Download or read book Stepdads Showing Up Showing Out written by SEDERICK C. RICE PH.D and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: StepDads, Showing Up & Showing Out is a humorous and interesting view of Dr. Rice’s growth, development, perspectives, and experiences as a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD). Rice’s first person perspective presents learning curves and experiences that hopefully provides support, wisdom, and encouragement to those MEN, (and the WOMEN who love and adore them), who have taken on the Difficult, Stressful, Mind-Blowing, Frustrating, Awesome, Honorable, Humbling, Rewarding, Enriching, and Blessed opportunity to be a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD). Rice describes how he had to grow in Spirituality, Patience, Self-Reflection, Understanding, Mental Health Awareness, Love Languages, Wisdom, and Financial Creativity. Rice’s goal is to Encourage, Equip, Strengthen, and Empower those MEN (and the WOMEN who love and adore them), to fully embrace the Challenges, Responsibilities, Honor, and Blessings associated with being a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD). The Ultimate Challenge, as a STEPFATHER (STEPDAD), is to Always Show Up! & Show Out! God is Watching!

Download or read book The Smart Stepdad written by Ron L. Deal and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While resources abound for stepmothers, stepfathers are often left to travel a difficult road without clear directions. Ron Deal offers advice for men navigating the stepfamily minefield, including how to connect with stepchildren, being a godly role model, how to discipline, dealing with the biological dad, and keeping the bond strong with one's new spouse. He gives perspective on what the kids are going through and why things don't work the same as in a biological family. The Smart Stepdad provides essential guidelines to help stepfathers not only survive but succeed as both dad and husband.

Download or read book Working It with Her Stepdad written by A.D. Barnes and published by Steemies. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping her stepdad get in shape...When Haylee's mom tells her stepdad that he should consider joining Haylee for a jog, he claims he's in good shape for his age. But then next morning, he's there bright and early to join her for a run. It starts out with him out of breath, but by the end, they're both panting.

Download or read book A Date for the Regatta written by L.P. Dover and published by Books by L.P. Dover, LLC. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Heidi McLaughlin and L.P. Dover come together for a sexy new series that delivers romance for every season! Hoist the main sail and ready the bow thruster, this ship is going to be rocking. London Bauer hates her job. Working with the New England elite, she’s used to yacht club snobs glaring down their noses at her as she serves them dinner and caters to their extravagant whims. Thankfully, they tip well and London needs every cent she can get. One shift goes from bad to worse when Max Richmond saunters in. As if she needed another reminder why she should never mingle with the sailors, he has the audacity to ignore her. London wasn’t looking to sail off into the sunset with him after the night they spent together, but acknowledging her would have been common decency. She follows Max into the bathroom, fully intending to give him a piece of her mind. Instead, she finds herself getting wonderfully reacquainted with his drive shaft. Now, Max is insistent that London join him at the Kingstown Regatta. Surrounded by his uppity friends and family, London fears the divide between their lives is too deep for any vessel to sail. While she’s ready to weigh anchor and move on, Max is manning his helm and prepared to show her they can weather the roughest of seas... together. Climb aboard and wax the deck, the motion of this ocean will leave you weak in the knees.

Download or read book A Two Spirit Journey written by Ma-Nee Chacaby and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby’s story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.

Download or read book The Hands that Crafted the Bomb written by Josh Fernandez and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities” after starting an antifascist club on campus. As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects on a life lived in protest of the status quo, swept up in chaos and rage, from his childhood in Boston dealing with a mentally ill father and a new family to growing up in Davis, California, in the basement shows of the early '90s when Nazi boneheads proliferated the music scene, looking for heads to crack. His crew’s first attempts at an antifascist group fall short when a member dies in a knife fight. A born antiauthoritarian, filled with an untamable rage, Fernandez rails against the system and aggressively chooses the path of most resistance. This leads to long spates of living in his car, strung out on drugs, and robbing the whiteboys coming home from the clubs at night. Fernandez eventually realizes that his rage needs an outlet and finds relief for his existential dread in the form of running. And fighting Nazis. Fernandez cobbles together a life for himself as a writing professor, a facilitator of a self-defense collective, a boots-on-the-ground participant in Antifa work, and a proud father of two children he unapologetically raises to question authority. But his parents and academia seem to think Fernandez is failing miserably, putting his children and his students at risk, and they treat Fernandez like he’s a time bomb, ready to explode at any moment. They may have a point.

Download or read book Heathen written by Richard Baud and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born into a very poor family to a mother who would marry three times and to a father who was an alcholic. My two older brothers were in and out of jail/prison from the ages of 16. I was a stupid teenager making a series of foolish decisions that could have killed me. I started working in retail at the age of 16 as a stockboy whose duties included sweeping floors and cleaning bathrooms. I went to work for Walmart, where I would become the Store Manager of four different stores over a span of 30 years. My last store had sales of over 100 Million dollars a year. I struggled with being fat my entire adult life peaking at 363 pounds. I accepted Jesus as my Savior on 12-15-1996 at the age of 35. Since being Saved my life has followed a pattern, first I follow my own path then God nudges me down the correct path and then I start the process all over again.

Download or read book Surviving the Mountain written by Freddie Avila and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Surviving the Mountain is based on my life and how I survived through many near-death experiences. From my beginning to being separated from my biological father as a baby to short memories of living in East Los Angeles and moving to El Monte at the age of six. El Monte, a Spanish word translated in English means The Mountain. El Monte is located in the San Gabriel Valley which is fifteen minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Mountain or El Monte is a flat city in between two rivers, The Rio Hondo and San Gabriel Rivers. It is the end of the famed Santa Fe Trail that served as America's first commercial highway established in 1822. When you enter the city, there are signs that say, "Welcome to Friendly El Monte," but this was not my experience from the city. It has a south and a north part to it. The city was huge in an area of 9.65 square miles. Within the city's borders was where I spent a great portion of my life. I survived many trials and tribulations, and I have seen the fall of many of my brothers and sisters who did not survive this city. Street gangs, drugs, and violence corrupted my world. The casualties have devastated my people and my culture. God Brought me through this to share my story, believing that we as a people no longer have to surviving this life, but to live. We can build a new future filled with peace and prosperity as God's love and presence preserved me throughout my life. I know He can help us; all we have to do is ask Him and He will answer Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."

Download or read book The Before Person written by Diane Parks and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We don’t love our children—we fall in love with them. I never realized that having a child was so fulfilling. Our son was a blast, an avid reader and played soccer, baseball, and ice hockey. He was named the best all-around child in the fifth grade (academically, athletic, and citizenship). His father and I cried while watching him received the trophy. So by reading my story, you will learn about mental illness and how our love never wavered. He was the best thing that ever happened to us. Perhaps my story can help you. I had one son, who was the joy of my life. He passed away in 2006, and this book is dedicated to him. Did you ever want to know about mental illness up close? This book will shock and surprise you with the ins and outs of a private world I had to enter. My son was diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression. We tried like hell to get him proper care and treatment but to no avail. Although some parts are more difficult to read than others, I hope you enjoy my book. And maybe this book will help you or someone you know has a similar situation.

Download or read book I Can Cer Vive written by Monya Williams and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I CAN-cer Vive: Live Free, Be Happy shares the inspiring story of Monya Williams, a woman of indefatigable optimism, who survived sexual, physical, and mental abuse as a child. Living with the wounds and the attendant loss of her childhood innocence, she faced struggles in her relationships and bouts of deep depression in later years. Then, receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer and permanent partial facial paralysis, she endured more than thirty surgeries over a six-year span. In the pages of I CAN-cer Vive: Live Free, Be Happy, she tells her story for the first time. This unflinchingly candid narrative provides the details of a traumatic journey and its daily struggles that end, not in despair and surrender, but in true happiness and joy. This book reveals how one woman who chose to change the plot of her lifes story from a horrific once upon a time beginning to an inspiring happily ever after ending.

Download or read book Army Life written by Darryl Jefferson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darryl Jefferson grew up with the sole ambition of becoming a US Army soldier. Despite many people advising against it, he ultimately fulfilled his goal and enlisted in the Army while the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were raging. He soon discovered that this experience was much different than he had anticipated, but in the process, he would learn and discover much about himself, the real world, and the human condition. This is his story.

Download or read book The Farmer s Daughter First time Feminization with Loving Stepdad written by Lilly Lustwood and published by Brightlucky Press. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No! You’re a man! You have to plow the field, milk the cow, and carry these stacks of hay!” This is an illustrated romance novella, it includes beautiful images inside. Enjoy! She hated me… I reminded her of the man who left her for a younger woman… but she was my mother. All I could do was run to him. The man who loved me unconditionally and raised me as his own. The man who showed me what it was to truly be alive. Note: This story contains transgender love, crossdresser and crossdressing, sissification and feminisation, sissy femboy romance, male to female first time feminization, transgender romance, and first time with a transgender woman tropes. Some real places and people were referenced but the story is a work of fiction. The cover image is from Brightlucky Press.

Download or read book The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians written by James Roots and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The silent film era featured some of the most revered names of on-screen comic performance, from Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Laurel & Hardy. Besides these giants of cinema, however, there are other silent era performers—both leading actors and supporting players—who left an enduring legacy of laughter. In The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians, James Roots ranks the greatest performers based on a scorecard that measures each comic’s humor, timelessness, originality, and teamwork. Far more than just a listing, this is an idiosyncratic and entertaining review of the men and women who created the golden age of comedy. As a critic and deaf viewer, Roots brings a truly unique perspective to the evaluation of these performers and their work. He has viewed thousands of silent comedies and offers some assessments that run contrary to the standard list of performers. While many obvious names are placed in the top echelon, the author also champions performers who have been neglected, in part because their work has not been as visible. Each entry includes a filmography a scorecard an evaluation of the artist’s overall work an assessment of representative films DVD availability With the increased availability of films on DVD, as well as Internet access, more and more silent performers are being discovered by film fans. Supplemented by an appendix of comedians who missed the cut, as well as an annotated bibliography, The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians will be an invaluable resource to anyone wanting to know more about the brilliant entertainers of the silent era.

Download or read book The Reason written by Lacey Sturm and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day Lacey Sturm planned to kill herself was the day her grandmother forced her to go to church, a place Lacey thought was filled with hypocrites, fakers, and simpletons. The screaming match she had with her grandmother was the reason she went to church. What she found there was the Reason she is alive today. With raw vulnerability, this hard rock princess tells her own story of physical abuse, drug use, suicide attempts, and more--and her ultimate salvation. She asks the hard questions so many young people are asking--Why am I here? Why am I empty? Why should I go on living?--showing readers that beyond the temporary highs and the soul-crushing lows there is a reason they exist and a purpose for their lives. She not only gives readers a peek down the rocky path that led her to become a vocalist in a popular hardcore band, but she shows them that the same God is guiding their steps today.

Download or read book No More Tears Show Your Scars written by Nita Washington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never be ashamed of who you use to be. Your scars are just your testimony! Star had to go through the storm just to know that all she needed was faith!

Download or read book On the Mason Dixon Line written by Billie Travalini and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 52 of the best poems, stories, memories, novel excerpts, and creative non-fiction by writers who have called the tiny state of Delaware their home.

Download or read book Desired by Her Stepdad written by A.D. Barnes and published by Steemies. This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though he's my stepdad, I call him Coach. He's the coach of my soccer team and so even though I'm eighteen, he still has the power to cut me off from the sport I love. So I have to follow his rules. That means no boys. I hated him for that, until I realized that no boys means I have room for a man.