Download or read book My Mom and Dad on the South Coast of Big Sur written by Stanley Harlan and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look back in time at Big Sur and the surrounding areas through the eyes of one family. A journey as told by Stan Harlan of his mom and dad, and enjoyed by all as a timeless tale filled with adventure of those who settled in the expanses of the most beautiful coastline in America.Stan Harlan, the youngest of 3 brothers of George and Esther Harlan, was born in San Jose California on November 11, 1927. As with his two older brothers, their mother, Esther, left the coastal family ranch near Lucia on the Big Sur coast, when she was within a week of giving birth, to be with her mother, and the family doctor in Campbell, California.The return trip to the coastal ranch came a week after Stan's birth. On the final leg of the trip, over the narrow mountain trails, he was placed in a five-gallon kerosene can, which had one side cut out and lined with blankets, then placed and tied on the pack saddle of George's favorite mule, Big Jack. This is how Stan arrived at the family ranch at Lopez Point, as did his brothers before him. The Big Sur area has been his home for all those years and he enjoys sharing his stories, which happens to offer unique historical insight to the areas last 100 years.
Download or read book My Mom and Dad on the Coast South of Big Sur written by Stanley Harlan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a look back in time at Big Sur and the surrounding areas through the eyes of one family. A journey as told by Stan Harlan of his mom and dad, and enjoyed by all as a timeless tale filled with adventure of those who settled in the expanses of the most beautiful coastline in America.Stan Harlan, the youngest of 3 brothers of George and Esther Harlan, was born in San Jose California on November 11, 1927. As with his two older brothers, their mother, Esther, left the coastal family ranch near Lucia on the Big Sur coast, when she was within a week of giving birth, to be with her mother, and the family doctor in Campbell, California.The return trip to the coastal ranch came a week after Stan's birth. On the final leg of the trip, over the narrow mountain trails, he was placed in a five-gallon kerosene can, which had one side cut out and lined with blankets, then placed and tied on the pack saddle of George's favorite mule, Big Jack. This is how Stan arrived at the family ranch at Lopez Point, as did his brothers before him.The Big Sur area has been his home for all those years and he enjoys sharing his stories, which happens to offer unique historical insight to the areas last 100 years.
Download or read book The Hermits of Big Sur written by Paula Huston and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between World War II and Vatican II, as Italy struggled to rebuild after decades of Mussolini’s fascism, an eleventh-century order of contemplative monks in the Apennines were urged by Thomas Merton to found a daughter house on the rugged coast of California. A brilliant but world-weary ex-Jesuit, who had recently withdrawn from a high-intensity public life to go into reclusion at the ancient Sacro Eremo of Camaldoli, was tapped for the job. Based on notes kept for over sixty years by an early American novice at New Camaldoli Hermitage, The Hermits of Big Sur tellsthe compelling story of what unfolds within this small and idealistic community when medievalism must finally come to terms with modernism. It traces the call toward fuga mundi in the young seekers who arrive to try their vocations, only to discover that the monastic life requires much more of them than a bare desire for solitude. And it describes the miraculous transformation that sometimes occurs in individual monks after decades of lectio divina, silent meditation, liturgical faithfulness, and the communal bonds they have formed through the practice of the “privilege of love.”
Download or read book Dreaming in Color written by Kaffe Fassett and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, the renowned visual artist chronicles his life and career, as well as what is important to him and what inspires his art. Kaffe Fassett has led an extraordinary life and is a captivating storyteller with a vivid memory. Born in 1937, he spent much of his youth in Big Sur, California, where his parents bought a cabin from Orson Welles and transformed it into the world-famous Nepenthe restaurant, a gathering place for artists and bohemians. After attending a boarding school run by the disciples of Krishnamurti, an Indian guru, he studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, then traveled to England, where he made his home. After an inspiring trip to Inverness, Scotland, Fassett began designing knitwear for Bill Gibb, and then the Missonis, Vogue magazine, and private clients like Lauren Bacall and Barbra Streisand, and, in the process, revolutionized the handknitting world with his explosive use of color. Further explorations led him to needlepoint, mosaics, rugmaking, tapestries, yarn and fabric design, costume and set design, and quilting. Now in his seventies, Fassett continues to produce new work and to travel worldwide to teach and lecture. In this intimate autobiography, Fassett shares rich, detailed stories about his lifelong creative journey as well as hundreds of glorious photos taken along the way. Praise for Dreaming in Color “Lavishly illustrated with photographs from his life and work and dishing on everyone from Dustin Hoffman to Princess Margaret, Dreaming in Color describes a charmed life filled with creativity, big personalities, travels, and not a little serendipity.” —Vogue Knitting “A feast for the eyes.” —Shelf-Awareness “[Fassett] is a legend in the knitting world for his exquisitely colorful, highly patterned designs. . . . Kaffe Fassett is to color what Julia Child was to French cooking.” —Knitter’s Review
Download or read book Breathers written by S.G. Browne and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For zombie aficionados everywhere, a hilarious debut novel about life (and love) after death. Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere. Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.
Download or read book 100 Places That Can Change Your Child s Life written by Keith Bellows and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids who learn to travel will travel to learn. National Geographic Traveler Editor Keith Bellows sends you and your children globetrotting for life-changing vacations that will expand their horizons and shape their perspectives. What you won’t find inside: predictable itineraries and lists of landmarks and events. Instead, you’ll get evocative, slice-of-life experiences and age-appropriate ideas that illuminate place and culture. Each chapter of 100 Places That Can Change Your Child’s Life plumbs the heart of a special place—from the Acropolis to Machu Picchu to the Grand Canyon—all from the perspective of insiders who see destinations through a child’s eyes. You’ll meet actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy, who tours the suqs of Marrakech with his seven-year-old son; photographer Annie Griffiths, who shares the miraculous migration to Mexico of the monarch butterflies; Tom Ritchie, who has guided countless children and parents to Antarctica for more than 30 years; the waterman who knows where to see the ponies of Assateague in the true wild; and countless others who are cultural treasures, great storytellers, and keepers of a sense of place. Packed with ideas to supplement the travel experience—foods, music, films, and carefully curated lists of kid-friendly activities and places to eat and stay—this inspiring book is the perfect trip planner to excite children about culture and the unique magic the world has to offer.
Download or read book Lipstick Jihad written by Azadeh Moaveni and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was a California girl who practiced yoga and listened to Madonna. For years, she ignored the tense standoff between her two cultures. But college magnified the clash between Iran and America, and after graduating, she moved to Iran as a journalist. This is the story of her search for identity, between two cultures cleaved apart by a violent history. It is also the story of Iran, a restive land lost in the twilight of its revolution. Moaveni's homecoming falls in the heady days of the country's reform movement, when young people demonstrated in the streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end. In these tumultuous times, she struggles to build a life in a dark country, wholly unlike the luminous, saffron and turquoise-tinted Iran of her imagination. As she leads us through the drug-soaked, underground parties of Tehran, into the hedonistic lives of young people desperate for change, Moaveni paints a rare portrait of Iran's rebellious next generation. The landscape of her Tehran -- ski slopes, fashion shows, malls and cafes -- is populated by a cast of young people whose exuberance and despair brings the modern reality of Iran to vivid life.
Download or read book 20 Short Stories written by Jerry Priebe and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories are fun. You can read one, put the book down, leave it untouched for an hour or two, and then return for another story. I hope you find some humor within these pages: nothing like a good laugh, maybe even a short snicker. You won't find a lot of drama in the stories, but I think you will be taken along on a pleasant journey from story to story.
Download or read book Sex Mom and God written by Frank Schaeffer and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A penetrating analysis of political extremism, with a moving and at times hilarious account of growing up in one of the Christian right's most influential families. Few writers command Frank Schaeffer's intimate understanding of right-wing radicalism, and even fewer are able to share their insight as entertainingly and with as much moral weight as he has in Sex, Mom, and God."--Max Blumenthal, author of Republican Gomorrah "Mom was a much nicer person than her God. There are many biblical regulations about everything from beard-trimming to menstruating. Mom worked diligently to recast her personal-hygiene-obsessed God in the best light." Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, bestselling author Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs and the paranoid fantasies of the "right-wing echo chamber" are really all about. Here's a hint: sex. The unforgettable central character in Sex, Mom, and God is the author's far-from-prudish evangelical mother, Edith, who sweetly but bizarrely provides startling juxtapositions of the religious and the sensual thoughout Schaeffer's childhood. She was, says Frank Schaeffer, "the greatest illustration of the Divine beauty of Paradox I've encountered . . . a fundamentalist living a double life as a lover of beauty who broke all her own judgmental rules in favor of creativity." Charlotte Gordon, the award-winning author of Mistress Bradstreet, calls Sex, Mom, and God "a tour de force . . . Sarah Palin, 'The Family,' Anne Hutchinson, adultery, abortion, homophobia, Uganda, Ronald Reagan, B. B. King, Billy Graham, Hugh Hefner -- it's all here. This is the kind of book I did not want to end."
Download or read book These Are My Flowers written by Nancy Hopkins and published by Heidi Hopkins. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 101 Hikes in Northern California written by Matt Heid and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Hikes in Northern California by Matt Heid benefits readers by narrowing down the nearly infinite options for hiking in Northern California to the very best of the best adventures. It is distinct from other similar guidebooks in that it covers the northern two-thirds of the state, including nearly the entirety of the Sierra Nevada south to Kings Canyon National Park and the entire Big Sur region along the coast south to Silver Peak Wilderness. It also provides significant geographic diversity; hikes are spread out across the entire region. No matter where you are in northern California, you can find a hike in the book within a short drive. The guide is unique in the amount of natural history information it provides, especially the geologic stories of the featured destinations. It provides not just the essential directions for completing a hike, it enhances the experience by telling the story of how the landscape came to be the way it is.
Download or read book Big Sur written by Jeff Norman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Sur is a river and a region on California's Central Coast. Extending for 75 miles along the Pacific shore, from south of Carmel to north of San Simeon, the Big Sur Coast is defined by the backdrop of the rugged Santa Lucia Mountains as they abruptly descend to meet the sea. For millennia the home of native people, Americans and Europeans began to settle Big Sur country even before California became a state. This book combines outstanding photographs from 40 collections, ranging from family albums to institutional archives.
Download or read book Daddy Devos Today written by John Michieli and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michieli offers advice to men who struggle with how to be the spiritual leader of their homes, who want the respect of their family, and want an easy way to have a more consistent OdevotionalO life.
Download or read book Son of a Coal Miner s Daughter written by William Spencer Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Bill Spencer Miller takes us on his journey of expansion and personal growth through his varied experiences as a farm boy in Brown County, Indiana to a Foreign Service Reserve Officer with the Peace Corps, a volunteer in Indonesia and Thailand, a Peace Corps director in the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Philippines. He went from attending a one-room school in Beanblossom, Indiana to Franklin College, to Eastern Illinois University where earned degrees in Biology, Kinesiology, and Sports, giving him a solid foundation to make his dreams come true. We learn about living in cultures different from our own as he shares his interactions living with and teaching the people of Indonesia and Thailand. Bill, always active, shares stories of playing basketball at the height of Hoosier Mania. His life-long love of running culminated in his participating in several triathlons, until a serious illness took him down, but not out of a productive life. He tells us of returning to the United States after ten years abroad and building a new life in Brown County with his wife and young family. We will learn about his new career paths and his work on the Deam Wilderness Project and his fight for landowners private property rights. Bill Millers experiences give voice to a life that has spanned (so far) a world that was still recovering from the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the assassinations of prominent leaders in our country, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, to our present day struggles around the globe.
Download or read book My Nepenthe written by Romney Steele and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reflects on the history of her family's California restaurant, Nepenthe, and her experiences growing up there; and provides eighty-five recipes and photographs.
Download or read book Weep With One Eye written by J Waldo Sacks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I like to wake up next to him.” That afternoon at the restaurant, Peggy’s words shattered with finality, any denial routine Rollie had been entertaining about his wife’s goings-on and her absences while he was at work and running back and forth from Vegas... Rollie thought they had found happiness in the marriage that had some turbulent beginnings. They had hung on and seemed to have put together the best years of the relationship. Then at 38; the lump --and nothing was the same ... He couldn’t imagine life without Peggy. It was unraveling fast. He didn’t seem to know a damn thing anymore. Where did it go wrong, he asked everyone who’d listen? How will he pick up the pieces of his life? In Weep With One Eye the intriguing answers await, and from places Rollie would never have imagined...
