Where do my poems come from? They are the products of an idle mind, several of these ideas rattle around in those waking moments as morning clears the remnants of my dreams from my head. The poems are what remains as the dreams fade, or they are the thoughts that rattle around when I am caught up in a quiet moment.Deep Inside My Own Head is a collection of poems that reflect the thoughts that rattle around in, as the title suggests, deep inside my own head. They cover a wide range ...

Research Perspectives on Social Media Influencers and their Followers argues that the brands that find the most success on social media are the ones that acknowledge the real key to social media marketing—it’s all about the followers. This collection, edited by Brandi Watkins, explores how social media has shifted power dynamics away from brands and toward the consumers themselves—the social media users who choose to like, share, and engage with brands online. This dynamic has paved the wa...

Sandplay Wisdom provides key concepts for understanding and using sandplay therapy effectively, distilling insight from more than four decades of experience. Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman provide both core principles and hard-won practical tips to deepen understanding of sandplay therapy for both experienced and novice practitioners.The principles presented provide key insight into many important therapeutic dimensions, including childhood trauma, archetypal ...

Cycle of Four Seasons is an anthology of poems that I wrote for a writing workshop that I facilitate.

A new edition of a textbook that provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages, completely revised, with significant new material.This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract re...

How will you be remembered, by the people you love, when you are gone? Did you do right by them? Did you provide them with the kind of life they deserved? How many lives did you touch, that you did not know about?This is what goes through the mind of a man who sits waiting, after a long life, as Death slowly approaches."Icy Fingers" is a little taste of a collection of short stories that I have been working on, inspired by quote: "The examined life is not worth living."...

What, exactly, shapes us into the people we are? Attempting to understand why he perceives his relationship with his wife and children seems to be falling apart, Gene embarks on an odyssey in search of himself. He goes back to where he grew up, and reflects upon his past.Will Gene's emotional and spiritual quest lead to understanding the man he has become?

The mind is a steady stream of thoughts and images. These poems represent the steady stream of thoughts through my mind.

Sandplay is one of the fastest growing therapies. What are its origins, who were it pioneers, and how have they influenced the current practice of sandplay? What does the future hold? Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman have written a unique book that answers all these questions and many more. They give an overview of the historical origins of sandplay, including biographical profiles of the innovators together with discussions of their seminal writings. The five main therapeutic t...

A picture is worth a thousand words. But, words can evoke vivid pictures in the mind. As a painter uses his colors to create images that touch the soul, the poet uses his words to achieve the same effect.The poems in this volume, it is my hope, will create images that touch the readers heart and soul. They are the product of the poet's observations of the world around him.Several of these images reflect his perception of the world as he is out and about, some are the images...

I set out to write a poem in which Virgil is finally, after seven centuries, rewarded for his role in the salvation of Dante, by leading through the landscape of eternal damnation, to the Earthly Paradise and into the hands of Beatrice, during Easter week of 1300. "Virgil in Paradise" was the result.As I progressed in the work on "Virgil in Paradise" I started thinking, "Why not an entire collection of poems that tell stories?"The response to that questions is Stories i...

"The unexamined live is not worth living." Socrates in The Apology by Plato.Reflections is a collection of short stories in which the characters engage in examining their lives.