Bud is a popular dog around town. Everyone knows his name and loves him, leading him to believe he is the greatest dog in the world. Bud’s favorite person is the local butcher Oliver, who Bud always gets up to greet. One day, Bud learns that Oliver isn’t feeling well and goes on an adventure to find his friend, following his nose to seek him out.

The Effort | Part 1 of The Inner Road TrilogyYou have been trying. For months. For years. You get up, you show up, you give everything you have. And still, something in you keeps asking the same quiet question: why is it not enough?The Effort is not a guide to working harder or smarter. It is a quiet companion for anyone who has been running without arriving. Who has confused movement with progress. Who has carried more than their share f...

The Doubt | Part 2 of The Inner Road TrilogyYou have been trying long enough that the question has stopped being about the path. It has turned inward. Not loudly. Quietly. As a state you carry so constantly that it no longer feels like something separate. It feels like you.The Doubt is not a guide to becoming more confident or silencing your inner critic. It is a quiet companion for anyone who has questioned their own judgement for so long that they no lo...

The Why | Part 3 of The Inner Road TrilogyYou are still here. Still getting up. Still going. Not because it has become easier. Not because the effort paid off the way you imagined. Not because the doubt disappeared. But because somewhere underneath all of it, there is something that has not been named yet.The Why is not a guide to finding your purpose or building a better morning routine. It is a quiet companion for anyone who has been running long enough...

The Inner Road Trilogy | The Complete CollectionThree states. One journey. Three audiobooks in one.The Effort is about giving everything and still not arriving. About an exhaustion that is invisible because it looks like functioning. About movement that costs everything and still does not feel like progress.The Doubt is about what happens when effort goes unanswered long enough. About questioning not just the path, but yourself. About a state so c...

Not Broken | A Quiet Book About Inner StatesThere are inner states that many people carry but rarely speak about. Stillness that will not move. Doubt that has become background noise. Restlessness without a clear reason. Invisible pressure. A quiet emptiness. The persistent struggle with oneself.Not Broken is not a guide to overcoming these states or turning them into something more manageable. It is a quiet companion for anyone who recognizes themselves ...

Cady has her dream job. Her dedication to her career and omega designation make her uniquely qualified to write the advice column that's turned into a national sensation: The Knotty Omega.The cute beta at work keeps flirting with her, and while she wishes things could be different, the beta has a bite mark—he's already bonded to a pack.And a pack is the last thing Cady wants.When her experimental drug that makes her smell bonded is literally flushed...

Out of Time? has many different meanings, amongst them outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply delayed. In the disability context, it may also refer to resistant attitudes of living in “crip time” that contradict time as a linear process with a more or less predictable future. According to Alison Kafer, “crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds.” What does this mean in the disability arts? What new concepts of accessibility, crip futu...

Researchers' own experiences affect every aspect of the research they do, from conceptualization of the issues to be researched, relationships with research participants, to interpretation of findings, to writing up results, to dissemination. This article discusses reflexivity and provides examples of what it is.Reflexivity is important topic for qualitative researchers to consider and to experiment with. For research to be credible, researchers must be reflexive no matter which me...

First used to describe the weariness the public felt toward media portrayals of societal crises, the term compassion fatigue has been taken up by health professionals to name—along with burnout, vicarious traumatization, compassion stress, and secondary traumatic stress—the condition of caregivers who become “too tired to care.” Compassion, long seen as the foundation of ethical caring, is increasingly understood as a threat to the well-being of...

Offering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it. Examining the ways in which children express their thoughts, feelings and actively generate meaning through experience and interaction, this fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated throughout by extensive case studies and covers a diverse range of topics, including:s...

Awards2023 H.L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.“Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe,” received the 2023 National Communication Association's Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award.The second edition of the award-winning Handbook o...