Download or read book Ode to the Outhouse written by Roger Welsch and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ode to the Outhouse is a fun, humorous look at privies with amusing outhouse postcards. Includes color photos of visually interesting outhouses, and cartoons and drawings.
Download or read book Toe Holds in the Light written by Christine Van Brunt and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Toe Holds in the Light, Christine Van Brunt connects readers to the breathtaking beauty that is everywhere. Through her poetry, Christine is able to show that the things that slow us down are gifts and that slowing down is a gift in itself. These poems seek to give authentic voice to things people may seldom speak of or may not know how to speak of. They seek to validate human emotions; to remove unproductive, unnecessary, and undeserved shame and guilt; to validate souls striving to love and believe in themselves; to validate souls contending with controlling others who-in the name of love-would manipulate them and wall them in according to their own predefinitions. 'Christine Van Brunt is that rare kind of poet who paints unforgettable pictures with words that allow you to see your relationships, your everyday tasks, and Mother Nature in an entirely new light. Reading her poetry reawakens you to the wonders of being alive and leaves you feeling more visible and validated as a human being.' Terry Jean Taylor, President Your Recipe For Living Coach, LLC 'Permeated by thoughtful observation and punctuated with love, Toe Holds ponders-and conjoins-the mundane and profound elements of a life well lived. Here is the work of a muse whose mastery provides access for all.' John T. Noble Ph.D. (cand.) Hebrew Bible Harvard University
Download or read book High Mileage Hearts written by Mile High Mileage Hearts Writers' Group and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Southern Indiana writers share their experiences, faith and chuckles in this collection of memories, poems and short stories.
Download or read book Here on the Coast written by Howard White and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter where people live on the BC coast, says Howard White, they have certain shared experiences: frustration with rain and ferries, familiarity with gumboots, bumbershoots, seagull droppings and barnacles in the wrong places. But each little community clings to its own sense of uniqueness and considers itself the true West Coast. As a case in point, White offers fifty funny sketches of life as he has come to know it in sixty-odd years of living along that hundred-mile stretch of monsoon-prone shoreline ironically known as the Sunshine Coast. Included is what must be one of the most admiring testaments ever written about the virtues of the old-time outhouse; fond remembrances of saltwater fishing when a bad day meant you didn’t hook something in twenty minutes; and explorers who stooped to naming islands after favourite racehorses. We also meet a “bouquet of characters,” including a lyrical logger known as Pete the Poet; a diabolical seagoing remittance man; the saintly Quaker philosopher Hubert Evans and White’s barrier-busting Aunt Jean who taught him the advantages of “scientifically enlarging the truth.” Along with accounts of waste disposal wars and wry observations on modern technology, Here On the Coast offers a West Coast counterpart to such favourites as Letters From Wingfield Farm and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.
Download or read book Where in the Hell is Sourdough written by Josef Chmielowski and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever eat a rabbit turd? Ever urinate on your brother's head? Ever use an outhouse at fifty below? Josef Chmielowski has. Not only that, but this sourdough from Sourdough has survived countless other entertaining situations, many of which are retold in this vivacious volume. Josef's collection of humorous short stories successfully captures the essence of daily routine on an Alaskan homestead, and investigates the undeniable link between mischief, males, and mayhem.
Download or read book Freedom in an Outhouse written by Julie Mouzakis and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom in an Outhouse is a compilation of poetry written over a 10 year span. The variety is an example of the dynamics and growth of the human spirit. There are flowing strands of words within these pages that almost everyone can relate to. My wish for the reader is that their minds are open to entertaining the notion of full on mind expansion. A poem may seem literal, but mine, rarely (if ever) are. I am in touch with my muse and we work together in a fluid synchrocity.
Download or read book The Seventy Thousand Dollar Outhouse written by Donald D Yackel and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book by Donald D. Yackel continues the format and organization of his first, The Idling Bulldozer and Other Paddling Adventures. However, unlike that offering, this one starts with a personal reflection on the author's connection to boats and the water. Subsequent chapters describe paddling trips in Canada, Costa Rica, Florida, and Mexico. While each chapter provides a glimpse into part of the world most readers will never visit, the author's vivid descriptions will take you there. As one reviewer put it: "I am an armchair adventurer. I loved the descriptions of the various areas in the U.S. and Canada...the terrain, the wildlife...places I will never see...places most people will never see or experience. The challenges of paddling in various places and conditions, the hardships, the challenges and the rewards make for a great and interesting read." A second reviewer writes: "Even if you are not a paddling enthusiast, the stories are fun! Don writes in a conversational tone...it's like you're sitting next to him while he tells his stories." Each tale is a memoir of what the author experienced on the adventure: what he saw, what he did, how it felt, whom he traveled with, and the dangers and rewards experienced. Whether you are a veteran kayaker, a rank beginner, or have never been in a boat before, you can find something to relate to in this book.
Download or read book One More Rhyme for the Road written by Sue A. McLaughlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wish Me Tomorrow I know there’s many things you wish for me— Of course, you wish for me no sorrow; And you desire for me joy and prosperity. But most of all, please wish me tomorrow.
Download or read book Barnyard Confidential written by Melinda Keefe and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2012-08-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A light-hearted A-to-Z encyclopedia of farm lore, Barnyard Confidential covers everything you need to know about living in the country, from courting to dealing with manure, root picking to rat catching, winter chores to tractor restoration, hay mows to outhouses—anything and everything related to farm life. Entries from well-known country authors like E. B. White, Gwen Petersen, Roger Welsch, and Patricia Penton Leimbach range from funny definitions to full stories and are illustrated throughout with a charming mix of fun, nostalgic, black-and-white photos and illustrations. These stories are both humorous and practical and will remind you why you often have a love-hate relationship with rural living. Before you move to the country (or even if you already live there), learn all the secrets to success from Barnyard Confidential. Featured authors include the following:Eric Sloane, Roger Welsch, Gwen Petersen, Ben Logan, Jim Heynen, Bob Artley, Marjorie Myers Douglas, Hamlin Garland, E. B. White, Jerry Stelmok, Louis Bromfield, Bob Becker, William Hazlett Upson, Patricia Penton Leimbach, Jerry L. Twedt, Michael Perry, Willa Cather, Jerry Apps, Josh Billings, Michael Dregni, Jared Van Wagenen Jr., Hugh Orchard, Dorothy Canfield, Virginia Bell Dabney, Tom Anderson, Ronald Jager, Margret Aldrich, Bill Vossler, and Gordon Green.
Download or read book Lyrical Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crunching Gravel written by Robert Peters and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No nostalgic tale of the good old days, Robert Peters’s recollections of his adolescence vividly evoke the Depression on a hardscrabble farm near Eagle River: Dad driving the Vilas County Relief truck, Lars the Swede freezing to death on his porch, the embarassment of graduation in a suit from welfare. The hard efforts to put fish and potatoes and blueberries on the table are punctuated by occasional pleasures: the Memorial Day celebration, swimming at Perch Lake, the county fair with Mother’s prizes for jam and the exotic delights of the midway. Peters’s clear-eyed memoir reveals a poet’s eye for rich and stark detail even as a boy of twelve. “Peters misses nothing, from the details of the town’s Fourth of July celebration to the cause and effect of a young cousin’s suicide to the calibrations of racism toward Indians that was so acceptable then. It is a fascinating, unsentimental look at a piece of our past.”—Margaret E. Guthrie, New York Times Book Review “It’s unlikely that any other contemporary poet and scholar as distinguished has risen from quite so humble beginnings as Robert Peters. Born and raised by semiliterate parents on a subsistence farm in northeastern Wisconsin, Peters lived harrowingly close to the eventual stuff of his poetry—the dependency of humans on animal lives, the inexplicable and ordinary heroism and baseness of people facing extreme conditions, the urgency of physical desire. . . . Sterling childhood memoirs.”—Booklist “Robert Peters has written a memoir exemplary because he insists on the specific, on the personal and the local. It is also enormously satisfying to read, and it is among the most authentic accounts of childhood and youth I know—a Wisconsin David Copperfield!”—Thom Gunn
Download or read book Cars Galore written by Peter Stein and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cars of all shapes, colors, and sizes--including an igloo ice-fueled polar car and an eco-friendly car that runs on air--are presented in illustrations and rhyme.
Download or read book Home Sweet Home written by Zachary Chastain and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In rough frontier cabins, tidy farmhouses, and elegant townhouses, Americans in the 1800s were dedicated to living as well and as comfortably as their circumstances allowed. The American home was a sacred institution, the seat of family life where the patriarch ruled with Mother at his side as guardian of the home, and the children were raised with strict discipline and strong values. Changes in taste and fashion, improvements in technology (indoor plumbing and a host of new labor-saving devices), and social change transformed home and family life in the 1800s, as opportunities for leisure activities and commercially produced consumer goods came within reach of the average American. But the strong American tradition of the sanctity of the home, consumerism, and the importance of a happy family life has its roots in the homes of nineteenth-century Americans.
Download or read book Outhouse Humor written by Billy Edd Wheeler and published by August House Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jokes, stories, and songs that give you a peek through the crescent-shaped cut-out on the outhouse door. A nostalgic look at the humblest, most universal fixture on the landscape of the American past -- by the composer of the cult hit, Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back.
Download or read book The Poem I Turn To written by Jason Shinder and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of classic and modern poetry features works selected and read by celebrated American movie actors and directors.
Download or read book Baxter s Explore the Book written by J. Sidlow Baxter and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Book is not a commentary with verse-by-verse annotations. Neither is it just a series of analyses and outlines. Rather, it is a complete Bible survey course. No one can finish this series of studies and remain unchanged. The reader will receive lifelong benefit and be enriched by these practical and understandable studies. Exposition, commentary, and practical application of the meaning and message of the Bible will be found throughout this giant volume. Bible students without any background in Bible study will find this book of immense help as will those who have spent much time studying the Scriptures, including pastors and teachers. Explore the Book is the result and culmination of a lifetime of dedicated Bible study and exposition on the part of Dr. Baxter. It shows throughout a deep awareness and appreciation of the grand themes of the gospel, as found from the opening book of the Bible through Revelation.
Download or read book Outhouses written by Holly Bollinger and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the history of and musings about that most fundamental of structures.
