Fatherhood is about loving, living, and learning alongside your kids. AND playing with them.If you don't like to play, learn! Kids are fun teachers; ask them how to play. It is important that you do not shut them down.Here are fifty ways to be a fun-loving father - including but not limited to:Being athleticBuilding a fortReading and playFunny facesSarcasmAffection and funHolidaysPleasure in life itself

In a world where fear of difference has caused unimaginable pain and sorrow, this powerful work seeks to bridge the gap between the gay and straight communities. Through heartfelt storytelling, it highlights the devastating impact of intolerance-from mass shootings to the tragic killing of a classmate, and the painful separation of families.This book is a call to action, urging us to use the power of our voices to foster understanding and compassion. Let the conversation begin, and...

My Dog Joe is the heartwarming story about a loveable collie-shepherd mix who loves life and everything in it. He shows his owner how to love life too-just when he needs it most.

The Shadow Soldier Series is a collection of interconnected military thrillers that explores far more than combat. These character-driven novellas examine the moral choices ordinary people face when confronted with extraordinary evil. More morality plays than action adventures, each story asks a timeless question: What will you do when evil stands before you?At the center of the series is Sergeant James Terrance "Sarge" Welder, founder of ...

Life hasn't been easy for Siobhan Dunmoore and many of her fellow veterans since the Shrehari War ended.The Fleet's quick return to a mundane peacetime footing left them unmoored and incapable of fully readapting after years engulfed in an existential struggle. Meanwhile, the memories of all those hard-won lessons, paid for with humanity's dearest blood, are fading as careerists, bureaucrats, and politicians in uniform replace the leaders who brought about the war'...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave her no c...

The Shadow Soldier Series is a collection of interconnected military thrillers that explores far more than combat. These character-driven novellas examine the moral choices ordinary people face when confronted with extraordinary evil. More morality plays than action adventures, each story asks a timeless question: What will you do when evil stands before you?At the center of the series is Sergeant James Terrance "Sarge" Welder, founder of ...

The Shadow Soldier Series is a collection of interconnected military thrillers that explores far more than combat. These character-driven novellas examine the moral choices ordinary people face when confronted with extraordinary evil. More morality plays than action adventures, each story asks a timeless question: What will you do when evil stands before you?At the center of the series is Sergeant James Terrance "Sarge" Welder, founder of ...

What is the value of one life in an interstellar war that has already claimed millions? And if that single life doesn't matter, are any others worth saving?A distress signal draws Siobhan Dunmoore's Q-ship Iolanthe, a battlecruiser disguised as a bulk freighter, away from her devastatingly successful hunt through Shrehari occupied space and plunges Dunmoore into a dark, merciless universe of competing government organizations, undercover warfare, and organ...

The Shadow Soldier Series is a collection of interconnected military thrillers that explores far more than combat. These character-driven novellas examine the moral choices ordinary people face when confronted with extraordinary evil. More morality plays than action adventures, each story asks a timeless question: What will you do when evil stands before you?At the center of the series is Sergeant James Terrance "Sarge" Welder, founder of ...

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore no longer enjoys the freedom to fight the Shrehari Empire on her own terms aboard the Q-ship Iolanthe. Special Operations Command has assigned her to Task Force Luckner, whose mission is replicating Iolanthe's success on a larger scale. Unfortunately, neither her new superior, Rear Admiral Kell Petras, nor any other captain in the task force understands successful commerce raiding requires a different mindset. Instead of sheepdog...

All good things must end, and a reluctant Siobhan Dunmoore trades command of her battle group for a staff job ashore.Yet her appointment to the headquarters of the 3rd Fleet, responsible for humanity's most restive frontier, is no accident. Things aren't quite right in what was once the most ferocious and effective formation in the Navy, and its control over the Rim Sector's outer edges is failing.When Dunmoore investigates, she finds herself adrift on stor...