Don’t Waste Your Pretty is the much-anticipated dating and relationships manifesto from author, life coach and award-winning blogger Demetria L. Lucas. Demetria has interviewed thousands of men, advised hundreds of clients, and answered more than 38,000 dating and relationship queries on her popular Ask.Fm page, where real women submit anonymous questions and receive professional advice — for free! Demetria’s latest advice guide is a compilation of popular questions asked by clients and re...

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to canning food at home, and includes information on preserving, pickling, dehydration, and jelly-making. Written in clear, plain language and full of handy tips and step-by-step instructions, this text will be of considerable utility to anyone with an interest in home canning. It would make for a great addition to collections of related literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Home Canning is Fun', 'Equipment for Home Canning', 'Meth...

As the go-to girl for relationship and dating advice, this real life Carrie Bradshaw and editor at Essence magazine shares the what-to-dos and what-not-to-dos for fabulous single living.LIVE A FABULOUS SINGLE LIFE!Are you stressed about meeting “the one,” getting “the ring,” and exchanging “I dos” at the altar? Do you feel frustrated by the seeming lack of relationship-worthy guys? Would you date yourself right now?

Yuri Jones grew up the only child of successful parents--her father, a doctor, her mother, an attorney. They always gave her anything her heart desired except for what she craved most which was love and attention from them.Her parents painful divorce send Yuri spiraling down the road of sexual seduction and deceit still in search of that love and attention she thought she never got growing up.Her extreme beauty and sexual appetite allows her to exploit every situation.

Herbal treatments and aromatherapy are valuable, time-proven, natural approaches to a healthy and more comfortable pregnancy and birth as well as a successful breastfeeding experience. Herbalist, instructor, and midwife Demetria Clark explains everything a woman needs to know about using herbs and essential oils during this important time of life. Demetria explains which specific essential oils can help with particular physical and emotional challenges that commonly affect women during pre...

Herbalist Demetria Clark shares her wealth of knowledge and experience to provide a practical guide for dealing with common childhood health issues. Both parents and health practitioners alike will find immense value in these time-tested, safe herbal therapies. Easy-to-use, the comprehensive manual offers a treasury of practical recipes for reliable, age-appropriate remedies; insight into why medicinal herbs are effective, and which conditions they treat; advice on gathering, preserving, a...

Aromatherapy is the practice of using scent to stimulate a healing response for curing physical, emotional, and mental health issues. Essential oils, formed from the aromatic compounds found in flowers, seeds, stems, roots, leaves, and fruits, can be used in the bath, in skin care products, and in diffusers for application in the air. Aromatherapy covers how to use essential oils safely and effectively and provides recipes for combinations of scents for specific health needs.

Poetry in Dangerous Times: Two Women, Two Worlds brings together two of America's most fearless literary voices. Demetria Martínez's and Susan Sherman's timely and intimate conversation spans decades, movements, and genres.Part memoir, part retrospective, and wholly poetic, this collection opens with a dialogue between the two authors. It then unfolds into a generous offering of new and selected poems from each. Martínez and Sherman explore the intersections of poetry and ...

Solid marriages can create healthy communities, and stronger communities can make a better world. Within the home, the role of the wife is critical. When she is equipped with spiritual tools to serve from a place of fulfillment, she is able to make a tremendous impact on our world today, and in the future.If you're a wife:Are you juggling "several" responsibilities?Is your "To Do" list endless, and is your proverbial "plate" full?Do you feel exhausted, and i...

Solid marriages can create healthy communities, and stronger communities can make a better world. Within the home, the wife’s role is critical. When she is equipped with spiritual tools to serve from a place of fulfillment, she is able to make a tremendous impact on our world today, and in the future.If you’re a wife:Are you juggling “several” responsibilities?Is your “To Do” list endless, and is your proverbial “plate” full?Do you feel exhausted, and is you...

When we arrived back home, I started dating Lex. He helped me get through my bad days. We always went out for dinner, and a movie or one of us was cooking. He drank Remy Martin VSOP or 1738, so we drank together, ate together, and had explosive, nasty sex together. The new millennium was about to begin. It was “anything goes” when it came to sex. I was grown, and Lex got for real, uncensored, nasty sex that no one else had gotten, and of course, we used a condom.I sold all my weed ...

These essays are true narratives about the author’s life with her Philippine family of origin. It covers her childhood and early adult years in the Philippines between the 1950s and 1970s and her more than three decades of working as a permanent resident in Canada, and then continues with her retirement years alternating between these two countries. Reflecting on her roles as daughter, granddaughter, niece and sister to six siblings, she describes joyful and unhappy incidents in the contex...