Underneath these gang tattoos beats a heart three times a year. I’m a slow puncture death, a murderer, a rapist, and a number. I killed my best friend. Death doesn’t stalk me, it walks ahead of me by twenty-eight paces.
I went home after I sold my soul to the devils. I thought life would begin, I was a free man, instead within days the bullets fly and my last hope dies with the slain. There is nothing left to live for in this world. I belong to the 28s, I’ll always belong to the 28s.
The woman across the road judges me, she hates me, and takes every opportunity to let me know it. Yet, somehow, when grief etched our names down in the book of the dead, we dared be bold enough to find love.
I’m not a good man, and I’m not pretty. I come from the Cape Flats where my life was reduced to a prison cell number. In all this ugliness I found beauty, innocence, and forgiveness. I can’t forgive myself for the crimes I’ve committed, but I’ll die trying to earn hers.
In a world where nothing matters, she does.
Giannoccaro brings to life a book unlike any other. Whether you are a local to South Africa or international; this is a book that resonates with a person deep in their core. This was a story that Giannoccaro says she needed to write; and it is a story that everyone needs to read. The story is an honest one about forgiveness; love and loss and the choices that we are forced to make in life. The choices in this book are divided between those you make for survival and those that are made for you and the love and loss that are a result of those choices.
Giannoccaro doesn’t just tell a story. As with all her books she takes you into a world in its entirety and you not only get to live through the hardships that Francis and Engela face but you also experience all their emotions. This level of writing is hard to come by in this day and age and Giannoccaro has just proven, with this book, that it doesn’t matter the genre that she takes on – she is a highly accomplished writer who can take a reader on a whirlwind story regardless of what it is; where it is set or whether or not you want to go on the journey.
This story gave me a lot to think about and while I am aware that it may carry a different message for different readers – the main message I took home from this story is that forgiveness is both obtainable and easily given. It is our choice to hang onto our own pain and to not move forward in life when the opportunity arises.
I highly recommend this story.
Review Rating: 5/5
Published By: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform


Friday, August 29, 2008
A Teachable Moment
Every teacher longs for that teachable moment...the small space of opening where you have your students in the palm of your hands and can truly affect their learning. I think I witnessed one of those happenings last night at Laurie Auditorium when I went to hear Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea. Here is a man, in my estimation, that could be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The above picture is of some 6th grade students and their teacher from Austin, TX, who drove down to experience hearing and meeting a real, best-selling author. Their class is reading the book together, and this field trip was a opportunity. I met them as they ask to cut in line in order to get the kids home and in bed for today's school day. What fun to watch them experience the process of standing in line at a book signing. Books take on a new meaning when a reader has a book that is connected to the author with a personal signature. The more connected a student is to books, the better the reader becomes. I think I witnessed the beginnings of a love affair with books for some of these students. As a former reading teacher, that's BIG!


The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales by Frank Richard Stockton
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A collection of nine enchanting short stories filled with curious beasts and unexpected endings. Included are The Bee-Man of Orn; The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Queen's Museum; Christmas Before Last: Or, The Fruit of the Fragile Palm; Prince Hassak's March; The Battle of the Third Cousins; The Banished King; and The Philopena (summary by Gryphon Perkins)
THE BEE-MAN OF ORN.
In the ancient country of Orn, there lived an old man who was called the Bee-man, because his whole time was spent in the company of bees. He lived in a small hut, which was nothing more than an immense bee-hive, for these little creatures had built their honeycombs in every corner of the one room it contained, on the shelves, under the little table, all about the rough bench on which the old man sat, and even about the head-board and along the sides of his low bed. All day the air of the room was thick with buzzing insects, but this did not interfere in any way with the old Bee-man, who walked in among them, ate his meals, and went to sleep, without the slightest fear of being stung. He had lived with the bees so long, they had become so accustomed to him, and his skin was so tough and hard, that the bees no more thought of stinging him than they would of stinging a tree or a stone. A swarm of bees had made their hive in a pocket of his old leathern doublet; and when he put on this coat to take one of his long walks in the forest in search of wild bees' nests, he was very glad to have this hive with him, for, if he did not find any wild honey, he would put his hand in his pocket and take out a piece of a comb for a luncheon. The bees in his pocket worked very industriously, and he was always certain of having something to eat with him wherever he went. He lived principally upon honey; and when he needed bread or meat, he carried some fine combs to a village not far away and bartered them for other food. He was ugly, untidy, shrivelled, and brown. He was poor, and the bees seemed to be his only friends. But, for all that, he was happy and contented; he had all the honey he wanted, and his bees, whom he considered the best company in the world, were as friendly and sociable as they could be, and seemed to increase in number every day.
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Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, Vol. 1) by Lynn Flewelling
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The Pastor in a Secular Age
Being a pastor is no easy task in our time. Institutions are weaker, budgets are in decline, people are uninterested, and commitment is wavering. But these are only symptoms of a bigger issue. This presentation will seek to peer beneath the symptoms and explore why many pastors find themselves in an identity crisis. The presentation examines what living in a secular age does to pastoral identity and how pastors can find new footing within it.
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Andrew Root (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is the Carrie Olson Baalson Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
He writes and researches in areas of theology, ministry, culture and younger generations.
His most recent books are Churches and the Crisis of Decline (Baker, 2022), The Congregation in a Secular Age (Baker, 2021), The End of Youth Ministry? (Baker, 2020), The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need God (Baker, 2019), Faith Formation in a Secular Age (Baker, 2017), and Exploding Stars, Dead Dinosaurs, and Zombies: Youth Ministry in the Age of Science (Fortress Press, 2018).
Andrew Root is the author of the well-received Ministry in a Secular Age series. The series offers a developed practical theology that uniquely attends to divine action. Series volumes engage with Charles Taylor’s articulation of our cultural context and the challenge he raises for Christian life in a Western world that has found divine action increasingly unbelievable. This project provides not only a needed and deep dialogue with the issues Taylor presents but also offers a constructive vision for confronting Taylor’s challenge.
· Faith Formation in a Secular Age: Responding to the Church’s Obsession with Youthfulness
· The Pastor in a Secular Age: Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
· The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
· Churches and the Crisis of Decline: A Hopeful, Practical Ecclesiology for a Secular Age
· The Church after Innovation: Questioning Our Obsession with Work, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
· The Church in an Age of Secular Mysticisms: Why Spiritualities without God Fail to Transform Us
This program is made possible through a Vital Worship, Vital Preaching Grant from the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Grand Rapids, MI, with Funds provided by Lilly Endowment Inc.


This book review is published in the Architecture Theory Review, April 2023.
Review of Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture, by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden and John Macarthur, eds., Amsterdam, Valiz, 2020, 288 pp. ISBN: 978-94-92095-93-0.
How do we articulate the value of architecture? How have social, cultural and economic relationships to architecture evolved over time? Exploring such questions is the aim of Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture, a volume edited by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden and John Macarthur from the University of Queensland. The book is a key output of an Australian Research Council Discovery grant titled “Is Architecture Art? A history of categories, concepts and recent practices” (2016–22) and follows an in- person conference held in Brisbane in June 2019. Paine, Holden and Macarthur, and the authors in the volume, are fundamentally concerned with examining the contributions of architecture to the cultural economy and contemporary society.
In its explorations of architecture, the volume adopts the lens of “value,” understood both as an analytical model and everyday reality. As analytical model, value enables the authors to assess how architecture is conceived and managed. As everyday reality, the authors demonstrate how notions of value are adopted in different ways by architects, authorities, curators, conservationists, economists, developers and other groups to inform their decision making about the future of cities and places. The volume is particularly strong when evaluating architectural value and, to a similar degree, heritage values. Other notions of value are considered by contributors across the chapters, particularly in terms of economic opportunity costs and trade-offs, when competing demands are made upon architecture and its conservation. In general, the authors agree that architecture suffers from competing social, economic, financial, political and cultural values.
Taken together, the fourteen chapters comprising Valuing Architecture examine how social and cultural practices produce value for architecture. Such practices evolve across time and space, and across cultures and societies, providing anchors for the discussions presented in each of the individual chapters. Of the eighteen contributors, half herald from Australian universities, a third from Europe and two from the United States. The chapters address exhibitions, museums, historic sites and heritage contests. Temporally, the volume is particularly concerned with the mid-twentieth century onwards. Geographically, the United States receives the most attention, followed by Western Europe, Australia and the United Kingdom, with one chapter on Japan. Stylistically, brutalism is an explicit focus, though modernism features throughout. Programmatically, social housing and community centres appear in three of the chapters. The interest in brutalism and social housing reflects current academic and popular architectural history trends.
The editors introduce the volume via a survey of how cultural value has been considered in architecture, establishing their ambitions to further probe the concept of value. In the first substantive chapter, following his monograph Obsolescence: An Architectural History (2016), Daniel Abramson returns to the concept of obsolescence to evaluate strategies for addressing the supposed lifespan of buildings. He notes a historical trend from mid-twentieth-century renewal and demolition to present-day sustainability and conservation; albeit inflected by greenwashing, gentrification and competing developmental value propositions. Ashley P aine then adopts the case study of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, examining the aftermarket trade for his mid-twentieth- century buildings, architectural fragments and items of furniture. Wright believed in the total work of architecture: structure, decorative arts and furnishings. Yet, contradicting this architectural intent, P aine demonstrates that Wright’s oeuvre has long had greater financial and cultural value in its constituent parts than whole. Avid adherents to Wright’s philosophy with deep pockets now attempt to reunify his works.
The examination of museums and exhibitions is a major strength of Valuing Architecture. Methodologically, exhibitions are discrete events and significant moments that enable contributors to evaluate conceptions of value. As with Paine, Jordan Kauffman is also interested in art markets and, specifically, how architectural drawings have greater financial value than three-dimensional architectural models. Kauffman deconstructs the formation of the market for such drawings, tracing its genealogies back to exhibitions held at the commercial Leo Castelli Gallery in New York either side of 1980. At these exhibitions, both drawings and models were displayed and priced. Thereafter, while drawings captured the interest of art market collectors, models were only considered worthy of design archives as historical artefacts.
Further chapters suggest that museums, as cultural institutions, might take greater responsibility for architectural heritage. Susan Holden and Rosemary Willink evaluate Victoria & Albert Museum’s acquisition of a section of social housing from Robin Hood Gardens in London prior to its demolition. They suggest that the Museum might have advocated for the conservation of the entire housing estate in situ instead. Joanna Merwood-Salisbury portrays widespread frustrations that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York demolished the adjoining and quite remarkable American Folk-Art Museum for its recent expansion. Wouter Davidts and Anton Pereira Rodriguez provide a critique of OMA/Rem Koolhaas’ redesign of the exhibition spaces within the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
A final group of chapters explore architectural and community engagements with heritage places. Amy Clarke interrogates open-air museums: Colonial Williamsburg, United States; Fortress Louisbourg, Canada; and Sovereign Hill, Australia. With varying degrees of government and philanthropic support, these museums have both collected and reconstructed historic buildings, often to the frustrations of conservationists who perceived them as inauthentic expressions of architectural heritage. Clarke demonstrates that her case study sites are, today, less focused on architectural and aesthetic values, and more interested in historical and experiential values. Hamish Lonergan, Ari Seligmann, and Kirsty Volz and Alex Brown each examine the evolving and disputed value placed on brutalism. Lonergan takes the broadest perspective with their case study on social media and the popular ‘Fuck Yeah Brutalism’ account on platform Tumblr. Seligmann evaluates efforts to conserve the architectural icon of Kisho Kurakawa’s 1972 Nakagin Capsule Tower. Volz and Brown trace the unsuccessful campaign in the late 2010s to conserve the social housing Sirius Building in Sydney, which has now been adapted into luxury housing.
The contributions to Valuing Architecture interrogate key issues concerning the heritage and economics of culture at their intersections with architecture. Although engendering a cohesive collection, the primary focus of the volume on museum institutions and contested heritage places has inherent limitations for addressing these issues. Contributors are more focused on the politics of heritage than the conservation of architecture.
Therefore, the volume might inspire further scholarship that critically addresses both the theoretical and practical issues related to architectural and heritage values. Another possible departure point is the heritage and social economics and financing of architecture and conservation. Given the focus on settler-colonial contexts, a third area for future evaluation is the nature of cultural value when designing and building on unceded First Nations lands. Future scholarship interrogating these kinds of heritage, economic, financial and social values would require multi-disciplinary teams and multi-methodological approaches, drawing scholars from a range of fields and backgrounds who share an interest in “valuing architecture.”
Overall, Valuing Architecture examines fundamental issues of “value” in architectural history and heritage. It has many figures, photos and maps, printed in black and white, within page margins. This is a good approach when reproducing high-quality, colour figures is not feasible. The two-page, black and white, hero illustrations at the start of each chapter is another welcome inclusion, meaning each chapter is framed with a striking visual element. The volume is an essential text for architectural historians, graduate students, exhibition curators and heritage practitioners seeking a diversity of perspectives on the cultural and social production of value in architecture. It provides significant critical perspectives on the diversity of heritage practices that produce “architectural value” across spatial and temporal contexts. In our late-neoliberal economic and political climate, convincingly articulating the value of architecture, beyond its immediate financial value, remains as challenging as ever. Most significantly, therefore, Valuing Architecture contributes to our shared mission of creating new theoretical and practical frames for expressing the importance of cities and places, art and design, conservation and community, and museums and galleries.
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Friedrich von Esmarch Friedrich von Esmarch, in full Johannes Friedrich August Von Esmarch, (born Jan. 9, 1823, Tönning, Schleswig-Holstein [Germany]—died Feb. 23, 1908, Kiel, Ger.), German surgeon who is best known for his contributions to military surgery, including his introduction of the use of the first-aid bandage on the battlefield. Esmarch studied medicine at Kiel and Göttingen. He graduated in 1848 and in the same year was called up as army surgeon in the war with Denmark, during which he was taken prisoner by the Danes. After the war he returned to Kiel, where he became professor of surgery (1857). He saw further military service with the Prussian army against Denmark (1864), Austria (1866), and France (1870), when he held the rank of surgeon general. Esmarch wrote a handbook of military surgical technique and instituted training in first aid for civilian and military personnel. His manuals on first aid were the best in their field and were widely used. A patent of nobility was conferred upon him in 1887 by the German emperor.
Citation Information Article Title: Friedrich von Esmarch Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Date Published: 19 February 2021 URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-von-Esmarch Access Date: April 10, 2021


Based on Truman Capote’s nonfiction novel of the same name and filmed in the house where the real-life incident occurred, this chilling tale follows two drifters (Robert Blake and Scott Wilson) who allegedly murder a rich Kansas family and flee to Mexico. Nominated for four Oscars, this disturbing black-and-white movie paints a portrait of the victims and their killers. John Forsythe also stars.
Rating: 7 out of 10
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is one of the crowned jewels in true crime literature. It not only paints an extraordinary picture of small time life and businesses but it also shows what can happen to an entire community when the monstrosity of two men can permeate their innocent lives. It’s one of my all time favorite books. Naturally I wanted to see the film the book inspired. Now, as many of you who love to read know, it’s always hard to see a movie based on a great book. We have already painted the story and characters in our minds and it’s hard to see another person’s vision of the story. At the same time, I can begrudgingly put that aside and focus on the skill of the actors and director to relate their version. With that in mind, I sat and watched the original film and have to say it’s very good but far from perfect. First, I’ll say the black and white cinematography is excellent. The story is relayed very close to the characters without feeling intrusive. It has that fly-on-the-wall quality to it. Also, the performances are particularly good by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as the two murderers. They go through myriad emotions from the beginning to the end of the story and it seems real and believable. The film also handles the story progression with quality pacing and skill.
But for all that’s good, there’s a quality to the book that just cannot be possibly contained within a visual medium. It’s impossible to capture with a camera the poetic words of Truman Capote when he describes emotions of the townspeople, the setting of the story, or the graphic nature of the crime investigation. The book wasn’t so much a crime story as it was a story about the damage that greed and evil can cause. And to that end, the film never hits that high of a note.
We usually post trailers, but here’s a monologue by Robert Blake:


An Intimate Portrait
by André Lopez
Belize: An Intimate Portrait is perhaps the most beautiful, interesting and informative book on Belize yet published.
This is not a tourist vision of Belize, but rather an amazing photographic sketch in 13 portfolios of the newest country in all the Americas. These 150 photographs provide a glimpse into the living splendor that is Belize...
Discover the incredible ethnic diversity of Belize. Visit a deaf school and music school. See the amateur excitement of men and women rodeoing and horse racing. Become intimate with the living Maya, their dance dramas, and the Maya ball game of Pitz. Celebrate the Joys of Independence and the Responsibilities of Freedom during the September celebrations. Come and politic and learn why "...you can't be a good winner if you aren't a good loser..". Know that there are no great cathedrals in Belize, but rather an unlimited supply of humble, welcoming houses of prayer, and follow a good Friday Passion-Play as emotional as any in the world. Meet the people who give the nation its heart and pulse.
The easy reading 22 page Appendix will provide you with all the practical information needed to enjoy Belize, including a chronological history of Belize, and a narration about the Garifuna whose culture UNESCO proclaimed a Masterpiece of an Intangible and Oral history. Familiarize yourself with all the special and religious Holidays, and find out why the Belizean Flag is the most unique flag in the world. Mark your calendar for every festival and event from January through December. Learn about the country- wide annual Cancer Walk, and a plethora of other useful information.
All this and more is awaiting you in Belize: An Intimate Portrait
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From introduction: "How do I know that André's book is matchless, and if I may say so, special? Because I am a born Belizean and I thank God for making me part of this beautiful and unique country...
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William Loutit Morison
1 July 1920 to 5 April 2000
Brisbane-born son of William Morison (merchant) and Estella Viles (school-teacher). Brother to Nevin, Grace, Reg and Donald (all deceased). Raised in Lindfield, NSW, and educated at North Sydney Boys' High School.
Entered University of Sydney, 1937. Graduated B.A., 1940, 1st Class Honours and University Medal in History, 1st Class Honours and University Medal in Philosophy. Graduated LL.B. 1944, 1st Class Honours. Prizes and Scholarships in each subject.
Articled 1941- 1944 to Sir Norman Cowper, partner in Messrs. Allen, Allen & Hemsley. Admitted to NSW Bar 1944.
In April 1944 discharged from RAAF aircrew training for appointment as Diplomatic Staff Cadet.
Left Department of External Affairs 1946 for appointment as Lecturer in Law in the University of Sydney.
Given leave during 1949 and 1950 to accept an Australian National University Scholarship for research in torts at Lincoln College, Oxford. Graduated D. Phil (Oxon) 1951.
Appointed Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney, in 1951, Reader in 1953, Associate Professor in 1955 and Professor in 1959. Challis Professor of Law, 1982.
Given leave 1957-58, 1959-6, and 1965 to accept Senior Fellowships, Yale Law School. Fellow of Berkeley College, Yale in 1965.
Given leave 1968-70 for appointment as Law Reform Commissioner in the NSW Law Reform Commission. Commissioned by Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General to report on reform of the law of privacy in 1972. Reported 1973. Report implemented by the Privacy Committee Act 1975 (NSW).
Served as a member of the NSW Privacy Committee from 1976-82. Served as
Member of the Board of Governors of the College of Law (the legal practical
training course administered by the Law Society of NSW) from the foundation
of the College until 1983.
Also a member of the Board of the Sydney University Press from its inception until 1983.
Member, Law Extension Committee of the Senate of the University of Sydney until 1984. Member, Post-Graduate Committee of the Department of Law, University of Sydney.
Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science 1975 - 2000.
Visiting Fellow of the Research School of Social Sciences in the Australian National University 1976-77.
Sole author of two books:
- "The System of Law and Courts Governing New South Wales"
(1st edition published Sydney 1979, 2nd edition 1984 with foreword by Sir Laurence Street) and
- "John Austin"
(1982 published London and Stanford, California)
At first sole editor and subsequently joint editor of "Cases on Torts" (1st edition Sydney 1955)
Author of chapters in the following books:
- Seminars on Evidence (Sydney
1970 ed Mr Justice H. H. Glass),
- "Toward World Order and Human Dignity"
(New York 1976, ed W Michael Reisman and Burns H. Weston),
- "Law and Society"
(London, 1978 ed. Eugene Kamenka, Robert Brown and A. E. S. Tay),
- "The Structure and Process of International Law"
(The Hague 1983 ed. R. St. J. Macdonald and Douglas M. Johnston),
- "Power and Policy in Quest of Law"
(The Hague 1985 ed. Myres S. McDougal and Michael W Reisman)
Articles in journals published in Australia, Canada, England and the US.
Joint General Editor of the Sydney Law Review from 1961 to 1972.
A philosopher and follower of John Anderson. Last writings were pieces for Heraclitus, newsletter of the Sydney Realists.
Married Mary Cork at Lindfield Methodist Church on 23 August 1947, their marriage spanning over 52 years.
Father to Donald (b. 1953), Neale (b. 1955) and Alethea (b. 1959).
Father-in-law to Joan, Julie and Neil.
'Panga' to Ben (b. 1982), Boronia (b. 1985), Phoebe (b. 1989), Alexander (b. 1996), Elizabeth (b. 1997) and Stella (b. 1999).
Moved from the first family home at Ryde to Northbridge in 1966 where he remained to the end of his life, cultivating his garden, mixing euphoria-inducing cocktails, tending the family hearth and delighting his family with humour, poetry and song.
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The rise of quit lit as a support tool for discovering sobriety has been fast! Although it is not new, the burgeoning genre has been recently named. The sober curious culture is growing and along with it, the list of books available for support.
Quit literature, popularly known as ‘Quit Lit’ is a mixture of memoirs, self-help, and psychological or scientific study books about different relationships with alcohol, and what it takes to stay alcohol-free.
Since the publication of “The Big Book”, as used by Alcoholics Anonymous, options available to those in need were limited. The list was static for many years until around 2017. If you look at a list of books published, the titles begin to multiply and diversify around that time. The list of addictive behaviors needing support is also growing. Alcohol is not center stage for literature about overcoming addiction anymore.
Many bloggers and book critics have compiled their lists. We recently wrote about vacationing while sober and bringing along some of these books is a definite must. Here are a few good lists to broaden your quit lit library!
Some are specific to the audience, like The Tempest’s list for women.
Why is Quit Lit Important?
Quit Lit is valuable for giving people the words and the voice that they need to see themselves in a situation. This African American quit lit author discusses that as well as provides her list of helpful books.
This list is included because it’s very comprehensive and covers many types of stories.
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Quit lit has been an essential and lasting tool in the sobriety tool kit for many people. There are many influencers to follow, podcasts, and online support groups that are providing ways for people to find solidarity.
As the rise in alcohol sales has increased, so has the rise in people seeking help. The subsequent boom in sobriety coaches has largely been led by women who have quit drinking and have lessons to share, turbo-charging a sober curious movement that was already on the rise.
While quit lit and any sobriety tool can be helpful, the best support you can have is in a recovery coach. We train and license recovery coaches for all people.
What have you read on this list that has changed you?
Are you a recovery coach that uses any of these titles in your practice?


DeSoto Arts and Humanities Council
DAHC groups are a fun way to share your interest in your art with others, and to grow and learn. Group members meet as often as the group members choose. They get together to share their recent work, critique each other's work, share tips and techniques, hold workshops and sometimes take field trips of interest to the group's members.
Membership in a group is free and you don't have to be a member of DAHC to take part in a group (although we hope you will join and support the arts in our community).
Presently we have the following active groups:
- Writers Group: meets on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the Cantina Clubhouse in Arcadia Village, 2692 State Route 70 East. Anyone with an interest in writing is welcome. Members read and critique each otherís work and guest speakers are scheduled occasionally. Sarah Hollenhorst is the group organizer; call her for more information at 863-244-1663.
- Photography Group: meets on the second Friday of each month at the DeSoto County Public Library, 125 N. Hillsborough Ave., from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Bring your camera and photos to share, and your questions about digital photography techniques. Occasionally field trips are scheduled. For more information, email Karen Smoke.
- Artists Group: This group meets Monday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon in the Cantina Clubhouse in Arcadia Village, 2692 State Route 70 East. Call Linda at 863-494-7734 for more information.
If you'd like to start a new group (for example, music or theater), contact DAHC and we'll help you get a group together.


Earlier Settlers from Lincolnshire played very important parts in the establishment of the early settlements of America and here is a few parts of that story.
John Smyth Influence In a relatively short period of time (1607-1612), John Smyth was used of God to establish what would become the foundational distinctives for Baptist congregations. His influence is still felt to this day in that all Baptists can trace themselves back to his ministry; a single man who stood in the gap of church history and formulated what would become a moving force for centuries to come.
William Brewster In Leiden, Brewster working with Thomas Brewer, Edward Winslow, and others, began working a printing press and publishing religious books and pamphlets that were then illegally conveyed into England. Brewster also employed himself teaching University of Leiden students English. By 1618, the English authorities were onto him and his printing press, and had the Dutch authorities in pursuit of him. Thomas Brewer was arrested and held in the University of Leiden's prison, but Brewster managed to evade the authorities and went into hiding for a couple years.
Winthrop Fleet The Winthrop Fleet of 1630 (an early part of the Great Migration) was the largest fleet ever assembled to carry Englishmen overseas to a new homeland. It was a well planned and financed expedition comprising eleven ships that carried 700 immigrants from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The group, led by Governor John Winthrop, sailed from April to July of 1630. The fleet landed at Salem. Of the 700 on board, 200 died during the voyage, and 100 returned to England soon after arrival. Some of the 400 remaining settlers stayed in Salem, but many moved on to Boston, Watertown, or other settlements.
John Winthrop As a young man, Winthrop became convinced that England was in trouble: Inflation coupled with population growth had led men to pursue wealth at the cost of their souls. Efforts to reform the Church of England had faltered. Zealous bishops hounded religious dissenters who resisted obeying the rules. Puritans like Winthrop were persecuted. As he worried about his future, Winthrop became intrigued by a new venture, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a commercial enterprise that offered the chance for religious freedom in the New World.
Pilgrim Landings LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS by: Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) HE breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed; And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear; They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free. The ocean eagle soared From his nest by the white wave's foam; And the rocking pines of the forest roared-- This was their welcome home. There were men with hoary hair Amidst the pilgrim band: Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found -- Freedom to whorship God. "Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers" is reprinted from Historic Poems and Ballads. Ed. Rupert S. Holland. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1912.
John Cotton Born in England, he was educated at Derby School, in buildings which are now the Derby Heritage Centre, and attended Cambridge University, where he also taught, and became a long-serving minister in the English town of Boston, Lincolnshire before his Puritanism and criticism of hierarchy drew the hostile attention of Church of England authorities. In 1633, William Laud was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, and like numerous other Puritan nonconformist figures, Cotton soon came under his close "eye of scrutiny". In the same year Cotton, his family, and a few local followers sailed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The Mayflower set sail for America in 1620, taking with her families in search of religious freedom. These families would eventually settle in what is now known as New England, but the origins of their religious views lie in the Gainsborough area.
The Separatists' methods of worship evolved in the relatively tolerant times of Elizabeth 1. Seeking the freedom to worship in their own way, separate from the Church of England, many of the Separatists studied at Cambridge, where they developed their religious views under their leader Robert Browne. As the Puritan movement gained a voice in the words of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, so the "Pilgrim" movement could be traced to Robert Browne's book,Reformation Without Tarrying for Anie (1580). Browne shared Foxe's vision, but after more than a decade of seeking reforms within the English church, became disillusioned. He "separated from" the English church, and in 1581 started his own congregation in Norwich, England
William Brewster was the son of the postmaster of Scrooby. Living in Scrooby Manor House and administering the Archbishop of York’s Scrooby estates, the Brewster’s were in touch with all the nation’s official news as it sped north and south on the Great North Road, England’s main communication artery. An intelligent and perceptive man, William studied at Cambridge and became one of ‘Troublechurch’ Browne’s followers. Browne fled to Holland in 1578 and thirty years later his congregation there welcomed Brewster and other fugitives whose story is told here.
After Cambridge, and service to one of Queen Elizabeth’s trusted diplomats, Brewster returned to Scrooby a committed Separatist, and became renowned for “ripping up ye hart and conscience before God”. The Church of England rector of nearby Babworth Church was likeminded Richard Clyfton, another ex-Cambridge follower of Browne. Here Brewster and others worshipped in their own style, joined in 1603 by the 12 year old William Bradford from Austerfield.
John Robinson and his wife Bridget were both from Sturton-le-Steeple, south of Scrooby. He too was educated at Cambridge University and was an inspired Separatist.
Across the River Trent in Lincoln, another ex-Cambridge man, the Separatist John Smyth, was dismissed in 1602 by his employer the Bishop of Lincoln, for preaching “strange doctrines” in church. He moved to Gainsborough and formed the hub of a congregation of 60 or 70 Separatists there. He was allowed to worship secretly in Gainsborough Old Hall by its sympathetic new owner Sir William Hickman and his mother Rose, both themselves former religious exiles. This congregation swelled when Richard Clyfton was forced to resign from his Church of England post in 1604, and members, including William Brewster, came from a wide area on both sides of the river.
In late 1606 Brewester set up a second Separatist Church in his home at Scrooby Manor, despite the possible danger from his landlord the Archbishop of York. Some members of the Gainsborough congregation were now able to worship nearer home at Scrooby, with Richard Clyfton as their pastor, John Robinson their Teacher and William Brewster himself as Elder.
In Gainsborough William Hickman was under pressure from the Bishop of Lincoln for encouraging John Smyth. William Brewster was being harassed by his landlord and employer the Archbishop of York for his own Separatist activities in Scrooby Manor. When he was briefly imprisoned in York and then fined, both Gainsborough and the Scrooby Separatists took fright, and made the decision to abandon their lives and livelihoods in England and to escape to Holland, to join the other Separatists there.
Unable to emigrate legally without permits, John Smyth and at least 40 of his Gainsborough congregation, including his wife and two babies, slipped away quietly in the winter of 1607/8. From the Gainsborough docks they could easily have boarded river barges bound down the Trent to Hull, and then have crossed anonymously from there to Holland. In Amsterdam they joined some 300 or so other English Separatists known as the Ancient Brethren.
In September 1607 the Scrooby congregation sold all their belongings and travelled overland to Boston, 60 miles to the south east. They hired a ship to take them to Holland, but downstream from Boston at Scotia Creek “the captain betrayed them … Bailiffs put them into open boats and there rifled and ransacked them, searching them to their shirts for money … even the women. They carried them back to Boston and made them a spectacle in front of the multitude that came flocking on all sides.”
They were held in Boston Guildhall cells whilst awaiting trial in the court room above, following which they were tried in Lincoln. After a month in prison most were sent back to their own parishes, bur seven, including Clyfton, Robinson and Brewster were kept in prison longer. They too were released under pressure from local sympathisers, and all returned penniless to the Scrooby area for the winter.
Later many of those who failed in the Boston attempts did escape but not without incident, many were parted from their families and only reunited in Holland after the authorities released them as they had no other ideas as to what to do with those left behind as follows.
The women, with the children and their goods, came to the Humber [a river]by boat down the Trent [for centuries a major waterway] from Gainsborough; the men travelled forty miles across country from Scrooby. Both parties got to the rendezvous before the ship, and the boat was run into a creek. This was unfortunate, as when the captain came on the scene next morning the boat was high and dry, left on the mud by the fallen tide, and there was nothing for it but to wait for high water at midday.The delay was worse than "unfortunate." Once again, authorities had learned the Pilgrims were escaping. Before everyone was onboard ship, the captain decided to leave:
Meanwhile the Dutchman set about taking the men on board in the ship's skiff, but when one boatload had been embarked he saw to his dismay, out on the hills in hot pursuit, "a great company, both horse and foot, with bills and guns and other weapons," for "the country was raised to take them." So the laconic historian says, "he swore his country's oath -- Sacramente," and heaving up his anchor sailed straight away with the people he had got. Their feelings may be imagined; and their plight was aggravated by a violent storm, which drove them out of their course and tossed them about for a fortnight, until even the sailors gave up hope and abandoned themselves to despair. But the ship reached port, at last, and all were saved.As Pilgrim men sailed southeast to their new home, their wives and children (who had not yet boarded the ship) were stranded:
The scene ashore meantime had been scarcely less distressing than that at sea. Some of the men left behind made good their escape; the rest tarried with the forsaken portion of the party. The women were broken-hearted. Some wept and cried for their husbands, carried away in the unkindly prudent Dutchman's ship. Some were distracted with apprehension; and others looked with tearful eyes into the faces of the helpless little ones that clung about them, crying with fear and quaking with cold.Women were arrested, but for what crime? Would a judge actually jail them?
The men with the bills and guns arrested them; but, though they hurried their prisoners from place to place, no justice could be found to send women to gaol for no other crime than wanting to go with their husbands. We know not what befell them. The most likely suggestion is that "they took divers ways, and were received into various houses by kind-hearted country folk." Yet this we do know. They rallied somewhere at a later day, and John Robinson and William Brewster, and other principal members of the devoted sect, including Richard Clyfton, "were of the last, and stayed to help the weakest over before them;" and Bradford tells us with a sigh of satisfaction that "notwithstanding all these storms of opposition, they all gatt over at length, some at one time and some at another, and some in one place and some in another, and mette togeather againe according to their desires, with no small rejoycing". . . (Addison, pages 40-43)Having left their English homes, they "met together again" in Amsterdam, before the end of 1608. They remained in the city of canals one year. Let's virtually visit some of the places important to these future American colonists during their Dutch sojourn.
Most of the pilgrims were released fairly soon and the following year, set sail for the Netherlands, settling in Leiden. In 1620, several of these were among the group who moved to New England in the Mayflower. On 22 July (new style: 1 August) 1620 theSpeedwellset sail from Delfshaven to Southampton. On board was a group of English puritans, living in exile in The Netherlands, and now leaving for America. In Southampton, the Speedwell was joined by theMayflower, and the two ships left together, with destination America.
The Mayflower, carrying 102 settlers, left Plymouth on September 6, 1620, without the Speedwell, and sailed for the New World with a land patent allowing them to settle specifically at the mouth of the Hudson River. The voyage took almost two months as it was drawn out by strong westerly winds and by the Gulf Stream. Turbulent seas and storms added to this delay. In one such episode, John Howlandwas thrown overboard, but managed to grab a topsail halyard that was trailing in the water and was hauled back aboard safely. Land was sighted on November 9 off the coast of Cape Cod.
The Mayflower made an attempt to sail south to the designated landing site at the mouth of the Hudson but ran into trouble in the region of Pollack Rip, a shallow area of shoals between Cape Cod and Nantucket Island. With winter approaching and provisions running dangerously low, the passengers decided to return north and abandon their original landing plans.
The location in Cape Cod Bay settled by the Plymouth Colony was outside the territory of the London Company, which had granted its patent. The northern coastal territory had been granted to the Plymouth Company, but this patent fell into disuse after the failure of the Popham Colony. It was reorganized under a sea-to-sea charter under the Plymouth Council for New England. The actual Plymouth Colony would obtain land patents from the Plymouth Council in 1621 and in 1630, but it was governed independently from the Council under the Mayflower Compact.
Although there was not a single Bostonian amongst the original flock that sailed to the New World in 1620, Bostonians played an important role in the early colonisation of New England.
With a strong Puritan tendency among the leading citizens of the town it came as no surprise when many Bostonians decided to follow the Pilgrim Fathers. They were led mainly by the family of the earl of Lincoln and supported by the town’s Vicar, John Cotton.
In March 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company was formed to organise and govern the planned settlement. The colony was managed by a Governor, a Deputy Governor and a General Court of eighteen Assistants, one of whom was Isaac Johnson. His wife, Lady Arbella, was the sister of the Earl of Lincoln.
In the spring of 1630 a fleet of seven ships crossed the Atlantic, led by John Winthrop in his flagship the Eagle which was renamed the Arbella in honour of Lady Arbella Johnson.
Dissatisfied with his original settlement at Charlestown Hill, Governor John Winthrop was attracted to the Shawmut peninsular, which the Pilgrims had called Tremount, or sometimes Treemoutaine, because of the three small hills on which the settlement had developed. On September 17th 1630 a decree was issued “that Trimountaine shall be called Boston”, naming it after the town in Lincolnshire from which many of its best citizens had emigrated. Four of the men from Old Boston – Bellingham, Dudley, Bradstreet and Leverett, together with Winthrop, controlled Massachusetts for sixty years and served as Governors one after another.
A meeting house which was erected at Boston became the First Church of Boston and when the Reverend John Cotton arrived from Boston, Lincolnshire in 1633, he became the Second Minister of the Church and the spiritual leader of a church-dominated State.
John Cotton (1585-1652): Puritan Vicar of Two Bostons
John Cotton, a gifted preacher and charismatic leader, was born in Derby in 1585. Like many non-conformists before him, he was educated at Cambridge University. Cotton moved on to Boston in 1612 where he was appointed as vicar in spite of initial opposition from the bishop of Lincoln who described him as “ a young man unfit to be over such a factious people who was inclined with the Puritan spirit”.
Even though non-conformity landed him in the court at Lincoln, he continued to rebel against the centralised basis of church government and the religious ceremonies that he thought were ‘so pressed’. John Cotton, the figurehead of Boston’s Puritan movement, had many enemies in the town, who plotted against him. In spite of them – and with the Corporation’s support – he held office for 21 years bringing great changes to Boston and attracting other Puritans to the town.
“A great reformation was wrought by (him) … religion was embraced and practised by the body of the people … the mayor and most of the magistrates were now called Puritans”.
He was eventually forced to flee from Boston to London and in 1633 he sailed to Massachusetts where he was received and ordained Teacher of the Church of Boston. Within three years he had helped compile a code of fundamental laws for the colony.
Cotton caught a cold from which he was never to recover and died in 1652 at the age of 68.


Wright, B.A., Lubker, I.M., Jones, S.D., Brown, R.E., Cyrus, J.W.W., Henderson, M.E., Ladd, D.L., Johnson, E.M., Bryant, N., Purcell, K.S. (2013) A Common Wealth of Public Health and Primary Care Information: Revitalizing a Collaborative Partnership. Poster will be presented at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
Poster will be presented on Monday, October 14 at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh
Title: A Common Wealth of Public Health and Primary Care Information: Revitalizing a Collaborative Partnership
Authors: Barbara A. Wright, MLS, AHIP; Irene M. Lubker, MPH, MLS; Shannon D. Jones, MLS, MIS, MEd, AHIP; Roy E. Brown, MLIS, AHIP; John W. W. Cyrus, MA, MLIS, AHIP; Margaret E. Henderson, MLIS, AHIP; Dana L. Ladd, MSIS, SLIS, AHIP; Emily M. Johnson, MLIS, AHIP: Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries, Virginia Commonwealth University; Karen S. Purcell, MLS/ET, MS, Executive Director, Capital Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program
BACKGROUND: Health sciences libraries provide a wealth of licensed healthcare information resources restricted to their users. However, access is not available to subscription-based materials for many healthcare providers – particularly those serving in public health or federally-qualified community healthcare centers. Often these providers do not know of or how to access freely-available information resources supporting evidence-based patient care decisions.
In 2010 the Capital and the Rappahannock AHEC regional programs and VCU’s Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences began a collaborative partnership to address this issue. With an Express Outreach award from the NN/LM SE/A program, the partnership developed and promoted a wiki highlighting open access, freely available information resources for public health providers. The wiki organized information resources in six broad public health topic areas with links to reports, web pages, books, journals, and databases. Information was provided on searching databases and obtaining articles.
METHODS: The collaborative partnership continued with a second NN/LM SE/A Express Outreach award in 2012 to expand, update, and enhance the wiki to a website [www.vapublichealthinfo.org] utilizing Springshare’s LibGuides. The new website provides resources for both public health and primary care providers. Topic coverage was expanded to twelve broad areas and a ‘How to…” section, with each LibGuide. Each of the website’s LibGuides has tabbed pages providing more focused information. Use of LibGuides enables easy updates and improved project assessment through both Google Analytics and Springshare’s LibAnalytics.
RESULTS: The new website is a greatly expanded resource of publicly available healthcare information. Users are not limited to those within the collaborating regions, and after it launched in early 2011, the wiki was accessed by users across the U.S. and from 24 countries around the world. Although the funded periods of both Express Outreach projects have been completed, the collaborative project activities are ongoing as the information needs of underserved healthcare providers continue to be addressed.


A FEW OTHER EVENTS FOR
- Happy birthday John Burningham (Mr. Gumpyâ€™s Outing), Nancy Shaw (Sheep in a Jeep), and Betty G. Birney (The World According to Humphrey).
- Itâ€™s the birth date of Wende Devlin (1918-2002), Cranberry Thanksgiving, and Jan Hudson (1954-1990), Dawn Rider.
- Coretta Scott King (1927-2006), author of My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., was also born on this day. Read Dare to Dream: Coretta Scott King and the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Medearis, illustrated by Anna Rich.
- In 1810 Beethoven composes FĂĽr Elise. Gazillions of children play it on the piano to this day. Read Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol, illustrated by Scott Cameron.
Born on April 27, 1898, Ludwig Bemelmans came to the United States when he was sixteen, after having been raised in Austria. As a child he lived in a hotel that his father ran; later he worked in a New York hotel to pay his bills. His true love, drawing and painting, had always been something he did only for pleasure.
In 1938 while bicycling on a small island off the coast of France, Bemelmans ran into a car and spent part of the summer in a local hospital. In the next room was a little girl who had just had an appendectomy. A crack in the ceiling over his bed looked like a rabbit. â€śI remembered the story my mother had told me of life in a convent schoolâ€¦and the little girl, the hospital, the room, the crank on the bed, the nurseâ€¦all fell into place.â€ť Creativity happens in the empty places in a writerâ€™s lifeâ€”in Bemelmansâ€™s case he needed the time spent in a hospital to think through his masterpiece.
Returning to New York to write the book, Bemelmans observed a French teacher who taught a class of small girls and gave them daily walks around Gramercy Park. His story begins with rhyming couplets, â€śIn an old house in Paris/that was covered in vines/lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.â€ť The youngest and cheekiest of these girls, Madeline, fearlessly faces the removal of her appendix. The operation turns out to be such a joyous event that the other girls in the convent want an operation, too.
Legendary Viking Press editor May Massee had encouraged Bemelmans to create his first childrenâ€™s book Hansi (1934), but she though this new story too sophisticated for young readers and turned it down. Hence the new publisher on the block, Simon and Schuster, ended up releasing Madeline in 1939. Although the book won a Caldecott Honor, Simon and Schuster put it out of print in 1950. Massee immediately snatched it up for the Viking list and asked Bemelmans to craft sequels, beginning with Madelineâ€™s Rescue in 1953. From then on, a growing group of devoted fans eagerly awaited each new volume. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy read Madeline to her children and corresponded with Bemelmans. Child after child has fallen under its spell. Judy Blume, one of the most beloved childrenâ€™s book writers of our era, hid her library copy of Madeline because she could not endure having it returned. As she said in Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Childrenâ€™s Book, â€śMany years have passed since I hid that copy of Madelineâ€¦but I can still recite the story by heart. When my daughter was born, Madeline was the first book I bought for her. Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.â€ť
Millions of children would agree with herâ€”they are so happy to have a friend like Madeline. Happy birthday Ludwig Bemelmansâ€”your hospital stay resulted in a book that has brought joy to generations of readers.
Hereâ€™s a page from Madeline:
Originally posted April 27, 2011. Updated for .


HOMOSEXUALITY? Things That The Media Won’t Tell You!
By Bishop Aubrey Shines
In this timely and provocative book, Bishop Aubrey Shines focuses a spotlight on the gay agenda and the current status of legal efforts to legitimize same-sex marriage. He issues a clarion call to the church to get informed and to get involved.
With a well-reasoned and balanced perspective, Bishop Shines offers a cogent analysis of the contemporary debate including:
- The insidious attempt of extremists to re-define marriage
- Legal, political, social, moral, and religious implications of same-sex marriage
- Intentional blurring and confusion between “civil rights” and “human rights”
- Exposing the “myths” of same-sex marriage
- Why Christians must become more educated and engaged to defend traditional marriage.
Homosexuality? will help you understand exactly how this is a watershed issue for the church today and why Christians must step forward and let their voices be heard!
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Sep 01 2008
Or: The Great Beach Read, 2008
Or: Reading Genre Fiction So You Don’t Have To, Part I
I have always liked mysteries, particularly as summer reading. But I haven’t read extensively in the genre, and am unfamiliar with some of the most popular authors. I especially enjoy stories featuring female detectives, and this gave the idea for the Mysterious Summer Challenge 2008: in the three weeks left to me before fall quarter starts here, I will read as many of the popular female mystery authors writing about female detectives as possible. The good, the bad, the ugly: I’ll down 6 dollar paperbacks acquired at the chain bookstores or 50-cent paperbacks acquired at the library booksale, and I will report back to you, my faithful readers, on who’s worth reading and who’s worth recycling. Happily, this will also satisfy my craving for lightweight reading, which is my reward for finishing my own completely dull and un-mysterious book.
I started off with two of my favorite novelists in any genre, not just mysteries: Dorothy Sayers and P.D. James. These two were not, in fact, part of the original plan, but I happened to read them in succession, inspiring me to take on this challenge, and as the two historical queens of crime I leave them as a foundation for everything that has come afterwards.
Series: The Lord Peter Wimsey stories — a scant dozen novels and a handful of short stories
Style: drawing-room crime detection set in 1920s London, generally involving cases of bodies in bathtubs and missing jewels. Slyly humorous — Lord Peter is master of a good quip — and generally good-natured, in the way of Bertie Wooster’s world. Things are not always pleasant — Lord Peter himself served his time in the war — but people, by and large, are alright.
Detective: Lord Peter Wimsey, the debonaire and brilliant drawling member of the aristocracy, and his wife Harriet Vane
Sayers is widely acknowledged as an early queen of crime, and has herself been a role model for smart, academic women for decades. Not only did she have a successful career at Oxford, as one of the first women to be awarded a degree there, but was a successful commercial writer, a skilled poet and translator, and — most importantly for our purposes — was the creator of Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, a totally unconventional and endearing duo. Lord Peter featured in more stories than Harriet did — and very good stories they are, too, brilliantly written, cleverly plotted, and smart — but my heart lies with Vane, the no-nonsense partner of Lord Peter, who writes novels for a living and refuses to marry Peter (despite his getting the murder charges against her dropped and his ability to lift her out of poverty) until she is convinced both of what she wants and that he wants her for who she is. Harriet doesn’t dress up, doesn’t take crap from anyone, and doesn’t let anything interfere with her work, though it’s difficult sometimes. She is not generally the detective in the Wimsey books (except in Gaudy Night, my favorite of all of them) but the stories would be incomplete without her. I have read the Wimsey books over several times, and every time there is an ache that there aren’t more of them.
Who: P.D. James
Series: The Adam Dalgliesh series (and the two Cordelia Gray novels)
Style: Serious crime detection and police procedural, set in contemporary England
Detective: Adam Dalgliesh, Cordelia Gray, and Kate Miskin, among others
James, who has won a good number of honors and a life peerage for her work, writes astoundingly well but her books always depress me. Dalgliesh, the poetry-writing high-ranking detective, is interesting (and handsome) but a very private man, and the reader has to work hard as James lets slip a piece of his character here and there. I have always liked the two Cordelia Gray novels, featuring the novice Gray as a private detective, better; and in the Dalgliesh books I have always been most intrigued with Detective Kate Miskin, who pulled herself up from being a beat cop from council housing to being a detective, and who still struggles with her history. James’ books are intricately plotted and engrossing, and very true to modern life, every detail recorded as if with a sharp camera, but there is no humor in them, and little faith in humanity. James’ villains are depressing precisely because they are so very human — people who make bad choices, are carried away by revenge or love, do the wrong thing. James explores the hearts and minds of both her (sometimes twisted and sometimes simply lost) villains and the detectives themselves, and the combination is unsettling. There is no separation, as in earlier detection fiction, of the people who commit the crimes and the rest of us, and everything is starkly realistic. I enjoy the books and think they are very good, but they always give me nightmares afterwards.
These two authors were already familiar to me — and are widely acknowledged as classics, anyway — but now it’s time to move onto the sordid ground of paperbacks: what do those modern women in modern crime fiction do, anyway?
To come: reviews of the Kate Martinelli books, by Laurie King; the Stephanie Plum books, by Janet Evanovich; the Temperance Brennan books, by Kathy Reichs; and the Kinsey Milhone books, by Sue Grafton (for which I suffered through good-natured teasing for even buying! The things I do for science).
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Classic Disney Cartoons and Comic Books: The Phantom Blot, April, May, and June Duck, Humphrey the Bear, Ranger J. Audubon Woodlore, the Brownstone Park Bears, Pluto's Good and Bad Consciences, Chief O'Hara, Toby Tortoise, Max Hare, Flowers and Trees, the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf, the Three Little Wolves, Little Red Riding Hood, Santa Claus, Reindeer, Hobo Cooke, Judge Cookie, the Skeleton Dancers, a Merry Dwarf, a lamp from The Whoopee Party, the Lonesome Ghosts, Ferdinand the Bull, Susie the Little Blue Coupe, Professor Owl, Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom, Paul Bunyan, Babe the Big Blue Ox, Dinah the Dachshund, Louie the Mountain Lion, Salty the Seal, a rooster, a hen, Girl Violin, Boy Saxophone, Casey's Daughters, the black robot from Mars and Beyond, and various black and white characters.
Mickey Mouse Works: Baby Shelby, Mrs. Turtle, Magical Mouse, Hairy Manilow, the Turkey, the 3 Kittens from "Pluto's Kittens", the Abominable Snowman, the Goatman and the 2 Aliens from "How to Camp", Chief O'Hara.
The Three Little Pigs: The Three Little Pigs, The Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Wolves.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Snow White, The Prince, The Wicked Queen, the Seven Dwarfs, the Magic Mirror, Humbert the Huntsman, the 2 Vultures and the Forest Animals.
Pinocchio: Pinocchio, Geppetto, Jiminy Cricket, the Blue Fairy, Cleo, Monstro, Foulfellow, Gideon, Lampwick, Stromboli, and The Coachman.
Fantasia: Chernabog, Yen Sid, Hop Lo, the Mushrooms, the Ostriches, the Elephants, the Hippos, the Alligators, the Cupids, one of the Centaurettes, Bacchus, Jacchus, and the Bald Mountain Ghosts.
The Reluctant Dragon: The Reluctant Dragon, Sir Giles, and the Boy.
Dumbo: Dumbo, Timothy Mouse, the Ringmaster, Mrs. Jumbo, The Circus Guards, the Crows, Casey Junior, the Elephants, and the Pink Elephants.
Bambi: Bambi, Thumper, Flower, Miss Bunny.
Saludos Amigos: José Carioca and Pedro the Plane.
The Three Caballeros: Panchito Pistoles, the Aracuan Bird, the Flying Gauchito, and Burrito.
Make Mine Music: Peter, Sonia the Duck, Sadsha the Bird, Ivan the Cat, The Wolf, Grandpa, The 3 Huntsmen, Willie the Whale, Seagulls, and Casey.
Song of the South: Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear, The Humming Birds, and Mr. Bluebird.
Fun and Fancy Free: Willie the Giant, Bongo, and Lumpjaw.
Melody Time: Pecos Bill, Widowmaker, Slue Foot Sue, Johnny Appleseed, Johnny's angel, Little Toot, and Big Toot.
So Dear to My Heart: Danny the Sheep and the Owl.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: Mr. Toad, Mole, Water Rat, Angus MacBadger, Cryil Proudbottom, Weasels, Ichabod Crane, the Headless Horseman, Brom Bones, Katrina Van Tassel, The Polices, and Tilda.
Cinderella: Cinderella, Prince Charming, Gus and Jaq, the Birds, Lady Tremaine, Anastasia and Drizella, Lucifer, the Fairy Godmother, Major, the King, and the Grand Duke.
Alice in Wonderland: Alice, the White Rabbit, the Doorknob, the Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Queen of Hearts, the King of Hearts, the Playing Cards, Dim and Dum, the Walrus, the Carpenter, the Oysters, the Dodo, Bill the Lizard, the Hammer Birds, the Pencil Birds, the Momeraths, a Flamingo, a Hedgehog, and the Bread-and-Butterflies.
Peter Pan: Peter Pan, Wendy Darling, John Darling, Michael Darling, Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Tinker Bell, Tick-Tock the Crocodile, Tiger-Lilly, The Indian Chief, the Pirates, Mr. Darling, Mrs. Darling, Nana, and the Lost Boys.
Lady and the Tramp: Lady, Tramp, Tony, Joe, Trusty, Jock, and Aunt Sarah.
Sleeping Beauty: Princess Aurora, Prince Phillip, Maleficent, Diablo the Raven, Maleficent's Goons, Flora, Fauna, Merryweather, King Hubert and Stefan, the Squirrels, Samson, the Owl and the Birds.
101 Dalmatians: Pongo, Perdita, the Dalmatian Puppies, Cruella De Vil, Roger, Anita, Horace, Jasper, Captain, Sergeant Tibbs, Nanny, and the Colonel.
The Sword in the Stone: Merlin, Mad Madam Mim, Wart (King Aurthur), Sir Ector, The Sculley Maid, Sir Pelinore, Little Girl Squrriel, Granny Squrriel, Archimedes, The Hawk, The Pike, The Hungry Wolf, and Sir Kay.
Mary Poppins: The Penguin Waiters and the Fox.
The Jungle Book: Baloo, King Louie, Kaa, Shere Khan, The Vultures, Mowgli, Bagheera, The Monkeys, Shanti, Colonel Hathi, Akela, Winifred, and Hathi Junior.
The Love Bug: Herbie.
The Aristocats: Thomas O'Malley, Duchess, Berlioz, Toulouse, Edgar Balathazar the Bulter, Abigail Gabble, Amelia Gabble, Uncle Waldo, Napoleon, Lafayette, Roquefort, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, George Hautecourt, Scat Cat, Billy Bass the Russian Cat, Shun Gon the Chinese Cat, Hit Cat the English Cat, Frou-Frou, and Peppo the Italian Cat.
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: King Leonidas, the Secretary Bird, and the Rhino Soccer Player.
Robin Hood: Robin Hood, Little John, Maid Marian, Lady Kluck, Friar Tuck, Prince John, Sir Hiss, the Sheriff of Notingham, Nutsy, Trigger, Alan-A-Dale, the Rhino Guards, the Captain of the Guard, Toby Turtle, Skippy Bunny, Sis Bunny, Tagalong Bunny, and Mother Rabbit.
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Rabbit, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Christopher Robin, Owl and Gopher.
The Rescuers: Bernard, Miss Bianca, Orville, Rufus, Penny, Madame Medusa, Mr. Snoops, Ellie Mae, Luke, Brutus and Nero, Mr. Chairman, Deadeye, Gramps, Digger, Decon Owl, and Evinrude.
Pete's Dragon: Elliott the Dragon.
The Fox and the Hound: Tod, Copper, Chief, Vixie, Amos Slade, Big Mama, Badger, Porcupine, Widow Tweed, Dinky, and Boomer.
The Black Cauldron: Taran, Princess Eilonwy, The Horned King, Gurgi, Fflewddur Fflam, Creeper, The Three Witches of Morva, and the Cauldron Born.
The Great Mouse Detective: Basil of Baker Street, Dr. Dawson, Olivia Flaversham, Professor Ratigan, 17 Henchmen, and Fidget.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman, Benny the Cab, and the Toon Patrol.
Oliver & Company: Oliver, Dodger, Tito, Francis, Fagin, Jenny, Rita, Einstein, and Rescoe and De Soto.
The Little Mermaid: Ariel, Eric, Flounder, Sebastian, Ursula, King Triton, Max the Sheepdog, Chef Louie, Scuttle, and Grimsby.
The Rescuers Down Under: Wilbur, Jake, Cody, Percival McLeach, Joanna, Frank, Krebbs, Red, Faloo, Chairmouse, and Nurse Mouse.
Beauty and the Beast: Belle, the Beast/Prince, Gaston, LeFou, Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Chip, Fifi, the Bimbettes, Moniseur Duke, the Villagers, the Wardrobe, the Dishes, Philippe and the Palanquin.
Aladdin: Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, the Genie, Abu, Rajah, the Magic Carpet, Razoul, Jafar, Iago, the Sultan, the Cave of Wonders Tiger Head, and the two Hungry Children.
The Lion King: Simba, Mufasa, Sarabi, Rafiki, Nala, Timon and Pumbaa, Shenzi, Banzai and Ed, Zazu, Scar, and the Wildebeests.
Pocahontas: Pocahontas, Meeko, Flit, John Smith, Governor Ratcliffe, Grandmother Willow, Chief Powhatan, Kekata, Wiggins, Thomas, Kocoum, and Nakoma.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Frollo, Captain Phoebus, Clopin, Achilles, Victor, Hugo, and Laverne.
Hercules: Hercules, Megara, Hades, Pain and Panic, Philoctetes, Pegasus, The Muses, Zeus, Hera, Hermes, The Fates, Nessus, The Hydra, and Bacchus.
Mulan: Mulan, Mushu, Cri-Kee, Shang, Yao, Ling, Chien-Po, Kahn, Fa Zhou, Fa Li, Grandma Fa, Shan Yu, and Chi-Fu.
Tarzan: Tantor, Tarzan
Fantasia 2000: Yo-Yo Flamingo, Rachel, Firebird, Snooty Flamingoes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Jack-in-the-Box, the Ballerina, the Springe Sprite and the Elk.
The Emperor's New Groove: Kuzco, Pacha, Kronk, Chica, Chaca, Tipo, Rudy, Waitress, and the Royal Matchmaker.
Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Milo Thatch, Princess Kida, Wilhemina Packard, Helga, and Commander Rourke.
Haunted Mansion: The Hitchhiking Ghosts, the Hatbox Ghost, Madame Leota, the Executioner, and Emily the Bleeding Bride, Coffin Occupant.


Digital Archives, Built by Students, For Students
Leaving learning resources richer than when we found them.
About this Project
Beginning in October 2017, University of Hertfordshire students enrolled in the ‘Migrants & Minorities in Britain c. 1688-1850’ module were asked to find one already-digitised cartoon of a migrant or minority group (c.1688-1850) and contribute it to the class Instagram Feed. The Instagram feed acts as a (free) digital archive of already-digitized primary sources brought together from around the web. Each image is accompanied by its relevant metadata and a URL to the original repository where it was found. This collection thus represents an ‘invented archive’ of visual primary sources that students can use in their research essays.
This module is designed to give students a deep exposure to issues and sources surrounding the history of migrants and minorities in Britain during the long eighteenth century. It also provides a context in which to develop the practical skills needed to present historical research, giving students the intellectual tools to critique a range of primary sources, and to understand the context of their creation.
- Become aware of digital archives holding visual primary sources related to the groups you are studying.
- Learn about metadata standards for describing visual primary sources
- Learn to integrate visual primary sources in your research essays.
- Uhmigrantlivesproject (2017-Present), Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uhmigrantlivesproject. The Instagram feed provides a simple and free archive that highlights the wide range of relevant primary sources that might otherwise not be evident to students when sprinkled widely across the web. In its first year the archive included 72 images and associated metadata.
- Adam Crymble, ‘Cultural Diversity in London, 1821’ The Migration Museum Project (2018).
- Adam Crymble & Sammy Sturgess, ‘Bringing Indigenous & Minority Immigrant Histories to the Curriculum’, University of Hertfordshire Learning & Teaching Conference (June 2018).
- Ian Chowcat, ‘University of Hertfordshire, Inherited Learning: Digital Archives Built by Students for Students’ JISC, (2018).
Software and Primary Sources
This project uses Instagram to host all primary sources and metadata.
The following students made contributions to the archive:
- Ellen Daly
- David Eddy
- Joshua Fowell
- Adam Hemming
- Sebastian Jones
- Lucy Kenealy
- Amy Mulryne
- Thi My Nhi Vu
- Denis O’Malley
- Tyler Osborne
- Sameer Deacon
- Joshua Draper
- Grace Herron
- Andrew Hudson
- Sharna Hylton
- Kelly Mulhern
- Sheldon Pollard
- Joel Sorby
- Jessica Thomas
- Carl Tosner
- Beatrice Zanette
Please direct any correspondence, including takedown requests, to Adam Crymble (firstname.lastname@example.org)


The first clue that the curators at The Huntington Library have thought long and hard about the presentation of their History of Science exhibition (which curator Daniel Lewis kindly showed us) is in the entryway, pictured above. The blue, curving wall on the right is a subtle mechanism for attracting people through the door—what is this surface? what is written on it?—and guiding them into the first gallery. Imagine a large flat wall panel in its place: it would produce a very different effect!
Curves define the first gallery space as well. These beautiful curving vitrines were conceived to echo the "heavenly sphere" that is the subject of this room, dedicated to astronomy. (Yes, the ceiling is vaulted too!) Dr. Lewis installed low cases so that the visitors can get up close to the books, as if they were holding them. But since this means that people bend over the cases to look inside, the lights had to be specially mounted inside the cases so that the viewer's head wouldn't interrupt a light source shining from overhead. Detailed planning that bespeaks years of experience. . . or unusual design foresight.
The next room also employs a great device for luring viewers close to the books. Dedicated to the central role of observation and illustration to the development of natural history, the walls are a vivid red that highlights the beautiful reproductions of book illustrations hung in a sort of collage style. To convey a progression through time, the earlier drawings are hung at left, followed by later lithographs, color lithographs, and prints. The ensemble is not only beautiful but inspires curiosity in the books below, which contain further illustrations and, of course, text. The presentation functions on both the level of immediate impact (beautiful wall design) and closer encounter (approaching the objects and delving into the information presented). As the curators plan to reinstall this exhibition in the coming years (it certainly doesn't show its age; it is already nine years old), I look forward to seeing what they come up with for the new incarnation.
Ideas on Display
A humble space to reflect on concepts of museum display as enacted across a wide range of subjects, countries, and approaches.


Writing and Editing
Open access and licensing
Drawing from my six-years work experience in post-secondary administration, I’m happy to assume most administrative roles related to the dissemination of results and media. For example, working with people affiliated with the project to gather content submissions or information for publishing, organizing events related to the communications work (e.g. a research-success celebration), or acting as a point-of-contact for the researcher’s business officer regarding communications and funding guidelines.
Please email me if you’d like to schedule a phone call or a meeting at your institution, or to receive a quote: email@example.com
“The writing, editing and consulting services Andrew provided helped prepare my research findings for publishing, and complete a SSHRC proposal that includes plans for an online system that collects and disseminates case-studies.”
– Ginette Lafrenière, Professor and Director, Social Innovation Research Group and Manulife Centre for Community Health Research (May, 2018)
We’re in a phenomenal age of storytelling, because more than ever before researchers are telling the public stories about their work – not just the conclusions, but the methods and ideas, and the trials and tribulations involved in the field. I grew up reading books about science that were written for the general public, and back then I could have only dreamed of today’s online catalogue of scientific writing and media, created by a generation of academics that are finding new ways to bring the public closer to their research, their ideas, and their stories.


Education Fort Lewis College - Bachelor Degree in Art
Goodson Recreation Center - Drawing Instructor 2016, 2017 - Centennial, CO
Next Gallery - Remnants & Retrospective 2022 - Lakewood, CO
Southglenn Public Library - Faces and Places 2017 - Centennial, CO
Kanon Collective - Dark Heart Show 2022 - Lakewood, CO
Colorado Gallery of the Arts - This is Colorado 2016 - Littleton, CO - Juror’s Choice Award
FLC Art Gallery - 54th Annual Juried Exhibition Show 2015 - Durango, CO - Honorable Mention
Next Gallery - Mixed Emotions 2022 - Lakewood, CO
Next Gallery - Winter Art Market 2021 - Lakewood, CO
40 West Arts Gallery - Small Works Show - 2020 - Lakewood, CO
Voyage Denver - Meet the Artist 2021 - Online
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Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe is part treasure hunt, part wilderness adventure, and all heart.
—Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of Refugee
A tale of adventure, full of mystery and suspense.
—Robert Beatty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Serafina and the Black Cloak
A masterful debut. Cricket is my new hero, brave and funny and full of heart. Jo Watson Hackl’s new middle-grade novel has art, poetry, and adventure—and I couldn’t put it down.
—Augusta Scattergood, author of Glory Be
An un-put-downable story about Cricket, a brave, talented and fiercely determined girl, who is not only woods smart but people savvy, and, who, whether you like or not, Dear Reader, is going to steal your heart.
—Tommy Hays, author of What I Came to Tell You
An unforgettable story about a gutsy girl who will steal your heart.
—New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, Kathleen Glasgow
Like my childhood favorite From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe is an art mystery, but with a Southern twist. Instead of running away to NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, our heroine Cricket Overland hides out in a tree house on the edge of a lumber ghost town that holds the clues to discovering The Bird Room her mother has been looking for for years. This touching coming-of-age novel mixes Southern dialect, woodscraft, puzzle-solving, and art into a wonderful adventure that also delicately addresses the topic of mental illness. Highly recommended!
—Jill Hendrix, Owner of Fiction Addiction
Luminous, funny, sparkling and bright as stream water, Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe caught my breath with its beguiling voice, its magical logic, and its tender exploration of what art can mean to those who are lost. This is a book that keeps veering left when you expect it to go right, and one that—in the end—lands you in a different and sweeter place than the one you started in. I adored it.
—Jodi Lynn Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight at the Electric
A brilliant, utterly absorbing debut. I couldn’t get enough of Cricket’s adventures and Jo Watson Hackl does a remarkable job bringing this vibrant character and her world to life. Totally unputdownable.
—Carrie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of The Map to Everywhere
A heart-warming coming-of-age story.
—Kirby Larson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Hattie Big Sky
Jo Watson Hackl has created a singular voice in Cricket, her young heroine, and that voice propels us into a poignant story filled with suspense and mystery.
—Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author
Jo Hackl starts Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe with a narrator named Cricket who saves the life of a cricket she names Charlene, and then it’s a full-steam-ahead, no-holds-barred, crazy, magical, hilarious, scary, thought-provoking adventure where Past and Present overlap in ways that Cricket–even with her precociousness–might have never foreseen. Here’s another great young narrator wise, empathetic, and brave beyond her years, with a voice as unique as an Electric City, Mississippi doogaloo.
—George Singleton, award-winning author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie


November Theatre and Columbia University School of the Arts presents
The American Premiere of:
Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp
Written by Blake Brooker
Music by David Rhymer
A nasty musical about forgetting.
May 8th and 9th 8PM, 10th 7PM
@ Medicine Show Theatre, 549 W 52nd St. (between 10th and 11th), 3rd Floor
Tickets: $15 full price ticket, $10 Students/Seniors, Free for Columbia University Students (subject to availability).
Since the war ended, the Colonel has been hiding in South America, while in Germany, Ilsa has continued to entertain men in her customary way. After decades apart, these two lovable Nazis go on a journey to find each other, by following the trail of top-secret materials left by Hitler himself. On their path of love, they find one angry man who has been fired from his teaching position for his anti-Semitic views. Is he their next great hope, or just a stupid dope?
Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp is a satirical musical comedy that mashes up American B-movies, European Cabaret and Revisionist History. This celebrated Canadian cult classic was created by one of the country’s most adventurous playwrights, and most original musical composers.
Director: Michael Scholar, Jr.
Musical Director: David Rhymer
Choreographer: Allison Plamondon
Starring: Onalea Gilbertson, Jeff Moulton and Jon L Peacock
Musicians: David Rhymer and Trevor New
Producer: Lawrence Haynes
Associate Producer: Sipei Fang
Production Stage Manager: Jessi Cotter
Costume Design: Karle Meyers
Set Design: Christopher and Justin Swader
Lighting Design: Alex Fabozzi
Photographer: Samantha Burkardt
Dialect Coach: Blake Segal
Lawrence Haynes, firstname.lastname@example.org, (203) 770-2904
3 April 2015
On Good Friday I will be portraying Jesus in a Passion Play,
presented by St. Peter's Church, at 54th Street and Lexington in Manhattan.
Check out the trailer to Living the Dream, a webseries premiering this fall!
I play the role of Daniel, the visionary director of Romeo & Juliet.
28 March 2015
Instant Shakespeare Company is presenting the first folio reading of
Taming of the Shrew at a local library branch in Manhattan.
I will be reading the part of Lucentio, who woos Kate's sister, Bianca.
More info TBA!
Jon L Peacock
Equity Membership Candidate


photo by Dalton Hobbs
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kimberly is a native Floridian. She has an MA in English from Florida Gulf Coast University and an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst's Poet's and Writer's Program. Her stories have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and have appeared in PANK, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her story "Baba Yaga's House of Forgotten Things" won a 2013 Best of the Net Award. "One For the Crow' was included in Ellen Datlow's Recommended Horror List of 2019.
Her debut story collection, Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart, published by Burrow Press, is a winner of the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Rumpus Book Club Selection.
PRAISE FOR WORM FIDDLING NOCTURNE…
“Stories pulsing with imagination and incarnate joy… Lojewski too, as Padgett Powell said of Barry Hannah, has her ear to the oracle hole in the ground.” –JEFF PARKER, author of Ovenman
“Magic realism meets bildungsroman… In just a few pages, Lojewski creates deeply imaginative and textured worlds. However mundane the plights of her characters—a crush on a boy, a tense mother-daughter relationship—those surreal environments make magic of the moments.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Channeled through the swampy terrain of fairy tale and folklore, these stories of misfits and runaways will open and break your heart by their searing and unsentimental honesty.” –JAMES BROCK, author of Nearly Florida
“Delightfully subversive… Often teetering on the boundary between dream and nightmare, this collection is a satisfying and eerie journey into wild realms.” –FOREWORD REVIEWS
In this wildly imaginative debut collection, whimsical fairy tales of princesses and farm girls turn dark, and dark tales of mistreated sideshow freaks turn whimsical. An itinerant marionette falls prey to a lusty mesmerist. An alcoholic camp counselor is haunted by her dead best friend. A juvenile delinquent languishes in a boot camp run by authoritarian grandmas. Be they human monsters or reluctant moth-girls, the outcasts that populate these eleven compelling stories all long for escape, community, acceptance, and self-discovery.
IN THE PRESS
"Magical realism meets bildungsroman.
In just a few pages, Lojewski creates deeply imaginative and textured worlds. However mundane the plights of her characters—a crush on a boy, a tense mother-daughter relationship—those surreal environments make magic of the moments.
Eleven enchanted and enchanting stories of change."
- Fri, Feb 21World Golf Village Renaissance ResortFeb 21, 2020, 10:15 AM – 11:15 AMWorld Golf Village Renaissance Resort, 500 S Legacy Trail, St. Augustine, FL 32092, USAFlorida Book Award Winners: Researching, Crafting, Submitting and Promoting Award-Winning Fiction. With Tara Lynn Masih and Gale Massey
- Thu, Oct 24UT Plant HallOct 24, 2019, 1:00 PMUT Plant Hall, 374 UT University Dr, Tampa, FL 33606, USAA panel of authors discuss their award-winning works.
- Fri, Dec 071123 Thomasville RdDec 07, 2018, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST1123 Thomasville Rd, 1123 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USAMidtown Reader is very excited to welcome author Kimberly Lojewski for a reading and signing of her debut short story collection.


July is considered the most patriotic month in America because we celebrate the birth of our nation on July 4th each year. This month actually coincides with an important time on the biblical calendar known as the 17th of Tammuz–also called the fast of Tammuz. Most Christians have never heard of this day because following … Continue reading The Wall Has Been Breached
JP MORGAN, ICEBERGS AND AMERICA: WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
Most people, even children, are familiar with the sinking of the Titanic, which occurred in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 in the chilly North Atlantic. But did you know that the RMS Titanic was owned by an American? Yes, it was registered as a British ship and built in Belfast, Ireland, which … Continue reading JP MORGAN, ICEBERGS AND AMERICA: WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
It’s Time to Face the Lions
“For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,” 1 Thessalonians 5:5-6. As children of the light and of the day, I urge you to pay … Continue reading It’s Time to Face the Lions
A Titanic Tale
"I heard a graphic account of how the Titanic up-ended herself and remained poised like some colossal nightmare of a fish, her tail high in the air, her nose deep in the water, until she dived finally from human sight." This is a quote from Arthur Rostron–the captain of the rescue ship which saved hundreds … Continue reading A Titanic Tale
Jesus: The First and the Last
It’s Passover season and this year I wanted to share something truly amazing about Jesus, the Savior of the World. I enjoy learning about the original languages of the Bible (Hebrew and Greek). A few years ago I learned something really cool and I want to share it with you! Did you know that the … Continue reading Jesus: The First and the Last
What can we learn from the sinking of the Lusitania?
The long-forgotten history of the Lusitania has been at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Ireland for over 100 years. Most people have little knowledge of what happened to this infamous luxury liner on May 7, 1915, when 1,198 people lost their lives. Just three years after the Titanic sank, this beautiful, … Continue reading What can we learn from the sinking of the Lusitania?
THE GREAT ALIEN DECEPTION
Today’s blogpost is going to be a little “out of this world.” It’s not something Christians write about often. Most leave it to the science fiction writers and don’t think twice about it. But, isn’t this how the enemy works? He doesn’t want us delving into matters of this nature because he’d rather you be … Continue reading THE GREAT ALIEN DECEPTION
The Seven Year Famine: Lessons from Joseph
I’ve been thinking about cows lately—you heard that right- COWS. I know, it’s kind of weird, but it’s true nonetheless. It happened at Christmastime when I’m usually distracted by lights, food and gift-giving. But even though these things consumed most of my attention, I was still hearing the still small voice of the Holy Spirit … Continue reading The Seven Year Famine: Lessons from Joseph
Lessons from the Church of Smyrna
As Christmas rolls around every year, we are often thinking of gifts–who to buy for and what to buy are the big questions. Recently I was shopping and I began thinking about the gifts Jesus received when he was born. Matthew 2 tells us that the Wise Men (Magi) journeyed from the East to find … Continue reading Lessons from the Church of Smyrna
STEP ONTO THE HIGH-WIRE
In the last year, the focus of my writing has shifted. While I still write about issues affecting Israel and the United States, the Holy Spirit has led me to place particular emphasis on the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has affected bible prophecy and the trajectory of our world. Never in our history has … Continue reading STEP ONTO THE HIGH-WIRE


Such ideas were founded on [Jean Jacques] Rousseau’s conviction that women were innately passive and incapable of systematic thought. […] “Woman observes,” Rousseau wrote, “man reasons.”
The search for abstract and speculative truths, for principles and axioms in science, for all that tends to wide generalization, is beyond a woman’s grasp; their studies should be thoroughly practical…. For the works of genius are beyond her reach, and she has neither the accuracy nor the attention for success in the exact sciences. As for the physical sciences, to decide the relations between living creatures and the laws of nature is the task of that sex which is more active and enterprising, which sees more things, that sex which is possessed of greater strength and is more accustomed to the exercise of that strength.
With these words Rousseau—the champion of freedom—constructed an iron cage. In a world where “great men” would increasingly use elaborate systems of scientific categorization to underwrite the verifiable “truth” of human inequality, woman was defined as inherently unfit to render such judgements. With “works of genius… beyond her reach,” she must be excluded from the erudition that would be repeatedly employed to deny her any civil or intellectual standing in the world beyond the home. She could be the named, but she could never be the namer.
Ewen & Ewen, Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality, 366-67.