errors of a Baseball Mom’s Life By: Annie Loney Annie Loney gives a peak of what it is like to be a Major League Baseball player’s mother. This book is not only of interest to fans of baseball, but also to mothers. Loney shares her own problems and difficulties in life that has made her a stronger person. She also shares stories about her son and how he became a professional baseball player. This story is an example of strength and the struggles a person goes through to gain the happiness they deserve.

Download or read book The Walls Are Breathing written by Julie N. Strickland and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: aEURoeThe walls are breathing,aEUR her 20-year-old son said. aEURoeI know itaEUR(tm)s not real, but thataEUR(tm)s what I see.aEUR So began Julie N. StricklandaEUR(tm)s education on mental illness. She did not know where to start, or who to call. A mechanical engineer, she had earned a master's degree. Research, she could do. Calling people, she could do. But dealing with doctors, insurance, and social security aEUR" all of these were difficult for her. For her son, these were impossible. From struggling to find a doctor who accepted new patients, to struggling to separate symptoms from drug side effects, she learned to advocate for her child. It took two years for him to recover, and another three for both of them to adjust to their aEURoenew normal." The LA Times estimates that one-third of the homeless population suffers from mental illness. While praying about how she could help, God told Strickland to share her story. If at least one person could get help, perhaps that person would stay off the street. If enough people could get help, the homeless population could shrink. Strickland decided to write a book to help others who find themselves in this situation without a road map. Readers can find the resources and advice that took her years to compile in the appendices and on her website (jnstrickland.com). By sharing this information, she hopes that at least one person can find the resources they need. Strickland is not a medical professional. She is not a psychiatrist, psychologist, or therapist. She is a mother who helped her child through a difficult illness. She is telling her story here to help other parents and families. Because few parents know how to react when their child says, "The walls are breathing."

Download or read book Living in a Man s World written by Mamie Parker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about growing up in the south and coaching children's football for 30 years.

Download or read book They Call Me Goose written by Jack Givens and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack "Goose" Givens first walked onto the basketball court at Lexington's Douglass Park for the legendary Dirt Bowl league, it was the beginning of one of the most illustrious sports careers in Kentucky history. After being named 1974's Mr. Basketball for the state of Kentucky as a high school senior, Givens signed with the University of Kentucky and went on to amass a string of achievements that place him among the all-time greats in NCAA college basketball—most notably leading UK to the 1978 NCAA Men's National Championship with his 41-point performance against the Duke Blue Devils in that historic game—and being named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player for that year. They Call Me Goose: My Life in Kentucky Basketball and Beyond is an intimate and all-encompassing look at the life and career of the basketball legend, from growing up in a housing project in Lexington, his success with UK men's basketball through his years with NBA's Atlanta Hawks and the Japan Basketball Association, his career as a college and NBA television color analyst, to his recent appointment as a commentator for the UK Sports Network. Givens shares personal and endearing stories from his childhood—how he was initially interested in baseball instead of basketball, the summers spent with his grandmother in Danville, Kentucky, and the teachers and coaches who guided and supported him along his journey. He also speaks candidly about his experiences with poverty, ruinous financial debt, the blowback from sexual assault allegations, and how his faith and his family helped sustain him through hardships and challenges. In collaboration with journalist Doug Brunk, Givens presents fans with the powerful story of a husband, father, mentor, businessman, and ambassador for Kentucky—who also just happens to be an iconic sports legend.

Download or read book Atlanta written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.

Download or read book In Sickness and in Play written by Cindy Dell Clark and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's 46 interviews with the families of children with chronic illness give an understanding of how the children comprehend their illnesses and how parents struggle daily to care for their kids while trying to give them a 'normal' childhood.

Download or read book Citizens of Light written by Sam Shelstad and published by Brindle & Glass. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sam Shelstad has a funny, lively, engaging, peculiar mind—charming and surprising.” —Sheila Heti, bestselling author of Motherhood and Pure Colour This debut novel set in southern Ontario captures call-centre life, faded tourist attractions, and suburbia with oddball wit and sharp realism. Colleen Weagle works in a call centre and lives in a bungalow with her mother in a quiet Toronto suburb. In her spare time she writes spec scripts for a CBC riding-school drama (her mother’s favourite) and plays an online game set in a resort populated by reindeer. It’s a typical life. Except three months ago Colleen’s husband Leonard—who led a similarly monotonous life—was found in a bog in the middle of the night, a two hours’ drive from home. Dead. With a flatly optimistic belief in the power of routine, Colleen has been soldiering on, trying not to think too hard about all the unknowns surrounding the death. But when a local news photo twigs Colleen’s memory of a mystery attendee at Leonard’s funeral she snaps into action. In the maddening company of her ornery co-worker Patti, she heads to Niagara Falls on a quest to find the truth behind the death. Amid the slot machines and grubby hotels, the pair stumble into the darker underworld of a faded tourist trap. What they find will lead straight to an episode from Colleen’s adolescence she thought she’d put firmly behind her. Bleakly madcap, with deadpan dialogue, Shelstad’s debut novel is a noir anti-thriller reminiscent of Twin Peaks and the work of Ottessa Moshfegh and early Kate Atkinson. He captures call-centre life, ramshackle tourist attractions, and suburbia with wit and sharp realism, and reveals the undercurrents of melancholy and the truly bizarre that can run beneath even the most seemingly mild-mannered lives.

Download or read book PORTRAITS OF MAGNOLIAS IN THE SHADOW OF ELVIS written by Milly Hockingheimer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PORTRAITS OF MAGNOLIAS In the Shadow of Elvis tells the story of a small Southern town in the 1950s as told through the lives of its teenagers. Among them was a group of girls known as The Twelve (the Magolias), one of whom, Margie King, looks back on this innocent time when most of the entertainment was self generated, and neighbors were friends who relied on each other and knew everyone else's business--although not everyone knew the mystery of the ruins of an antebellum mansion or what happened after a local lawyer became governor of the state. Offstage is Elvis Presley, who before he was famous was influencing the lives of the town's youth as his voice reached down into the Delta over the airwaves from Memphis and the teenagers sped up to Graceland to see what they could find out about the daily life of The King.

Download or read book Human Society written by Chris Garcia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR BOOK LOVERS ONLY I have a great best selling book just waiting to be discovered. It's call Human Society. By me Chris Garcia. A book about When I was in a foster home and the journey it took me to get to the Human Society a place ware KIDS get adopted the same way animals would,like when people take them to the Humane Society they would need to take some test to see if they are adopted able for society. I have Doctors doing the same test on kids. kids live in cages and hallway names like Confuse Inn,Clean Inn,and other Inns.The doctors choose what Inns. would best fit the child so they don't get into a fight with each other. It's like a prison to the kids that live there,They need to find a way out of this place. Going throw the hunted woods is a way. Little did I know my life would change this December. My parents were taken from me. I don't know why or why it had to happen to me. May be if I never went to the bathroom, I might of known.... Human Society, It's just like the humane society, but the opposite. If you find a kid wondering on the street, you must report him or her to the Human Society. They'll come get it day or night. It was around Christmas time, I was nine, little did I know my mom and dad was going to be taken from me. I don't know why they were taken or why it had to happen to me. Maybe if I never went to the bathroom, I would know. Well, my dad took me shopping for mom, we found an old bookstore and decided to try our luck there, she loved reading books. I found one and dad being dad didn't want to buy it because it's too much. I said it's for mom for Christmas. We went home and then out for dinner so we thought...................

Download or read book The Book of Luke written by Ted Bross and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of a young child, Luke, as he grows between the ages of 4 and 12. Each chapter represents a new year in Luke's life. While there is an underlying theme that focuses on soccer, the book really is about Luke's growth and development as he encounters situations and challenges. There is a different and important life lesson in each chapter that is age appropriate.

Download or read book The Day Jim Got Shot and Other Semi Truthful Stories written by Gary Tucker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-05-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While growing up, Gary Tucker and his brother Jim had numerous shared experiences and adventures in the idyllic setting of Hannibal, Missouri which is located along the Mississippi River. As Gary's daughters Suzi and Kim were growing up, he would frequently tell them about these escapades. The girls never seemed to tire of hearing them, even as adults. This book details those experiences including the day Jim was accidently shot by their uncle; how Jim was saved from sin several times on the way to the hospital; and how Gary almost got the coveted .22 rifle he always wanted as the result of the shooting.

Download or read book Call Me Iliad written by Hector M. Santos Velez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iliad, my main character who suffers from amnesia after being shot by a pervert, is now pursued by another. Toerch is his name a man who will go to any extreme to get his way and his sights are on Iliad. So far she' managed to best him at every encounter they've had. But with every set-back, he's found new ways of retaliating. The last incident was especially hurtful for Iliad because the man shot two of her friends. One of them was Diana's brother, a policeman from California visiting her. The other was Trixie, a friend, who in the ensuing death struggle managed to put them both in the river. The raging waters separate the struggling duo and Toerch is picked up by Mahogany, an acquaintance of his. She takes him to the nearest hospital, but when he realizes she's done, getting out of there becomes a priority. He devices a clever plan and with her help, he's gone long before the law discover his whereabouts. Every officer in Athens wants to get their hands on Toerch, as does Iliad.