Blue.River.Apple. –THIRD HARVEST – A caregiver's orchid. Alzheimer's. Letters of Love. Poetry. – Another year passes. What an honor to win the 2018 Senior Citizen of the Year Award by the Nevada Delegation of the National Silver Haired Congress, a grassroots initiative that promotes issues involving older Americans. Nancy was awe-struck by everyone's words and sentiments, and saw for the first time just how important her dementia advocacy is as it spreads positive...

Blue.River.Apple. – SECOND HARVEST – A continuation of Alzheimer's through poetry – covers the following two years of "how-to" wade in the salty dementia truth. It's not lofty or lightly, or unintended, but large, open to receiving and trusting that there is hope and help. It took a lot of "you got this, girl!" self talk to believe. During this time, Nancy's diagnosis changed from early on-set Alzheimer's to Mild Cognitive Impairment. Though a lesser diag...

Confirmation that I was to follow in my father's footsteps jarred me in ways I never imagined. Since hearing the news, I awaken between 3 and 5 in the morning. Zero dark thirty is when my eyes fly open and I'm full-on aware. The words that normally tumble off my tongue now flow feverishly by pencil over a yellow-lined pad—as though I am possessed. And I write. Poetry. It is through my stepping up, speaking out, and sharing my own very personal thoughts and feelings that will emancipate the...

Writers Sidekick Resource Hub gathered great authors and their literature to create the Las Vegas Authors Anthology 2019.Paul Atreides, Keech Ballard, Ned Barnett, Anderson Black, Darlien Breeze, A.L. Campbell, Tamia Dow, Tracy Downey, Lauryn Dyan, Nadia Fox, Andres Fragoso Jr., IM Humanity, Kristine Johnson, Colin Mole, Chema Montecristo, Nancy Nelson, John Bear Ross, Valerie Runyan, Judy Shine-Logan, Lauren Tallman, Tonya Todd, Joe Van Rhyn, RJ Waters, Darrah Whitaker William.

Writers Sidekick Resource Hub gathered great authors and their literature to create Literary Visions Las Vegas Anthology 2020.Paul Atreides, Keech Ballard, Ned Barnett, Anderson Black, Darlien Breeze, AL Campbell, Tamia Dow, Tracy Downey, Lauryn Dyan, Nadia Fox, Andres Fragoso Jr, IM Humanity, Kristine Johnson, Colin Mole, Chema Montecristo, Nancy Nelson, John Bear Ross, Valerie Runyan, Judy Shine-Logan, Lauren Tallman, Tonya Todd, Joe Van Rhyn, RJ Waters, Darrah Whitaker William.

"In Art, a picture is worth a thousand words. In Literature, Authors write a thousand words to tell a single story."I had this idea of taking photos of American authors and exhibiting them across the country. I started photographing Las Vegas authors with absolutely no one's help. All on my own. The form and style of my photos are of my creation. I alone with no one's help have designed everything that has to do with this project, from taking the photographs to the layout of the An...

Awarded second place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Information Technology category. See how information technology intersects with health care! Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, 2nd Edition prepares you for success in today's technology-filled healthcare practice. Concise coverage includes information systems and applications such as electronic health records, clinical decision support, telehealth, ePatients, and social media tools, as well as system imple...

Supporting teachers in preventing classroom management problems and responding to unwanted behavior when it occursComprehensive Behavior Management: Schoolwide, Classroom, and Individualized Approaches supports teachers in preventing management problems and responding to unwanted behavior when it occurs in classrooms. The text offers a comprehensive presentation of three levels of behavior management strategies: individual, classroom, and ...

100 recipes for teen and family favorites that prove eating gluten-free doesn't meant sacrificing foods, flavor, or convenience.Sarah Berghoff McClure practically grew up in the kitchens of Chicago's historic Berghoff Restaurant, where wheat-filled German-American favorites such as schnitzels, spaetzles, strudels, and rye bread are staples. When Sarah was diagnosed with Celiac disease, she thought her days of eating her favorite pizzas, pastas, and pastries with her...

For Kaia, setting foot outside can be deadly. Climate change has made Earth too dangerous for people to live anywhere but inside the City. Run on the energy created by its Citizens and sustainable in every way, the City uses microchips, called pulse points, to control the energy its inhabitants use.When Kaia's pulse point malfunctions, she experiences freedom from the strict City rules for the first time in her life. With unlimited energy, she doesn't need to run for hours on a sens...

What kind of candy do vampires make? Did you hear about the ghost who went trick-or-treating? Who attended a young Frankenstein’s costume party? Why do toys hate Halloween? And is anything cooler than a werewolf pirate? Get ready for Nano Adventures - Halloween featuring 12 spooky rhyming tales.

Selected for the Forest of Reading Teen Committee's Summer Reading pick!Finalist for SYRCA 2018Following the events of Pulse Point, 12-year old Ama and the other Underlanders living in a world of darkness dig for brine, the City's real energy source. Underland is a dangerous place: cave-ins, starvation and illness are constant threats. When their leader deserts them, Ama goes looking for him and stumbles on two Citizens. Neither knew the other existed.18-year ...