Things I Should Keep to Myself is a collection of short stories and poems, written over the past twenty years, that touch on love, loss, mental illness, and paranormal experiences.

Poet as Painter, Spirits Past and Present, Tender Connections, Magical World, Radical Content, Divine Availability: This collection of recent poems, paintings, and photographs reflects my ever-increasing astonishment at the beauty of the world and its essential connection to our inner lives.

Cliff Keane gets paroled at age 26, after eight years in the Oregon State Penitentiary. With no money or possibilities, he returns to his little town hoping for forgiveness and a new life. His older sister finds him a rental; his parole officer finds him a job. But the going isn't easy. Everyone knows his past, and three families hang on to their hatred for him. Bit by bit, Cliff makes his way into recovery, into a calling, into real love, where forgiveness waits.

Becoming a Creative later in life has been the most amazing gift. And when the pandemic lockdown came, I started writing a poem every day to express my feelings and observations. At about the same time, I began taking photos of my neighborhood on my daily walks and posting them online. Both practices have been so wonderful that I've kept them up. Creative practices have endless variety, endless things to learn and try, so much satisfaction to be had in the doing. Marrying the Muse was one ...

Written by a professional editor with 20 years experience, this guide to self-editing offers writers of novels and short stories multiple ways to improve their writing and produce cleaner manuscripts to pitch to agents and editors or to self-publish. Includes 10 rules for avoiding errors in punctuation and syntax and creating clearer sentences and better description and dialog. Offers ideas for knowing when your book is really done and how to save money if you decide to hire a professional...

Written by a professional editor with 20 years experience, this guide to self-editing offers writers of essays and nonfiction books multiple ways to improve their writing and produce cleaner manuscripts to pitch to agents and editors or to self-publish. Includes 10 rules for avoiding errors in punctuation and syntax, creating clearer sentences and paragraphs, and attending to professional formatting. Offers ideas for knowing when your book is really done and how to save money if you decide...

To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800–1996 offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. The book shows how Africans in the Table Mountain region drew on the cultural inheritance of ukukhonza—a practice of affiliation that binds together chiefs and subjects—to seek social and physical security in times of war a...

Old-timers in 12-step programs say that if you want to stay sober, you only have to change one thing: your whole life. This memoir, Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman, recounts how one woman did that. Her personal stories describe the journey she took as two decades of drinking and despair gave way to a richly rewarding sober life.Kelly's demons did not go quietly when she put the bottle down. Loneliness, anxiety, distrust of others—they were all still there. This memoir t...

Pain is an epidemic. It prevents you from performing at your best because it robs you of concentration, power, and peace of mind. But most pain is preventable and treatable, and healing is within your grasp. Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe have taken life “by the balls” and circumvented a dismal future of painkillers, surgeries, and hopelessness by using Jill Miller’s groundbreaking Roll Model Method. The Roll Model gives you the tools to change the course of your life in ...

Four siblings from a pioneer Methodist family come of age on a college campus during the Great Depression. After graduating, the two sisters move into their lives as teacher and librarian. Meanwhile, the two brothers return home to the Panhandle of Idaho to mining jobs and the struggle to manifest their dreams of becoming a newspaper editor and a bush pilot. Then World War II intervenes, precipitating marriages and moral shifts that fly in the face of the social and religious expectations ...

Is this you?Do you swear off sugar and flour products only to eat them again in a few days or weeks?Do you go out of your way to buy your favorite treats?Do you feel relief when you have plenty of those treats on hand?Do you eat in secret and perhaps prefer it that way?Do you dispose of food containers and wrappers so no one will know?Do you suffer because of what and how much you eat?I lived on this miserable m...

What's a guy to do when the woman he's loved for 15 years asks for help leaving her alcoholic husband? And what if that husband is his best friend? In this unconventional romance, artist Jake Logan makes a painful and inevitable choice that sets him adrift. Crisscrossing the country with his cat Sadie, he seeks answers to his quest from several helpful strangers, but it isn't until he has a deep spiritual encounter with himself that he begins to find his true way home to love and a fresh s...