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Does your Grandmother dip snuff in secret? Has the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ever run your long johns up the flagpole? Has your mother ever starved the family to death while waiting for moochy relatives to leave at suppertime? Have you suspected that your family cat had a desire to eat you? Has a high school custodian ever held a 12-gage shotgun on you? Does your Grampa have a secret cache of whisky in the barn?

If you can answer "Yes" to any of these questions, and maybe even if you can't, "Grandma Dipped Snuff" is a must-read book for you. Taken from a weekly column in a...

Since the end of the Cold War the world has become a different and increasingly volatile place, where our lives are ever more intertwined with the lives of others around the globe; a world of rising terrorism, of clashing cultures and religions, of expanding multi-national corporations, of economic volatility, environmental damage and much, much more.

These changes have brought rise to problems that we can no longer push aside. A new generation of international students, brought together by arguably the top two international student conferences in the world, the ISC-Symposium and the World...

"A Plague of Darkness" sheds light upon the sense of quiet desperation currently devastating the children of our society: Black, white, yellow or red. This plague, which we watch morph and transform itself into its differing forms every evening on our nightly news is an equal opportunity destroyer. During a cross-country plane trip, Payack penned "A Plague of Darkness." To better illustrate (and encapsulate) the emotional toll this unseeable plague has wreaked upon the emotional lives of our children across the land, he further illustrated this essay with a series of some thirty 'collages'...

"Journal of a Superfluous Woman: A Collection of Essays" documents a woman's struggle to understand life and her place in it. Her experience with breast cancer forms the catalyst for an examination of conscience--a looking back in order that she might move forward. These essays attempt to put into perspective childhood memories, race, religion, relationships, career choices, training versus education, illness, death, and a perception that the world still undervalues the role of the unwed and childless.

It is said that she who writes about herself and her time writes about all people for...

Have you ever stopped and listened to your internal chatterbox? You know, that voice inside your head that just rambles on from one thought to another, influencing you without you even being aware it does? Well, this book pokes fun at your chatterbox in a way that may make you think about your own thought more and a way that surely will make you laugh. Don't you feel you deserve to take a break and enjoy a good laugh? Sure you do...buy this book and take it home and share it with your friends and family. Buy it now.

You are invited to engage in a stimulating series of "Silent Conversations" with poet-essayist David Cysewski, immersing yourself in his verse, letters and "mutterings" on personal and global events. You will laugh, cry, find yourself "gentled" by romance, delight in the beauty and humor of nature, and rage or poke fun with David at the nation's perennial wars, violence and foolishness. During David's eighty years of life he has gained the reputation of being something of a sage as well as a teacher. Certainly you will come away with your thinking nudged, your heart touched and your life...

A record of the Saturday Club from 1855-1870.

Whether you have a slight addiction to caffeine, an irrational hatred of supermodels, or enough training in domestic peacekeeping to secure federal employment, Shana McLean Moore has the antidote to your pain. She knows you'll find it at the bottom of a hot cup of coffee, savored while taking a few minutes out of your selfless day to indulge in some of her caffeinated ponderings.

Shana's look at life, laughter and lattes is sure to leave you feeling tickled, validated and ready for a second cup...especially since the first one might just have escaped through your nose

Find out how you...

"Let YourSelf Be" is a collection of observational essays. Observing life, and reflecting on its magnificence, is Roger's favorite pastime. In this book, Roger explores the bottomless feeling of a ""rimpickle,"" and the overwhelming sensations of an ""ummpucker,"" feelings for which he had no known language.

In "Let YourSelf Be," Roger plays with parables, mixes metaphors, and exposes intuition. His personal perceptions, coupled with divine inspiration, challenge our perspectives of Life, Love and Harmonious Interbeing.

If you have spent your life hiding behind your hands, hoping no one...

The Seeker's guide to irreverence

"BECOMINGNESS"

The Auhtor uses this word to describe the cosmic force that drives everything that is today. You will get some ideas about using it right now.

Hurried?--you are awash in time.
Our greatest human accomplishment is a drag (see About Language)
Doors open for you, so MOVE before they slam shut.
Prayer works--sometimes. Discover the reasons why that can make a difference for you.
"How the hell did I get here?"--Some thoughts about how to do it better.

Bananaman is tired of exposed navels, breast implants, telemarketers, reality television shows, doctor's waiting rooms and ill-mannered, sloppily dressed generation x'ers and yuppies. He collects LP's, prefers manual typewriters, dials a rotary phone. His baseball hero is Mickey Mantle not Barry Bonds. He protested the Viet Nam War not Project Iraqi Freedom. He once wore his hair in an Afro and despises men with shaved heads and balding men who wear pig tails. His president will always be John F. Kennedy, not 'W.' Amusing diatribes are offered on health food fads, cosmetic surgery, diet and...

Christine Downing has graced the campus of San Diego State University, returning like Persephone each spring for the past ten years to deliver the annual lecture named in her honor. Printed here in their entirety, the talks are autobiographical, poetical, literary musings on the subjects that have occupied her for the past ten years, including the Holocaust, memory, the Bible, the Goddess, Martin Buber, Sigmund Freud, the myth of Orpheus, Greek tragedy, and the Imagist poet H.D.

Professor Downing's extensive publications on the role of myth in the psychologies of Freud and Jung, and in the...

"Bright Orange Sweater-Coat" is the product of four years of musings in the most formative period of this young author. Encompassing a wide range of subjects, it is a potpourri of thoughtful ruminations and light-hearted reflections.

This talented young man, who will without a doubt become a major voice of our age, elicits both hearty laughter and genuine introspection from any reader. His narrative voice is nothing short of delightful as he weaves his stories, essays, and his novella "The Women of Andros."

Timothy Goddard, with a stockpile of diverse knowledge characteristic of a...

"The prerequisite to being truthful to yourself is to feel connection with another. Simple, everyday stories we all experience should be written in simple, everyday language we all use. The best stories deal with the small concerns of life and you don't need fancy words for that. These stories tell us about the diversity and story-worthiness of ordinary people. They speak to our sense of closeness--and above all, to our spacious sense of possibility. It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. And even more extraordinary is the number of stories they are carrying...

"Our children go to a progressive school which I'm beginning to think means a school that will progressively drive their parents out of their minds."

All of the essays in "A Few Things I've Noticed" have one thing in common--Madora Kibbe's humorous slant on modern family life. Whether it's the momentous purchase of a first pet, the pros and cons of children's piano recitals, the irksome lack of desks in today's elementary schools, or just the simple pleasure of hanging clothes to dry on a clothes line, Madora Kibbe finds fun in the smallest details of every day doings. These essays are...

"Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths" is a fascinating collection of commentaries on current issues, famous and infamous individuals, passing fads, Baby Boomer memories and personal experiences. The more than 70 short essays by Michael M. Bates are provocative and may strike some as controversial. They all appeared in his regular column in the southwest suburban "Chicago Reporter Newspapers." There aren't many books that run the gamut from Adams (John) to Zorro. This one does, and includes observations on topics as disparate as the IRS, Banned Books Week, pet psychics, the Chicago Cubs,...

Renaldo Hudson, an inmate at a maximum-security prison outside Chicago, initiated a writing contest in the fall of 2003, asking Illinois prisoners to reflect on the questions, "Who am I, and what can I do to be better?" "Lockdown Prison Heart" contains the thirty-eight personal essays submitted to that contest. These brief writings--thoughtful, angry, sorrowful, honest, regretful, meditative--allow us to hear directly from people whose voices are too often distorted or ignored by mainstream media. The proceeds from the collection will be donated to Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation,...

Transatlantic humorist David Bouchier brings wit, wisdom and a touch of philosophy to the everyday dramas of American suburban life. This book brings together more than a hundred essays, originally broadcast on National Public Radio, or published in his "Out of Order" column in the Sunday New York Times.

When work and marriage brought David Bouchier to Long Island in 1986 the endless suburbs seemed mysterious and exotic to him. He was inspired to begin writing essays and newspaper columns about his life there - a personal and public diary of the Resident Alien experience. In 1992 a weekly...

"Writing from the tip of Borneo" is compilation of some of the articles by Amde Sidik that were appeared in his guest column "Malaysia's Daily Express" for the last two years up to 2004.

It is about local Malaysia-Sabah political affairs in 2000s. Amde's articles are his observations and comment on the issues of social justice and economic justice. Sometimes he can be down to earth, like, who should hold public office and what they suppose to do.

His regular readers love to see his provoking column. But he often disappears, and reappears only when he feels like it. Pity. ""Sabah is a...