Hospice is often misunderstood. We humans do not like to think about our own deaths, or those of people we love. People who work in this medical specialty are characterized by some as angels performing super-human ministrations, and by others as macabre creatures who wish to hasten their patients’ deaths. But the reality of hospice work is complex, poignant, challenging, fulfilling, and at times, even humorous. As told by one who worked for three decades in this field, this collection of e...

Lessons from Another Life, is not like any other time-travel or deja vu romance novel. It is based on an actual online relationship, knowing what he shared with me through our conversations, learning more from his wife, after his death, and a fictionalized life together, in memory of a denied destiny.Someone once wrote that reality and fiction are two different things, they do not touch or cross. As a writer, Rob, you were the one who pulled me into sleep, talking to me, showing me...

Michael Harris, standing at his loft window looking down on I35 in Dallas known to Dallasites as Stemmons, watching the red and white lights moving below him as he lifts his glass, taking a sip of his Tennessee blend savoring it's flavor and the cold ice against his lips. Michael is plotting a takeover of Farmers Insurance Company, to rocket him to the financial level he belongs by using Surette, Jason's administrative executive, knowing she is in love with him, Michael decides to woo Sure...

The love between two women is tragicly interrupted by more powerful forces than mere hatred.

Tiny Trails is a series of rhyming choose your own adventure stories for children. Each is pointedly written as both an educational lesson and interactive adventure. You can go on a hunt for a Gooey Duck Hunt with Brayden, or help Gabby find a way to keep her trees warm in the winter, or perhaps meet Tails and find out why he likes toothpaste. Dozens of different paths to take for each story. Read the same book over and over again and discover something new each time.

FINDING A PLACE IN THE NATURAL WORLD AS A HUNTRESSAfter thirty years cultivating fruits and vegetables, raising children, and teaching literature, Deborah Lee Luskin stepped out of her garden and into the forest. At sixty, it was time to age fiercely, overcome her suburban fear of getting lost in the woods and her urban reliance on street signs to know where she was. She wanted to forge her own path through the forest by following the deer. A dedicated locavore, Lu...

Could there be two people more different? It's 1964, and Rose Mayer is recently widowed, a Democrat, and Jewish. When she meets Percy Mendell, a born and bred Vermonter who has never married and never voted for a Democrat, they clash before a surprising romance springs up. At age 64, they both must employ their humor, wit and compassion to even consider the other. Set against the backdrop of Vermont's changing season and shifting political landscape, Into the Wilderness is both a ...

Terrible events are very hard to deal with and those who go through a trauma often feel permanently changed by it. Grief, numbness, anger, anxiety and shame are all very common emotional reactions to traumatic incidents such as an accident or death of a loved one, and ongoing traumatic events such as domestic abuse.How we deal with the aftermath of trauma and our own emotional response can determine how quickly we are able to 'move on' and get back to 'normality' once more. An inte...

FINDING A PLACE IN THE NATURAL WORLD AS A HUNTRESSAfter thirty years cultivating fruits and vegetables, raising children, and teaching literature, Deborah Lee Luskin stepped out of her garden and into the forest. At sixty, it was time to age fiercely, overcome her suburban fear of getting lost in the woods and her urban reliance on street signs to know where she was. She wanted to forge her own path through the forest by following the deer. A dedicated locavore, Lu...

Dysfunction abounds in America in so many ways, from continuous turbulent change in the business environment, to a US federal government polarized by an inability to compromise and fulfill its historic missions, to personal levels where even deeper and darker levels of dysfunction reside within our colleagues, families, friends, and ourselves. Can any of us survive and thrive against such a backdrop of unsettledness and anxiety? Deborah Lee James wants to help us try.As th...

The definitive Handbook of Trauma-Transformative Practice brings together the work of leading international trauma experts to provide a detailed overview of trauma-informed practice and intervention: its history, the latest frameworks for practice and an inspiring vision for future trauma-transformative practice.The Handbook is interdisciplinary, incorporating trauma research, interpersonal neuroscience, the historical and continuing experiences of victims and survivors, and insigh...

As the 23rd Secretary and the "CEO" of the male-dominated U.S. Air Force (only the second woman to lead a U.S. military service), Secretary Deborah Lee James led a force of 660,000 people and managed a $139 billion budget—larger than the GDP of more than 120 countries. In the midst of unprecedented political dysfunction in Washington, she faced down enormous challenges, including preparing military women and men to fight terror in the Middle East, combatting sexual assault in the military,...