How do you keep yourself occupied when even in old age, you're spry and healthy? Adrian finds out the hard way when the family decides to move, without him! Now living in a retirement home, he finds ways to busy himself, and discovers that his help is not wanted.

With the continuing decline of society where both parents are required to be employed to make the household budget stable, all the more important it becomes that we as parents do the very best we can in the educational raising of our children. For regardless what we may think, they are the mirrored images of us, and of our future, but only if we do a good job. This is a simple compilation to assist young parents as they get started. (Or scare those in contemplation away from it!)

Diese kleine Anthologie versammelt eine Auswahl deutschsprachiger Gedichte aus der Feder des Autors. Die Texte sind eigenständig entstanden und spiegeln persönliche Gedanken, Stimmungen und sprachliche Bilder wider. In konzentrierter Form eröffnen die Gedichte stille wie eindringliche Momentaufnahmen, die zum Innehalten und Nachdenken einladen. Die Sammlung versteht sich als poetischer Raum, in dem Sprache, Gefühl und Reflexion in einen feinen Dialog treten.

Have you ever sat in the waiting room by the Doctor and simply observed all the others? This is a short insiders view of waiting rooms here in Germany.

Tommy is born, and starts his life with his brothers and sisters, and not to forget his fearless mother protecting her young. Soon he is kidnapped and brought to his new home, where an older cat which already lives there and the peoples faithful dog help him with the problems of growing up to be himself a fearless Tomcat.

Aggression tends to breed more Aggression. So when the company's chemist Samuel doesn't fit in with his colleagues at the company, the bullying starts. It gets worse by the day, till an idea gets into his head. Samuel has a form of revenge that nobody could even begin to imagine. Till one day, as the bullying and his revenge simply goes just a little too far. And creates a headache of a problem for the Police force.

Steve's assignment to Iraq, instead of the Flight Academy, is boredom-ville. That is until his Radar Technician turns him on to a totally strange hobby to replace the day to day humdrum of being stuck in the dust bowl capital of Iraq. A new hobby that will forever change his life. And has consequences for those around him.

Where did all our youthful years go? It seems like only yesterday that we were young and full of energy, and now we are careening into old age like slipping on ice and unable to stop. So how is it when our bodies suddenly slip a gear, and we become old overnight, and what is in store for us as we continue to age?This is a comical look at how we suddenly age overnight and the journey that awaits us farther down the slippery road of "Old Age".

After Daniels photography business goes bust, his grandfather wishes to tell him something important, so he pays him a visit at the retirement home. The story his grandfather narrated sounds crazy, but will Daniel follow up on it to prove its falsity?

David Jensen is an author, speaker, consultant and Founder of The Hiring Academy. He addresses what has proven to be the most critical success or failure point of any business of any size: hiring the right personnel. Jensen's purpose is to help business owners find and hire the right people so that they can pull back from their business and yet continue expanding. Surveyed business owners, executives, and Human Resource personnel unanimously HATED the process of hiring! Jensen aims to help...

Sarah's childhood is plagued with family tragedies, so when the love of her life appears, she radically changes her life. Years later, she realizes that for some people life is not all roses. Envious of her one and only friend, she daydreams, which results in her making the worst mistake in her life.

Billy's mother dies during childbirth, but regardless of Billy's very apparent deformities, his Christian father accepts him as he is. He raises his son during the time of the arrival of the Newcomers from another world, and in a new world without electricity. With society struggling to accept the evolutionary setback of more than 150 years, slowly but surely strange things begin to happen on the farm. And with others who will become a part of his life later on.