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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...

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...

That's what thirty members of the Bridge Builders class at Forest Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church share with the reader. Faced with the challenge, ""Everybody has a story--what's yours?"" these writers open their lives through their stories, whether it is a mini-autobiography or a vignette of a never-to-be-forgotten experience. Stories hold us together. Young and not-so-young readers will be reminded that even though circumstances may be different today than years ago, the principle still holds true that ""Young people...

These thoughtful and engaging "Greenwich Time" Op-Ed pieces chronicle the life and times of author John Robben, illuminating his evolution from infant to grandfather and spanning the eras of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Drawn from seven decades of his journals, Robben recalls Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign for...

This revised, second edition begins with an updated version of his multi-part essay 'Reactions to Homophobia," followed by poems and short essays on a variety of topics, such as writing, AIDS, religion, violence, family, friendship, and gay relationships. It also includes several new or newly revised works.

Many of the poems and essays in this collection also appeared in various magazines and newsletters. Though "Holding...

A Banquet for the Soul

If a day passes, does it leave a mark? If a year falls away, what do we gain from it? These questions strike a special chord with our own times, when the living of life has become a lost art. Over one hundred years ago the writer John Ruskin prophesied the decline of spirit and sensibility, calling his own generation "the age of brown," and in many ways our century has followed suit.

Rediscover the flavour and beauty of life in "Savour: A Year's Journey Through the Arts and Beyond." Month by month, each chapter offers a selection of classic literature, art, and...

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter provide a vivid backdrop as we meet intriguing people who inject wonder into our lives: a newspaper columnist tells of his fondness for Elysian, a tiny town in southern Minnesota; a grandson remembers life with his grandparents; a young farmer recalls the devotion of a mother to her daughter; and a popular professor of astronomy at the University of...

. . . A beautiful Bulgarian-born mother flees her past to become a pilot in America. . . A child discovers why her glamorous mother with a dark past . . . has made her unacceptable to her new family. Buried memories of an abusive father, his "surges of creativity and his fury."...

"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining."

--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University.

Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Ph.D., is an artist and professor at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and faculty in the Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork appears on numerous book and journal covers.

Cuthbert went through some harrowing moments in his life, from being sexually molested to losing his younger brother in a car accident. In an effort to deal with his emotions, Cuthbert put pen to paper to produce an honest and moving compilation of his personal experiences.

Perhaps you will see something of yourself in Cuthbert. Reading "One Man's Thoughts" may give you the...