Happily ever after does not mean a life without struggles. “The Season of the Curse” is the story of what happened a few years later. Written and illustrated by, me, Jonas Karlsson.
The old witch smiled to herself, the whole village was hers, she had its future in her hand. No more dreams, no more laughter here she thought to herself while her newborn curse spread like a disease. Chasing everyone from the oldest widow to the youngest child, not even a single pet could escape. She enjoyed it with an evil passion that she hadn’t felt in ages, she had cursed them all. Finally, the happiness belonged to her. She raised her wand in the air and a green mist surrounded her and suddenly she vanished. It took her back to her dark enchanted cottage deep among sprawling roots and murky old trees. It would soon be a castle here, she had it all planned out. She would be the new queen and everyone in the realm would bow to her.
Meanwhile, as she was busy laughing like an old crow, 4 good friends in the cursed village was gathering around an old book of theirs. They all have had their own spectacular adventures as children, cursed many times back and forth, which made them immune I assume. You might have heard of them because they were well known in the kingdom. The book was their own journals filled with important scribbles worth to remember, and they just knew that somewhere it was a page about how to break a curse. If the witch would know this she would be everything else than happy, but in this instant she leaned back in her old rocking chair made of old bones, taking a big sip of the darkest blend of tea there ever was.
Red, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Jack agreed on that the best way to break the curse was to do it together. The curse was a seasonal curse which meant that it was connected which all the four seasons. In the old book, they could read that the only way to break it is to break it in pieces. Cinderella read out loud “Each piece is Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. It can only be broken by a person born in the same season” It was of great luck since the 4 old friends were all born in different seasons and would together cover the whole year.
Red was the first one out because she was born during a cold winter blizzard almost identical to the current snowstorm increasing in power. To break the winter curse she had to sacrifice a piece of her most beloved belongings which was a piece of her red cloak, once upon a time made by her dear grandmother. She really hoped their book would be right as she with great hope spoke out load “I break you old curse” as the cold wind took the piece of her cloak. Nothing of big difference really happened but that was a good sign since an old curse like this was designed to make the “curse breaker” believe it didn’t work.
While the evil witch in silence worked on her evil plans it soon becomes spring. Snow transformed to snowdrops and flowers raised through the soil. Cinderella was ready to break her part. Her most beloved object was her golden slippers. As she quietly left one of them next to a wild bush, never be found again, she uttered “I break you old curse”. A few butterflies were flying past in a playful pattern and the 4 friends took it as a sign that the curse now was only half as strong.
When the open meadows turned green and the summer arrived Jack decided that he would break his part during the night of midsummer. It was clear that midsummer was the most magical night of the whole year. Maybe would their curse-breaking also be more powerful than any other day? They didn’t have anything to lose. Jack had a bucket of milk that was from his beloved friend and companion “Milky White”. It had been the last bucket of milk she ever produced, by magic preserved to last for everyone’s need during all these years. She was now very old and everyone in the village loved her. Jack sat at their favourite spot, he poured out the milk in a circle as he sobbed “I break you old curse”.
As the pumpkins grow big the autumn had arrived and everyone was excited that the curse would hopefully soon be broken. The witch had been on everyone’s nerve for so long time now, and the joy was long gone since the forest had turned dark and scary. No one dared to walk there anymore as wild creatures had been taking over the other time so friendly walking paths. Rapunzel was still brave enough to run to a nearby hill. She could see the old tower that was a part of her old story. It was the day before Halloween and the forest was burning in red and orange colours. Rapunzel had a scissor in her hand, her hair was her favourite object since it once had saved her from the tower she once had been trapped in. With a quick snip and an extra snap just to be sure, her hair fell to the ground. It was taken by the wind and she screamed out “I break you old curse”.
The hair started to sparkle and was transformed into a cloud of golden dust. The trees were shaking and the dust soon covered the whole forest. Rapunzel could hear the horrible which screaming of anguish in the distance. She got weaker and weaker and green smoke was lifted from each corner of the kingdom. Her magic vanished and disappeared forever. The curse was broken and from that moment, daydreams where once again dreamed, hope and joy overflowed each and others mind.
In the old book of scribbles, it was that day written, “A curse can always be broken”.
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On Sunday, August 24th, Nick Schuurman finished our summer series in Beasley park by reflecting on the book “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard. Here are his notes from his Blog for those of you that missed the Night.
I remember when I first read through this book.
It was about this time of year, on the Labour Day long weekend, four or five years ago now, and a few of my old friends and I were sitting around campfire near Lake Erie. I had slowly made it about half-way through, and I remember what I was reading that day – not because I usually remember those sorts of things, but because what I read was, for whatever reason, or set of reasons, profoundly astonishing and beautiful to me in that moment.
I also remember it because I must have ended up reading the following paragraphs aloud to four or five people that day:
“[They] studied a single grass plant, winter rye. They let it grow in a greenhouse for four months; then they gingerly spirited away the soil – under microscopes, I imagine – and counted and measured all the roots and root hairs. I four months the plant had set forth 378 miles of roots – that’s about three miles a day – in 14 million distinct roots. This is mighty impressive, but when they get down to the root hairs, I boggle completely. In those same four months, the rye plan created 14 billion root hairs, and those little strands placed end-to-end just about wouldn’t quit. In a single cubic inch of soil, the length of the root hairs totaled 6000 miles.”
Not everyone shared my fascination with that little biology lesson, to say the least. To be fair, I wasn’t sure, and I’m still not entirely sure what exactly it was about those pages, and those details that stirred something inside of me.
Some background to the book: While in university, Annie Dillard wrote her Master’s thesis on Henry David Thoreau’s memoir, Walden, which Thoreau wrote during and after a stay of two years, two months, and two days alone in a cabin he built in the forest of Concord, Massachusetts. Published in 1854, it was a book about simplicity, life in the woods, civil disobedience and self-reliance.
A century-or-so later, in 1971, Dillard, who was at that point finished her graduate degree, suffered a near-fatal bout of pneumonia. She decided, like Thoreau, to move away from what seemed like the centre of things, to a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. While there, she began (like Thoreau in this regard also) to keep a journal about what she saw and experienced exploring the landscape surrounding her cabin.
Here is how one writer described her writing during that time:
“The journal soon ran to over 20 volumes. She transposed the entries onto thousands of note cards and then, for eight months, wrote the note cards up into a book. Towards the end of the eight months, Dillard was working for up to 16 hours a day. She lived mainly on coffee and Coke, and lost 30 pounds in weight. The plants in her house died”
In some ways (though Dillard has repeatedly and firmly shrugged off the classification) the book that resulted bears similarity to other nature writing. Its author writes at length in one chapter, for example, about the various forms of clouds and the phenomena associated with them. She devotes numerous paragraphs to the habits of several insects, and elsewhere discusses, among other things, the history of invasive species of birds and how butterflies taste with their feet. All of which, I realize, probably does not seem like something that would captivate a reader’s attention, unless you are really into those sorts of things, and I am into those sorts of things, mind you, but probably not enough to read a nearly-300 page volume about them, under normal circumstances.
So what on earth captivated me when I read this book? What Eudora Welty wrote in her 1974 New York Times review of the book explains a bit of it, I think. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, she argued, “is about seeing.” It is, if I can expand on her thought, about an attentiveness to both the beauty and terror of the world, and the senses of awe, sadness and hope that result.
For Dillard, these glimpses into the natural world were acts of devotion – not towards the things themselves (though she has at times been accused of such), but towards something larger and even more beautiful and powerful. Her favorite childhood book, she writes, was A Field Guide to Ponds and Streams. Looking back, she compares it to The Book of Common Prayer. Inasmuch as Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a book about the natural world, then, it is also a book about what lies beneath the surface of things, and above it.
Dillard discovered what would become her project’s central metaphor when she read a book called Space and Sight, which recounted experiences of some of the first people to have received cataract surgery. Effectively blind, they underwent these operations and were given vision for the first time. Having been unable to see for their whole life, most of them had no frame of reference or language to describe what they saw.
Of one woman who experienced this radically sharpened sense, the author of the old medical journal wrote, “the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen how an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed, ‘Oh God! How beautiful!’”
Another little girl, suddenly un-blinded, stood in an orchard, speechless at the sight of daylight flooding over the peaches, until she broke the silence, pointing to what she called “the tree with all the lights in it.”
The “tree with all the lights in it” becomes Dillard’s way of speaking about her experience along the creek in Virginia. Something inside of her is awakened as she spends her time walking through the woods, looking out the window of her cabin and sitting along the water. It is as if she is un-blinded to the beauty and brokenness of the universe, and to the great Mystery that spun things into being.
“Beauty and grace,” she writes, “are performed whether or not we will sense them. The least we can do is try to be there… so that creation need not play to an empty house.”
That said, paying attention to the natural world around us is at times anything but idyllic. Dillard also writes, as one reviewer has listed, about parasitic insects, killer whales tearing apart sea lions, and a mother octopus that lays thousands upon thousands of eggs, all of which but one will die.
Put otherwise, in the language of another author who has studied her work, Dillard tries to find language for the reality that “the natural world both reveals and obscures God.”
Paying attention to what lies in the woods and water around us will, in other words, expose the staggering glory of creation that the Hebrew Psalmist speaks of, as well as what the Apostle Paul describes as its groaning – the violence, terror and corruption of the universe. As much as Dillard is looked to as a nature writer, then, she has also become known as someone who has committed herself to the consideration of God in light of suffering and evil.
I spent some time these past few weeks trying to pin down what it was that caused this book to resonate so deeply with me when I first read it. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a beautiful book, but a difficult one, which took me a very long time to finish. It seems to lack a narrative, or any sense of continuity for that matter, and readers are prone to both getting lost and losing interest in the minutiae of Dillard’s subject matter.
At that point in my life, though, I was weary, and weary of the language with which I had grown used to thinking and talking about God. As necessary as I understood and still understand they are, I was tired of debate, lectures and lesson plans. As much as I wanted to get at the truth of things, I wanted also to get lost in the joy, goodness and incredible complexity of it all. I wanted, in all my attempts to understand what little I was able to of God, to be left in awe at something much bigger than I could wrap my head around, at something that left me surprised and experiencing delight.
As strange as it sounds, a paragraph about the astounding roots of a single rye plant allowed me that, if only for a little moment. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was for me, in that tired and messy season of my life, a small doorway into a world of wonder. Even in its consideration of the darker, more sinister elements of creation, the book meant a lot to me when I first read it. Dillard didn’t brush these things off, but kept looking, and kept writing, and kept them there at the centre of things. She described them in detail, while maintaining a sense of the sacredness of life, and the presence of God in the midst of it all.
She lost herself in the great show of things, and I lost myself for a little while in her description of it.
“After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place,” she writes, “the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagance, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”


This document is one of three in a compendium of sexual and reproductive health guidance and resources for child welfare jurisdictions from a national work group convened by the CSSP. The goal of this document is to provide information and resources to workers to help them effectively support youth (ages 10 to 21) on sexual and reproductive health issues. The other two documents in this series include a policy and practice framework for child welfare leaders and policy makers and practical guidance meant specifically for use by the youth themselves. Both this document and the one designed for youth are aligned with the recommendations on current best practices around sexual and reproductive health policy and practice contained in the policy framework. Includes LGBTQ+ considerations and resources.


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A mysterious young man suffering a rare blood disease that colors his skin blue meets a young woman who looks beyond his unusual appearance as she struggles with dark secrets of her own.
Plot Summary:A mysterious young man, called Blue after the color of his skin, leaves his isolated mountain home and enters a small Appalachian town. Distrusted and feared by the townspeople he encounters, he meets a kind-hearted young woman dealing with her own dark family secrets who sees beyond his skin into the deep and gentle soul underneath.


Building upon the foundational skills learned in our TK and Kindergarten, our primary program features small class sizes, but students enjoy opportunities to join with the student body across our school community. In first and second grades, students strengthen foundational skills to support academic success. Students also develop socially and learn how to listen attentively, actively participate, collaborate with peers, and become organized for success throughout their education. In third grade, students grow increasingly independent academically and socially as they expand their knowledge and grow as Catholic Learners.
The student experience is expanded by community service projects, our PEAK Family program, and enrichment classes in the arts.. Primary classes benefit from weekly visits to the school library that promote literacy and a love for reading, and they enjoy field trips, school wide assemblies, and visits from guest speakers that enhance the curriculum. Additionally, after-school Chess for Kids enrichment is available.
We offer various sports programs such as Biddy Golf, Junior Dunkers basketball and Track for students in 1st-4th grade.Academics
Hands-on math instruction in the primary grades solidifies the foundation for understanding mathematical concepts, critical thinking, and problem solving. A spiraling curriculum that increases in complexity provides the opportunity for continued practice and mastery of mathematical concepts.
Small group English language arts instruction meets individual needs of each and every child, focusing on phonics, oral reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, grammar and writing. Students also participate in the Renaissance Learning Accelerated Reader program and weekly visits to the library to develop a love of reading.
Religious education classes, prayer, and attendance at monthly Mass as a school community provide a foundation in faith formation. Students in each grade lead morning prayer and participate in a First Friday Mass.
Preparation for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Communion begins in first grade, and students receive both sacraments in second grade.
An introduction to and study of earth, life, and physical science is supported through a curriculum aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Primary students study plants and animals, rocks and minerals, the solar system, weather, forces and motion. The science curriculum comes alive through field trips and guest speakers.
Primary students learn about the world around us. Students learn about people and places around the world, important historical figures, life long ago and today, and enjoy an introduction to government and economics. A focus on geography and map skills is included and reinforced through participation in monthly community service projects.
Our Enrichment program fosters the development of the whole child and supports the social-emotional growth of our students. From yoga and music to arts, Enrichment sessions provide every child an opportunity to grow in self-awareness. Volunteer art docents provide a rich opportunity for students to study artists in a variety of genres and create their own masterpieces to share with classmates and families.
Our fine arts program allows students to develop an appreciation of music and art and express their creativity. Music instruction includes singing and an introduction to music theory, including note-reading and playing instruments. Volunteer art docents provide a rich opportunity for students to study artists in a variety of genres and create their own masterpieces to share with classmates and families.
Regular physical education classes provide students with the opportunity to develop gross motor skills, work as a team, and learn the importance of exercise and a healthy lifestyle.
An introduction to basic computer skills is integrated with a reinforcement of the curriculum. Students learn about the parts of a computer and the importance of digital citizenship. 1:1 devices are used to differentiate learning and connect students to the world.
I believe that children learn best when they are in a nurturing and supportive learning environment. When children are rooted in kindness and shared respect, they are ready to embark together on their learning journey! I feel it is important to provide opportunities for the students to work independently and collaboratively and to demonstrate their understanding of concepts in multiple ways.
SVES is a wonderful community where faculty and parents are committed to the academic, social/ emotional, and spiritual growth of the students. In this faith-filled environment, friendships between students at all grade levels flourish. It is heart-warming to witness eighth graders giving high-fives to kindergartners, and middle school students stop what they are doing to help a first grader who fell on the yard. The students support and care for one another.
I fell in love with reading as a first grader! I remember the first time I read a short chapter book completely on my own at home, and I could not wait to get to school the next day to tell my teacher. She was so proud of me and made me feel so special. I think about that a lot as a teacher; the importance of making every child’s achievements feel acknowledged and valued.
Reading is my passion! I was a reader as a child and still love to read as an adult. It is my goal to help the children at SVES realize their potential as lifelong readers.
I feel blessed to have been employed at St. Vincent de Paul Elementary School for the last 21 years. I was hired as the Learning Center Director and now fill the roles of Librarian and Reading Resource Teacher. It is my privilege to go to work every day with a group of amazing teachers and support staff members. St. Vincent's provides its students with the foundational skills needed to succeed in high school and beyond. Having sent three children through SVES and SVHS, I can say without reservations that I wholeheartedly believe in the mission and philosophy of both our schools.
My love of reading started in elementary school with the Nancy Drew Series. After reading the first book, The Secret of the Old Clock, I was hooked--hooked on Nancy Drew and hooked on reading! Books gave me the ability to see the world and meet new people. I wish I could remember who suggested that book to me, because I should have said thank you a thousand times over. Elementary school is where I became a lifelong reader!
First we work, then we play!
I love the family and community feeling. This is my fourth year working full time at SVES. My two daughters attended SVES and SVHS.
When I attended Catholic grade school in San Francisco, I played on the 4th grade kickball team. I still love to watch the kids here play kickball.


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Sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians, we celebrate our library media programs in April. Here in Fitzgerald Public Schools, we are fortunate to have library media specialists in every building, elementary, middle and high school. Pat Pulis, my esteemed predecessor, wrote the article which follows the wonderful picture of the five of us:
We are very fortunate in the Fitzgerald Public School District to have a full-time librarian in each of our schools. Libraries are at the heart of the learning experience for almost 44 million elementary, middle and high school students in schools with library media centers nationwide.1
Each April marks the celebration of school libraries. Now in its 25th year, the focus is on the importance of the contributions made by school library programs and staff to the overall education and achievement of students.
At the elementary level, our media specialists promote reading by taking part in activities such as March is Reading Month, sponsor book fair(s) each year, teach keyboarding skills to students and much more.
At the middle and high school levels, the media specialists also provide activities to encourage reading for enjoyment. In addition, they manage the school-wide reading test program and help students with projects and homework.
All of our media specialists are involved with collaborating with teachers to instruct students in research skills and the in use of all of the valuable resources that the media centers have to offer. Also, our media specialists have worked with parents who have provided additional support to our programs.
Whether it is the Bag-a-Book program, sponsoring a visiting author/illustrator, Accelerated Reader, assistance with Google Docs and cloud computing, or recommending the latest “must-read” books, our trained and certified media specialists provide a wealth of educational experiences for Fitzgerald students!
1 U.S. Department of Education, Center for Education Statistics, The Status of Public and Private School Library Media Centers in the United States: 1999-2000, March 2004.


As an Occupational Therapist who actively engaged in the recommendation of seated-mobility equipment for more than 20 years, Diane Ward synthesized her knowledge, experience and insights into this book to help bridge the gap between therapists’ understanding of clients’ needs and the assistive technology suppliers’ knowledge of wheelchairs and seated-mobility equipment.
As an Occupational Therapist, Diane’s therapeutic focus is client-centered with the goal of optimizing clients’ potential for health, independent function, and meaningful activity. The achievement of these goals demanded that her clients have seated-mobility equipment that fit their lifestyles, their environments, and their bodies.
In Prescriptive Seating, Diane presents some ground-breaking materials that are designed to increase the seating team’s prescriptive certainty when recommending seated-mobility equipment.
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Prescriptive Seating includes:
• Observations about how human function is affected by sitting and the chair.
• A framework for uniform terminology to describe the sitter’s needs and equipment.
• A discussion of the clinical ramifications of seated-mobility equipment parameters.
Prescriptive Seating is essential for the seating novice – providing a foundation for the development of prescriptive reasoning strategies. It is useful for occupational and physical therapists who already work with seating teams, offering them the tools to more clearly communicate their clients’ seated-mobility needs. For equipment specialists and third-party funding agents, this book provides insight into the prescriptive rationale that ensures successful selection of seated-mobility equipment.
Contents 206 pages, index, 54 charts and illustrations
Part I -Theory: Prescriptive Seating as a Therapeutic Process
1. Perspectives That Mobilize the Human Potential
A Philosophical Overview
Evolutions In Prescriptive Seating
Evolutions in Seating Assessment
Prescriptive Events and Reasoning Processes
2. Prescriptive Relationships Between the Sitter and the Seat
Characteristics of Seated Existence
The Domains of Prescriptive Fit
3. A Uniform Approach to Seating Terminology
The Need for Standard Terminology
Distinguishing the Sitter From the Seat
Part II – Application: Selection of Equipment Parameters
4. Angular Specifications of the Human Support Surfaces
System Tilt Specifications, Seat to Back Angle Specifications,
Angular Specifications of the Supports for the Head and Extremities
5. Linear Specifications of the Human Support Surfaces
Seat Size and Linear Placement, Back Support Size and Linear Placement,
Head Support Size and Linear Placement, Arm Support Size and Linear Placement,
Lower Leg Support Size and Linear Placement, Foot Support Size and Linear Placement
6. Interfacing Surface Specifications
Contact Areas, Interfacing Shape, Interfacing Pressure,
and Temperature Interactions, Durability, Weight, and Size
7. Mobility Base Specifications
Angular Configuration and Modifiability, Power Source, Mobility Base Size,
Linear Relationships Between the Seating System and Mobility Base,
Mobility Base Weight, Wheel and Tire Specifications,
Foldability and the Ease/Speed of Disassembly/Assembly, Frame Rigidity and Flexibility
Book Review by Karen A. Bena, MS, OTR/L
American Journal of Occupational Therapy, November/December 1996, Volume 50, No 10, p 914
This book contains the fundamental theory and application of prescriptive seating, which has not been presented in other texts. The purpose of the book is to (a) support seating specialists in practicing with excellence in their daily work, (b) encourage researchers to discover more economical and reliable methods for clinically evaluating clients’ seating needs, and (c) inspire seated mobility manufacturers to continue developing products that prescriptively respond to sitters’ individual needs.
Part I discusses a theoretical frame of reference for the practice of prescriptive seating as a therapeutic activity and introduces a uniform approach to seating terminology. The author presents a philosophical overview, evolutions in prescriptive seating and seating assessments, and reasoning processes. Her approach emphasizes the need to focus on and evaluate the client’s seating potential. The seating assessment is an interactive process that involves interview; physical, cognitive, and emotional evaluation; and simulation of proposed equipment. This part is well presented and complemented by easy-to-follow charts and diagrams. Chapter 3, A Uniform Approach to Seating Terminology, is hard to conceptualize in one reading. The discussion of the planes and axis of motion is confusing and difficult to understand without having the clinical experience of prescriptive seating to visualize these concepts. For prescriptive seating team members to use this uniform approach, they need to read the text and practice the concepts together. The illustrations are helpful in demonstrating the points, but time is needed to digest the information for application in the second part of the book.
Part II applies the prescriptive seating theory and uniform terminology from Part I to the selection of equipment to meet clients’ individual needs. All body segment position options are discussed individually then as an interactive whole, with consideration given to environmental demands. The author’s knowledge and experience of prescriptive seating is evident through her clinical examples of equipment and how the seating system functions as a whole. Case studies and photos of actual client seating systems would have fit well in this section, unless the author plans to use these in volume II.
Overall, this text is a great resource, provides a foundation for professionals working in prescriptive seating and for students interested in learning the basics, and establishes a comprehensive framework and uniform terminology. The illustrations, references, and suggested readings in each chapter complement the information presented by the author. This book will enhance the occupational therapist’s skills in helping the seating team incorporate the client’s physical, cognitive, and psychosocial needs and accent the clients’ role in the prescriptive seating team.
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Congratulations to Austin Nikirk who finished up the first portion of her Kolbe Fellowship at Gettysburg College last week. Over the Summer, she was housed at the college to conduct research on the art song of one of the first American female composers to be performed by major ensembles, Amy Beach. During that time, she met with her mentor, Dr. William O'Hara, on a weekly basis, working together to formulate a plan for her research. Last week, after months of in-depth harmonic, formal, and poetic analyses of seven of Beach's art songs, and even a trip to the University of New Hampshire's library to study Beach's original scores, Austin presented on her topic in culmination of the first part of her research. She plans to continue researching leading up to a lecture-recital she plans to give in the Spring of 2019. To read more about her research, find her Kolbe Summer '18 Fellows profile by clicking the button below!


Event calendar courtesy of fla-keys.com
The Tourism & Development Council of the Florida Keys
Women and girls from around the world are to meet on the playing field for hard-fought sporting action. Each year, nearly 30 teams from across the United States, Mexico, Central America, Sweden and India participate.
Each year we try to bring you a future star of the classical music world. We also encourage young people to attend (at no charge) and hear a young musical prodigy right here in the Keys. Stay tuned for further information. Show starts @ 7:30 PM at San Pablo Catholic Church, 550 122nd St., (MM53). Tickets to be available online.
Key West Friends of the Library will welcome acclaimed author and critic, Edmund White, to the podium at the Key West Theater, 512 Eaton St. Admission is free. His talk begins promptly at 6:00 p.m. Seating starts at 5:30 on a first come first served basis. Edmund White has authored dozens of books including fiction, memoir, biography, drama, and essays. He has gained notoriety for his biographies and autobiographical works Additionally, White's many essays have appeared in major publications. Th
Each year we try to bring you a future star of the classical music world. We also encourage young people to attend (at no charge) and hear a young musical prodigy right here in the Keys. Stay tuned for further information. All Islamorada Concerts are at Island Community Church @ 7:30 PM, 83250 Overseas Highway, Islamorada, FL 33036 (MM83). Tickets to be available online.
"1776" is the Tony Award winning musical which brings history to life as it dramatizes America's contentious Founding Fathers and their determination to do the right thing for a fledgling nation. Engaging, witty and passionate, this Broadway musical takes audiences back to the long, hot Philadelphia summer of 1776 when John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia bid members of the Second Continental Congress to proclaim independence from the ty
This sharply funny and evocative exploration of time was the flat our hit of the 2016 Contemporary American Theatre Festival in the 25th season. The play centers on four women who bonded as protesters one night in jail in their youth. Through the vagaries of love, careers, children, and lost causes, the women reunite once a year for a photo shoot, chronicling their changing selves. But when these private photos have the potential to become part of a public exhibit, mutiny erupts and relationship
Outstanding in the Field Travels to the Florida Keys! Stock Island -- the farthest isle of Florida's Lower Keys across the strait from Key West just five miles from the end of the road at the archipelago's southernmost tip -- will be the site for an open-air Outstanding in the Field dinner on Tuesday, January 23. Hosted in collaboration with Lost Kitchen Supper Club, Roostica and Hogfish, the table-to-sea dining event is the traveling restaurant without walls' first visit to the Florida Keys. Pe
Top chefs and restaurateurs display culinary creativity and the Keys' indigenous cuisine in a flavorful schedule of events for food lovers. Highlights include the lively "Old Town Uncorked," neighborhood wine strolls, food and wine pairings, intriguing seminars, winemaker dinner series and a grand tasting.
The Key West Art & Historical Society and Isle Cook Key West have teamed up to present a picnic-style Conch heritage dinner and co-benefit for Grimal Grove prepared by acclaimed chefs Martha Hubbard and Dave Furman. Staged on the grounds of the Key West Lighthouse & Keeper's Quarters, the picnic features a wine and appetizer pairing, a variety of classic Key West/Conch recipes using produce from Grimal Grove, and a Molletes cook-off competition coordinated by Key West Food Tours creator Analise
Presented by the Islamorada Fishing Club, the event is the second leg this year of the three-pronged Florida Keys Gold Cup Championship series and typically draws a field of up to 30 boat teams of elite sport fishermen. Kickoff is 1/24 and fishing day is 1/25. A total cash payout for a full field at the IFC Sailfish Tournament could reach $30,000.
A chance meeting on a train platform is the spark that sets off this meticulous examination of human relationships. Mike Mulligan returns under the direction of Dennis Zacek, joined by acclaimed Chicago actress Dana Black. On its 2015 premiere, Ben Brantley of the New York Times called the play "shimmeringly and satisfyingly elusive." Shows at 7 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.
Arlo Guthrie has been known to generations as a prolific songwriter, social commentator, master storyteller, actor and activist. Born in Coney Island, New York in 1947, Arlo is the eldest son of Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease, and America's most beloved singer/writer/philosopher/artist Woody Guthrie. Arlo has become an iconic figure in folk music in his own right with a distinguished and var
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I have to say that I liked Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude a lot less than Love in the Time of Cholera. The story revolves around the Buendía Family in the fictional Columbian town of Macondo. For those that grew up in Latino households, the story has a very familiar vein. It involves inter-generational trauma, drama, and repeating cycles – for better or for worse. The small town is cut off from the rest of civilization, and it seems to the reader that the solitude precipitates much of the drama, romance, and crime between the individuals. It gives the phrase Hasta en las mejores familias a whole other literary meaning because the Buendía would be the most prominent family in town. I’d recommend this to readers that have a strong sense of loyalty to the Latino culture and/or want to explore more literature from Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Ballantine Books, 2013.
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After the Dawn War was finished and the Gods had retreated from the world, the nations they had crafted to make war on the Primordials struggled to continue. Without the common purpose of war and desperate struggle or the direct guidance of the Gods, the people left behind sought new enterprise and purpose. They followed as best the could the teachings left them, and sought to make use of the World that had been won on their behalf. In time, many great lands and kingdoms rose to power, jockeying for position as greatest and strongest land.
Soon, the nation of Bael Turath strove to seize dominance over the others by any means possible. The Turathi king and his advisers sought some special edge, some new way to defeat their competitors and claim ascendancy over the world. They made contact with the Exiles and the Primordials, with the First Ones both in the Far Realm and in the Underdark, all in the name of gaining special knowledge and power. They struck bargains with many strange and powerful creatures to gain advantage, and the sign of their bargains was soon stamped in their very natures. The Turathi people were gradually transformed into the race of tieflings by constant exposure to otherworldly powers. Bael Turath rose to greatness and began to conquer her neighbors. The dragonborn kingdom of Arkhosia fought bravely against Bael Turath, using faith and divine magic to counter as best they could the Turathi arcane pact magic. The war was terrible, nearly rivaling the Dawn War, and in the end, the Turathi Empire and the Kingdom of Arkhosia both broke and fragmented. Their remnants shattered and shattered again into hundreds of tiny warring states that flared and fought and failed one by one until it seemed the light of civilization would go out the World altogether. Bael Turath and Arkhosia together became known as the Ruined Empire, the last flicker of promise before savagery and barbarism overwhelmed everything. Countless secrets of arcane and divine lore were lost, wealth beyond counting was lost or hidden, and the people forgot their roots and origins save in dim legends.
So it would be for a thousand years…


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With the publication of his not-quite-for-children children’s book, “Outlaw Pete,” Bruce Springsteen has surprised even himself. Writing such a book “was the last thing I saw coming,” he says, never mind the many other rock stars who have delved into the children’s section lately — including, most recently, Keith Richards with “Gus & Me.”
The Boss says “there’s no grand plan behind this.” Still, he admits publishing the book, inspired by his song of the same name, is a kick, and in a phone interview joked, “maybe I’ll have a whole series now.”
Despite the many Springsteen songs that might make a good children’s story — he admits that “Blinded by the Light,” with its antic rhymes, “would be fun to read” — this book is not the first of a series. “Outlaw Pete,” which was launched last Tuesday, was a bit of a lark, and, he writes in the afterword, “I’m not sure this is a children’s book.”
Indeed, the book deals with some heavy themes — death, violence and abandonment among them — and does not sugarcoat them. The book’s illustrations, by cartoonist Frank Caruso, include vivid scenes of a knife fight and a man lying dead in a pool of blood.
Essentially an illustrated version of the song from his 2009 album “Working on a Dream,” the 50-page picture book begins with Pete, as a 6-month-old, robbing a bank and follows him through the course of a life as “an outlaw killer and a thief.” Wherever he goes, “women wept and men died.” About midway through the story, Pete seeks redemption, marrying a Navajo girl and having a child.
But for him there is no escape from who he is — “I’m Outlaw Pete” is the refrain he repeats more fervently as the book moves into its dark second half. A bounty hunter comes to remind him, “you think you’ve changed but you have not.” And to prove the point, Pete kills him. “We cannot undo these things we’ve done” are the man’s final words.
Pete rides off into the proverbial sunset — in this case an icy ledge — into legend, a bereft young girl calling out after him: “Outlaw Pete! Outlaw Pete! Can you hear me? Can you hear me?”
The story, Springsteen writes in the afterword, “is not easy.” But, he adds, “I believe children instinctively understand passion and tragedy. And a 6-month-old, bank-robbing baby is a pretty good protagonist.”
On the phone, he describes the book as a cross between the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and “Goodnight Moon,” a favorite book of his three children, Evan, Jessica and Sam, who are in their 20s. “The characters are outlandish. They’re not real. They’re mythical. The tale is a fable,” he says. And while it has an admittedly a challenging lesson “about the difficulty of redemption,” this shouldn’t scare off kids — or their parents.
“If ‘Bambi’ is for kids, this is fine,” he says. “If ‘Lion King’ is for kids, this will be fine also.”
“The act of growing up is filled with so much raw passion and tragedy that they can’t escape it,” he says. “Children’s lives revolve around these things, and as parents we do our best to guide them through these things, but we can’t protect them from occurring.”
As a friend once told him, he recalls, “Parents give their kids the best they have to offer, and the world takes care of the rest. There’s no escaping from the blues or whatever you want to call it.”
Springsteen had no plans to make a book — children’s or otherwise — out of the song until he heard from Caruso. The cartoonist was immediately drawn to the dark tale when he first heard the song version in 2009.
“I stopped what I was doing and thought it was like a story being read to me,” Caruso says. “Everyone’s got to be seeing this.”
He made some pencil sketches and presented them to Springsteen and Caruso’s mutual friend, music critic Dave Marsh. About a year and a half later, Caruso got a call out of the blue one Sunday morning from Springsteen, who was excited about the project. “This was the first time anyone has approached me to do a book of this kind,” Springsteen says.
The collaboration went smoothly, according to both the writer and the illustrator, with about three or four dummy copies of the book passing back and forth between them.
“He dug the pencil drawings,” Caruso says of Springsteen. “It was just a matter of tweaking a color to get the right emotion.”
On the eve of the book’s publication, Springsteen says he feels the work has a universal appeal.
“It’s a very human story,” he says. “We start carrying some of the baggage of our past as small children. And then at some point, we either try to sort it out or outrun it. You can’t outrun it, which is what this character tries to do. And it’s very difficult to sort it out. But it’s the only way to go.”
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SIX DOLLARS AN HOUR
by Adam Matcho
LLP-11-42 40 Pages, $6.
First Place winner for 2011, this collection captures the stark and often comical experience of the minimal wage earner. As Huff once said, "it's lonely at the bottom too" and Adam has documented that sentiment beautifully.
I FALL IN LOVE WITH STRANGERS
by Kelly Scarff
LLP-11-41 32 Pages, $6.
This compelling chap won second place in the 2011 contest. We're happy and proud to include Kelly on the Nerve Cowboy bookshelf.
LET ME GET YOU AN ASHTRAY
by Desire Oliver
LLP-10-40 28 Pages, $6.
We were first knocked out by Desire's writing before we knew who she was, the result of some pages with no name that we couldn't put down and just had to publish. Here is a whole book of that. First Prize winner for 2010, also sports a typically surreal color cover by the inimitable Wayne Hogan.
LOVE ONE ANOTHER CONSTANTLY
by Michelle Brooks
LLP-10-39 44 Pages, $6.
This beautiful, tough chap won second place in 2010 Nerve Cowboy competition. Second time in the winners circle for Michelle, get a copy and you'll know why.
ANOTHER CASUALTY AT THE 34TH STREET BUS STOP
by Justin Hyde
LLP-09-38 36 Pages, $6.
Why is it when people say, "you win some, you lose some", they usually just lost something? This powerful chap, which took 1st place in the 2009 Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contest, looks into this. Tough people + tough stories = a killer book of poems.
IT GETS WORSE
by David J. Thompson
LLP-09-37 44 Pages, $6.
David J. Thompson hits again. This 2nd place 2009 finish marks Thompson's third time in the NC Chap Contest winner's circle. From a bad date to a bad year, with occasional victories along the way, these tough poems tell it like it is.
A MILLION YEARS GONE
by Michael Flanagan
LLP-08-36 44 Pages, $6.
First Place 2008 Chapbook Contest Winner. It all seems so long ago. Your parents at the Knights of Columbus hall. The first girl you ever loved. Your daughter in the smiling photo. Your own dark night & redemption. These poems notice and remember the things we almost cannot bear but somehow do.
by Nicholas Benca
LLP-08-35 28 Pages, $6.
Second Place 2008 Chapbook Contest Winner. These are powerful stories and poems that shine a bare lightbulb on the struggles of people trying to relate to the people they're related to. Featuring a startling 2-color cover by 40 oz. Fred.
WEDLOCK SUNDAY and Other Poems
by Gerald Locklin
LLP-07-34 44 Pages, $6.
Gerald Locklin at his best, letting us in on the comings & goings & artistic musings of a guy who can appreciate a great Mexican dinner for $8.35. It this were not enough, the color cover by Henry Denander is worth the price of admission. Another gem for your small press bookshelf.
THE BOOK OF TOOTHPICKS
by Michelle Barnette
LLP-07-33 28 Pages, $6.
Second Place 2007 Chapbook Contest Winner. A moving collection of poems that explore love, loss, children, and the past that is always with us.
EVEN THE FALLEN
by David J. Thompson
LLP-07-32 28 Pages, $6.
First Place 2007 Chapbook Contest Winner. The first time anyone has won two Nerve Cowboy chap contests, get this book and you'll see why. Like a Chet Baker solo, these poems are just the perfect length and end on just the perfect note.
TEATIME @ THE BOUQUET MORALE
Joan Jobe Smith and Fred Voss
LLP-06-31 48 Pages, $5.
Second Place 2006 Chapbook Contest Winner. Two books in one: half Joan's wonderfully rich poems of 50s Texas, the go-go 60s, and the everyday dramas of today... and then half Fred's insightful takes on the truth and beauty of work, marriage, and getting the words on the page. Pound for pound you won't find a better value in poetry anywhere, at any price!
David J. Thompson
LLP-06-30 44 Pages, $5.
First Place 2006 Chapbook Contest Winner. Thompson writes of travels, inward and outward, relationships ascending and descending, among other remarkable things. One-of-a-kind cover art by Wayne Hogan.
METHINKS I SEE MY FATHER
Poems about our fathers by Glenn Cooper and Michael Estabrook
LLP-06-29 48 Pages, $6.
Sons who lose their fathers young must make their own way in the world and figure things out as they go. Every photograph and scrap of memory offers a clue and is carefully cultivated. Glenn Cooper and Michael Estabrook split this 48-page book down the middle and take us along on the journey. This book sports a lovely ful-color cover of an original painting by Lisa McCarthy.
LLP-05-28 40 Pages, $5.
Meeting an old high school classmate in a bar. The crush on your brother's friend. Getting fucked up in the doctor's office. Taking a walk on the beach with your girlfriend and getting your heart ripped out of your chest, bloody and beating. These are stories you'll carry with you the rest of your life. Private Property won 2nd place in the Nerve Cowboy 2005 contest and notably is the first book of fiction to break the winners' circle. Note to poets: buy this book, read these badass stories and your poems will thank you.
THRU THE HEART OF THIS ANIMAL LIFE, A MEASURE OF IMPOSSIBLE HUMOR
by Christopher Cunningham
LLP-05-29 44 Pages, $6.
Cunningham is a man of few words, but those words are the precisely perfect ones to cut through the bullshit and lay the soul bare. Poem after freakin' poem for 44 pages in this solid first place winner of the 2005 Nerve Cowboy contest. These are the poems that will get you through the night, poems of honesty, despair, revelation and redemption. Not always pretty but true and beautiful.
Bonus: this book features a one-of-a-kind cover, designed and hand-colored by the madman author himself. No two alike!
CASUALTY OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
As far as small press poets go, Koweski is a race car on red. He is a superfly mushroom cloud that is gonna run your ass down and keep you laughing and howling from the first page to the last. With this collection that placed 2nd in Nerve Cowboy's 2004 contest, Karl goes from crackhead girlfriends who scare dobermans to livin' paycheck to paycheck. Just buy the damn book!!!
A HOTEL ROOM IN BATON ROUGE
A Hotel Room in Baton Rouge won the 2004 Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Contest with an amazing collection of dark, moving poems about growing up, personal loss, living in an imperfect world, and coping with it. After you read the first poem "Chiggers" we dare you to try to put this book down.
Back in Print!
ARE YOU JUST GETTING UP?
The poems and prose in Joshua Bodwell's Are You Just Getting Up?, the second prize winner in Nerve Cowboy's 2001 contest, are spare, touching, and honest. Bodwell gets right to the heart of things. In his words the simplest expressions seem 100% true and utterly profound, and leave you in a quiet place far from where you started. A beautiful color cover designed by Louis W. Rizzo and printed by the author are an added bonus for the small press collector. Are You Just Getting Up?
NOTHING BUT CANDY
Remember the fat kid in elementary school? Well, she grew up to write a kick-ass book of poems about what it's like to be marginalized in a thin-obsessed culture. These poems are beautiful, sad, thrilling, and sexy. Jennifer Jackson has a unique voice, fascinating perspective, and exciting way with words, taking second place in the super tight 2003 chapbook contest with this killer entry.
WHEN PATTI WOULD FALL ASLEEP
In these prose poems Michael Estabrook offers vivid glimpses of various women in his life. These poems are all about falling in love (for a moment or a lifetime) -- the sights, sounds, smells, and intense feelings that transport us for a time but stay with us forever. We're delighted to have Michael Estabrook on the Liquid Paper Press bookshelf.
ASHTRAYS AND BULLS
Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Bukowski of the new millenium. Plath bursts onto the poetry scene with his first collection of poems, Ashtrays and Bulls. Plath's poems take aim right between the reader's eyes and rarely miss with their dark, masterfully crafted imagery. Ashtrays and Bulls placed first in Nerve Cowboy's 2003 chapbook contest and lives true to his motto, "keep your glass empty and your ashtray full."
HINDSIGHT, OR HOW I SURVIVED THE DEPRESSION
by Albert Huffstickler
Poems about everyday people, lonely, starving, in love, disconnected, searching for something but not sure just what--put in the way that only Huff can. If these don't make you feel something deep inside, you're in need of a heart transplant. Huff's first Liquid Paper Press chap from 1996, a classic! Hindsight
W9GRF and the Dance That Never Ends
W9GRF was the ham radio signal Joe's father used to communicate with the world, and it's also the title of a powerful new chapbook by Joseph Shields, his fourth. There are poems about his dad's navy days in the 40s, his sister's dating days in the 60s, and to keep the dance going, poems about the crop Joe is raising now. Many of these poems have appeared in some of the finest small press publications over the last couple of years, but here they are in one place, along with some new gems as well. W9GRF
Bob Pajich is a master storyteller and his latest collection, Everyone, Exquisite, clearly exemplifies that fact. From the chest pounding proclamation poem about being "the Best Plastic Bag Factory Poet in the USA" to his ode to Chuck Taylor Converse high tops to pissing in his boss's hard hat to a moment of clarity after hot sex to... well, you get the point. Everyone, Exquisite placed second in Nerve Cowboy's 2002 Chapbook Contest. Everyone, Exquisite
BROKE-DOWN SHOTGUN BLUES
James Edward O'Brien
Broke-Down Shotgun Blues won first place in Nerve Cowboy's 2002 Chapbook Contest and we are confident you will see why. O'Brien is gifted with the rare ability to paint a vivid image of a snapshot in time in a short tight poem. After reading poems like "12 Faded Pictures", "Sleepy Hollow", "Love Sick", "The Same Dream" and others, you are sure to be a fan of O'Brien's work.
THE MAN FROM NANTUCKET
This is Jerry's first chapbook and it is a knockout from the first page to the last. The book weaves in and out of the lives of dozens of fascinating characters -- a homeless man into Poe, a lost soul at a concert, old loves, dying co-workers -- with great compassion and honesty, and he shows how simple and beautiful the world can be through the observations of his young daughter. To Alison
HOEING COTTON IN HIGH HEELS
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Hoeing Cotton in High Heels tells it like it was for the Dust Bowl refugees in the 1930s who headed west as much for survival as for a better life... and what living in California is like now for an authentic Okie who finds joy and wonder in the stark simplicity of everyday life and everyday people. As Sherman Alexie has said, "The whole world should be reading Wilma's poems and they should also know the story of her amazing life." We couldn't agree more and are delighted to have this special book in our lineup. Hoeing Cotton in High Heels
The Regulars won first prize in Nerve Cowboy's 2001 chapbook contest and here's what Ed Ochester had to say: "In one of Jakiela's poems, her machinist father comes home from work and gives his young daughter some bits of scap steel and springs from the mill, and tells her "Here ... / Go make something beautiful." And, by god, she does. From wrecked lives and bad jobs, she makes poems and short prose stories which are utterly moving in their exact observation and human sympathy. How many books or chapbooks does one read, and say to oneself, 'I want more of this'? Friends, this is one of those books." You will also love the sharp color cover designed by Louis W. Rizzo and printed by Joshua Bodwell of Clamp Down Press. The Regulars
LEARNING TO LIE
The latest from Albert Huffstickler, bard of the Southwest. In these poems Huff tells it like it truly is, beneath the veneer of the American "dream" where there really are such things as truth and beauty. In classic Huff style he describes how he came to find these places. He is a good guide. Follow him. Learning to Lie
PICKING THE LOCK ON THE DOOR TO PARADISE
Joan Jobe Smith
Here comes another strong collection of work from Joan Jobe Smith. This book placed second in Nerve Cowboy's Y2K chapbook contest. Tim Scanell writes: "each specific memory (from very beginning to very end) a fluid, nearly breathless, wave: upbringing; recurrent episodes with mom, dad; failed marriages and single-mom childbearing; her go-go dancing years; but at last, college and a solid, loving marriage to Fred Voss (machinest/poet)- a double-score of excellent poems." Picking the Lock on the Door to Paradise
SUNDAY RITUAL Ralph Dranow
First Prize winner in Nerve Cowboy's 2000 chapbook contest. "The best poems I will ever read about the aura and denizens of the bookstore - and I see the eternal horizon - are these by Ralph Dranow. Each of his twenty-five poems is a delightfully imaged - simple - narrative: who enters, what the buyers want, and why they leave; yet within this plain structure is the universe of 'bookshop browsers' we have all met, but have not ever, ever had the words or insight to describe as perfectly, touchingly, as this poet" (Tim Scannell, Chiron Review). Sunday Ritual
Newman just tells it like it is and that is what is so great about this book about driving an 18-wheeler across the country. It is about a scared kid, warning other unemployed kids not to answer the truck driving school ads on late night television, ending up in the most unappealing shitholes in America, encountering some of the most unappealing people in America, and still managing to keep his sense of humor. Truck It, which placed second in Nerve Cowboy's 1999 Chapbook Contest, sucks you in and doesn't let you go until the last page is read. Hookers and Truckers
FROM PARTS UNKNOWN
From Parts Unknown is brilliant and should be read by everybody. It placed first in Nerve Cowboy's 1999 Chapbook Contest and has poems about angels, gargoyles, the devil, the church, bartenders, coffee shops, and other things. Caution: the poem "Hatebox" may just knock you on your ass.
NO ESCAPE AND OTHER POEMS
This book, published by Scrooges Ledger Press, is being distributed through Nerve Cowboy. It contains poems about unconditional love, lack of sanitary hygeine practiced by co-workers, crack head junkies, government work, smoking a cigarette, trying to escape from a big turd floating in the ocean, and whole bunch of other interesting stuff. This will be a fun book for you to read. No Escape
THE BACK EAST POEMS
This 64 page collection of poems by Locklin recounts a recent trip through the midwest to the east coast to visit his children from his first marriage. These are uniquely personal poems which you are sure to enjoy. Ha Ha
Susanne R. Bowers
Bowers' poems come from the gut and the images and feelings they create are not easy to forget. Grappling, which palced third in Nerve Cowboy's 1998 Chapbook Contest, contains poems about an alcoholic mother, stints in mental health facilities, thoughtless piece of shit men who are now gone, and everything in between. Buy it and read it and you will be that much richer for it. Grappling
E PLURIBUS ALUMINUM
Thomas Michael McDade
McDade is one of the great storytellers of the small press and with this book, he brings us tales about guys working and drinking from paycheck to paycheck, Jack the old shoe shine man who is 75, the bearded painter of the Fenway Park bleachers, Eddie's superbowl hell, and more. E Pluribus Aluminum placed second in Nerve Cowboy's 1998 Chapbook Contest and is a must read. E Pluribus Aluminum
NOTES OF A HUMAN WAREHOUSE ENGINEER
This book about Belinda's experiences as a nurse's aide at a border town nursing home is touching, funny, and disturbing all at the same time. The book placed first in Nerve Cowboy's 1998 Chapbook Contest and is highly recommended. December 15
THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT, AND OTHER POEMS
by Gerald Locklin
This collection of 28 poems has Locklin providing contemporary interpretations of famous paintings, worrying about the expiration date on a can of soda being the same as his birthday, speculating about the true source of power behind Burroughs' dream machine, afraid to look in the mirror, and wondering if he is more like Mickey Mantle or Jerry Garcia. These are charming, funny, enlightening poems told with the insight and humor we have come to love from this small press veteran from Long Beach, CA. The Active Ingredient
BUTCHERS AND BRAIN SURGEONS
by Fred Voss
Fred is back with dozens of beautiful and insightful poems from the trenches of the Goodstone Aircraft Company. Poems about the insidious, inane practices of management, demented co-workers, and the touching relationships that form between the people at Goodstone. These poems are about humanity at its worst and its best. ...And Loving It
BORN NOT TO LAUGH AT TORNADOES
by Joan Jobe Smith
Rich, magical poems about the author's father and her experiences growing up in small town Texas. These poems create vivid images of times and places that no longer exist--poems nobody should be without. Handsomer Than Henry Fonda
by Joseph Shields
Narrative poems about after-school football, bullies, trading cards, drinking smoking, motorcycle wrecks, yard sales, cross-country races, and all those other things boys do, told from the perspective of an older man looking back on his youth. These poems will take you places you won't soon forget. Steven, Freddy, Virginia & Me
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Our bookclub read for March is Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth Experience.
As Mamas on Bedrest, many of you may be undergoing very “medical” pregnancies and births. Several of you have recounted to me individually and to the community on Facebook that you feel like you are missing out on the pregnancy experience. You are not out and about having people asking you how you are doing, making that extra effort to help you out or offering you that unsolicited advice. Because you encountered a complication during your pregnancy, you may have had more than the routine number of ultrasounds, fetal heart monitoring, Non-stress tests and other medical procedures.
Pregnancy is supposed to be a natural occurrence. Women throughout time have given birth. The Orgasmic Birth movement is about women reclaiming their birth experiences from the hyper medicalized model that we have today. According to proponents, “childbirth is a natural process to be enjoyed and cherished.”
Is that possible for a Mama on Bedrest? Can we, despite our complications and rocky road to motherhood have a “natural childbirth” and experience all of the joys and exuberance of childbirth? According to authors Debra Pascali-Bonaro, the producer of the film by the same name and author Elizabeth Davis, this is indeed the case. They lay out their case for natural birth in this book, as well as provide tools and guidance so that women can design a birth plan that is best for them.
I have not read this book, and I am anxious to see for myself what the Orgasmic Birth Movement is all about. As always, we’ll review the book the third week of the month. Happy reading and I’ll look forward to your comments.
Bumptabulous is a compilation of stories from “20 laugh out loud moms who describe their pregnancies, revealing the secretly-guarded details of their conceptions, the great and gross about pregnancy, the truths about childbirth and how their lives changed once their little womb-hijacker finally came out.”
I received a copy of Bumptabulous from Author/editor Alina Rutkowska just before the Christmas holidays. The book had just been released and she asked if I’d give it a read. I love getting books from authors and sharing them with Mamas on Bedrest, so I was thrilled at the opportunity. Admittedly, it has taken me a couple of months to get to the book, but I settled in this weekend and read the book in a couple of short sittings.
The book is an easy read and each story is well written. The mamas do share some pretty intimate stuff that I think a “newbie mama to be” will be grateful. For me, and I realize that I regard pregnancy through the lens of bed rest, I had in the back of my mind, “How would Mamas on Bedrest feel about this book?” As a supporter of a community of women for whom a large part of the pregnancy experience is hijacked, some of these stories feel pretty flat with me. I am thinking of having one or two of the mamas give it a read and give their take to see if I’m just jaded, but overall I came away with “so what”? I did like the story about Erin’s hemorrhoids, that did make me laugh. And I found Rachel’s story of getting pregnant when she thought she couldn’t and wrestling with whether or not to abort was moving. But overall, I just wasn’t as moved as I had hoped I would be.
While I understand that the crux of the book is to be a lighthearted, virtual “mama’s night out with the girls” chat about life before, during and after baby, for a book, I would have liked a bit more substance. And what about a former “Mama on Bedrest”? I would have liked a nod in our direction. It is hard for me to believe that none of the women Alina knows was on bed rest. Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I meet women who come up to me and say, “Where were you “X” years ago when I was on bed rest?” While I am not sure how the editor chose her subjects for the book, I think that it would have been nice to have included a high risk mama-just like she included a mama who had been infertile-in the book. And believe it or not, bed rest mamas do have some funny stories, too! It might have been nice for a mama on bed rest to share her conception, what her pregnancy was like before bed rest, how she coped while on bed rest, how she and her partner bonded while she was on bed rest and funny stories before, during and after her pregnancy and childbirth. I’m not saying include a hard luck story. But a bit more of the, “we encountered ____. Initially we were blown away, but once we got used to the idea, got in a rhythm, we went with it” type of thing.
I’m going to pass this book on and get some other perspectives. Like I said, I look at everything through the lens of Mamas on Bedrest, so I may have a skewed view. I am going to ask both a mama on bed rest to read the book and comment as well as my niece in law who is 1st time pregnant (and uncomplicated so far Thank God!!) to weigh in. I definitely think that additional perspective is needed before I flat out say “Yay or nay”.
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn is truly a walk on the wild side! While this story is listed as a suspense thriller, I found that it is a stroll through some seriously psychotic minds. That being said, I still would recommend that you read the book. It is truly a brain teaser and a great mental work out.
The story is about Amy and Nick Dunne, a hip thirty something couple who met in New York and got married in the mid 2000’s. Things were good until the bust in 2008 when both of them lost their writing jobs. After flopping around for a few months, Nick receives a call from his sister that his parents are failing. Unilaterally, Nick decides that he and Amy will move to his hometown in Missouri to care for his parents and to live a simpler life.
It wasn’t an easy adjustment to mid-western life for born and bred New Yorker Amy . But she embraces some of the “simpler” things in life and tries to make do. However, unbeknownst to anyone until well into the story, Amy saw Nick with his young mistress one evening, one of his students from the local community college, and this set off a series of events that give the most vivid illustration of “a woman scorned” that I have ever seen.
Amy is meticulous in her planning and execution of her revenge on Nick. She spends 12-18 months planning and getting everything just right before hatching a scheme that nearly put her husband behind bars for life for her disappearance! But even kookier, after discovering this scheme and confronting Amy with it upon her return, Nick and Amy stay together and actually have a child together. Personally, I’m scared to think of a child that is the product of these two dangerous minds, but it is the child that ultimately binds Nick and Amy together for life.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, Amy was a freaking nut case! The lengths that she went to in order to “torture” Nick are diabolical and the woman has no scruples, using anything and anyone that will further her purpose. One could argue that Amy is a product of her parents’ fame; They had suffered some 8 pregnancy losses before conceiving and giving birth to Amy. They were so overjoyed that they started a series of children’s books called, “The Amazing Amy” for which they were well known and from which they had created a fortune and very lavish life in New York. But we learn that Amy merely felt like a prototype and wanted another, more genuine type of adoration from her parents. Amy was unable to articulate exactly what she wanted and even after she returns from being “Gone”, she still holds enormous resentment towards her parents.
Nick is an “All American, Midwestern Guy”. Handsome, witty, intelligent he meets and charms Amy at trendy writer’s party one evening in New York. He soon after pisses her off by not calling her for some 8-9 months (“I lost your number” is his excuse!). But once they find each other again, Nick and Amy stay together, fall in love and get married. Nick prides himself on “keeping things simple”. He likes living on a pretty even keel, neither up nor down. What we later learn is that Nick has a deep seated fear of becoming like his father-a cold hearted, self centered man who in his demented state (Nick’s father had Alzheimer’s) is loathed by most of those around him and charged to take care of him. Nick returns to Missouri to live a life that is simple and unencumbered, yet Amy continues to press him to be more engaging while not at all providing the encouragement he seems to need for his fragile ego. And it is this need to be seen and adored yet to have to do little to receive that adoration that leads Nick to take up with Andie, the community college co-ed.
Given that the title of the book is “Girl Gone” one can easily surmise that Amy goes missing and Nick is the prime suspect. But this is not really the main story of this story. The real story, in my opinion, is Does one over really know one’s spouse and when you know all that there is to know, can you stand the heat and live your life with this person? Both Nick and Amy confront this question surprisingly (even scarily) admit that they must stay together.
It is not clear what Ms. Flynn’s background is, but she delved deep into the minds and hearts of Nick and Amy. You want to hate them-each at differing times in the story-but in the end, I found myself asking myself, “If I were pushed in the way that these two were pushed, would I really react any differently?” And that is the brilliance of this book. I won’t say that I loved it, but it was a good read; engaging, a great plot and lots of substance. The story was a bit disturbing and I think that is what keeps me from “loving it.” However, I like the fact that Ms. Flynn really gave me a lot to think about. How far would I go to get back at someone? How far would I go if I found out that my husband had an affair behind my back? How fragile is my ego? Am I able to articulate what I need in a relationship? It’s easy to cast aspersions upon Nick and Amy, to vehemently declare “I’d never do that!” But it is as Nick says at the end of the book, you realize, sometimes, that what you want most is right in front of you. You don’t recognize it because it is cloaked in an unrecognizable or unsuspecting cover. What’s more, it may come in a form that on one level you find wholeheartedly revolting, yet it suits you to a tee. And this is the great realization that both Nick and Amy learn. And they stay together-for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health. In the end, they each got the marriage and “soul mate” partner they desired, but at an enormous, “sell your soul to Satan” price.


My current artistic creations are the result of a combination of graphic design work and my work with public libraries. I have a degree in art education and have worked many years in the arts both teaching and in freelance design work. I am also a certified librarian, and as an employee in a public library one of my projects has been teaching the Zentangle® method of drawing in classes offered by the library. I have used this design technique in combination with botanical drawing as well in my graphic work on old card catalog cards that I obtained when the library switched to a digital card catalog and eliminated the use of traditional cards. I begin this artistic process with a theme such as the names given to each full moon. Then I select catalog cards that reflect in some way the theme I am working with. In this way the cards and my drawings coordinate with one another. I use my training in botanical illustration along with the pattern drawing of Zentangle® to create the combination of naturalistic and man-made design that provides a unique contrast in my current design work. I am also intrigued with the fact that these cards have been used by many people and therefore have a connection to a large number of people who may see in them something of their own experiences within the library as they view the information on the catalog cards peeking through my ink drawings.
All my card designs are original and one of a kind. Each card design is drawn in ink on authentic library card catalog cards and has not been copied by me to produce prints, so that each one is unique without a copy. They are professionally mounted and framed and ready to hang. I do commission work as well, but the catalog cards are in limited supply and the subject matter of the cards cannot always be requested due to limited availability.


Long before the first pharmaceutical companies opened their doors in the 1850s, doctors treated people, not symptoms. And although we've become used to popping pills, Americans have finally had it with the dangerous side-effects, addiction, and over-prescription — and they're looking for an alternative.
Here's the good news: That alternative has been here all along in the form of ancient treatments that have been used for eons by cultures around the world. Ancient Remedies is the first comprehensive, layman's guide that will bring these time-tested practices to the masses.
In Ancient Remedies, Dr. Axe explains the foundational concepts of ancient healing — concepts that stand in stark contrast to the approach we typically see in Western medicine — and how they can be used to cure more than 70 diseases, ranging from ADHD to diabetes, pneumonia, autoimmune disease, and beyond. Readers will learn how traditional healers identified the root cause of each patient's illness, then treated it with natural approaches derived from plants, flowers, mushrooms, and herbs, all of which they catalogued and studied over hundreds of years. From CBD to essential oils and other traditional medicines from cultures around the globe, Ancient Remedies offers readers everything they need to know about getting, and staying, healthy — without dangerous chemicals.


No matter where your summer travels take you, you should always have a great book or two in your bag or on your tablet! Check out the promising new page-turners you won’t be able to put down.
Blogger Kelly Oxford opens up about childhood, motherhood and her career in this witty, hilarious and riveting tell-all.
An exhilarating and evocative read, this book charts the romance of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald—one of America’s most iconic literary couples.
Focusing on the tragic events that transpire in the life of varsity tennis captain Ezra, this heart-wrenching novel puts a modern twist on the classic coming-of-age story.
Based on @CharlieMcDowell
's popular Twitter feed, Dear Girls Above Me
shows how one single guy turned into a better man by thinking like the twenty-something girls who live upstairs.
This gripping novel about love and money centers on the trials and tribulations of Geri Molloy, an investment banker who has three days to decide her destiny.
Before you see the movie, read this inspired-by-true-events-tale about The Bling Ring: a group of club-hopping teens who robbed some of the biggest names in young Hollywood.
Sure to draw Carrie Bradshaw and Hannah Horvath comparisons, this hard-to-put-down book follows Iris as she navigates life and love in New York City.
NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel tells the story of 10-year-old Darling, a Zimbabwe native who travels to America for a new life but struggles to find opportunities as an immigrant.
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Spring is trying to show its pretty face. What better time to learn new things? Ravensbridge welcomes you to our first spring schola.
This is a Schola for Scadians and non-Scadians to attend. We are holding it in the Auburn Public Library, in order to be able to use the community room, the public is invited. Classes will be 1/2 hour to 45 minutes long, this is to accommodate all attendees that may come so that we can maximize learning and not lose the public’s interest. The room with be open to everyone with displays of other activities in the SCA. These displays will be away from the classes that are being held. Please contact the autocrat if you have a display to show.
The room is open from 1 to 4, classes will begin at 1:30 and go to 3:30. There is no dayboard, but coffee and some snacks will be available.
Classes planned so far include:
Viking Culture and Dress
Historical Food Preparation
Fueling the Fighter
Schedule is subject to change. Additional Parking is available on Library Street and on Troy Street diagonally across the street from Library Street.
From the south:
Take I-95 to exit 75, turn left onto Route 202. Follow 202/Minot avenue to Court Street, take a right on Court, take the first left onto Spring Street, the library will be on the left.
From the North:
Take Route 202 to Court Street in Auburn (just across the bridge from Lewiston), take 4th right (Spring Street) library will be on the left.
Alternately, take I-95 South to exit 75, follow the “From the South” directions above.
No fees, you can contribute to the Snack Bar if you wish.
Lady Sigrid Arnsdottir


Year published :October 2016
Size :15 x 23 cm.
Black & White illustrations :150
Maps :43 maps
Tables :1 figure
History of Timor-Lesteby Frédéric Durand
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, a former Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, became in 2002 the first new sovereign state of the twenty-first century. Its modern nationhood belies its ancient history. Archaeological data found on the island can be traced back at least 42,000 years, beyond most ancient European artifacts. The book provides a readable overview of the history of the country from the first traces of human habitation through Timor-Leste’s hard-won independence in May 2002.
Structured chronologically, the account begins with the earliest legends and moves quickly and concisely through the defining events that created and shaped the modern nation of Timor-Leste. The text is richly illustrated with over two hundred maps, engravings, and photographs. A detailed historical time line follows the text.
- Presents the political, economic, and social evolution of the island of Timor
- Covers the important periods and events in East Timorese history from ancient times up to the country's independence in 2002
- Examines one of the major human rights struggles of the twentieth century
- Provides an excellent introduction to the nation next in line for ASEAN membership
About the Author
Frédéric B. Durand is a professor at the University of Toulouse II–Jean Jaurès and a member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Solidarities, Societies and Territories (LISST-UMR 5193). He has published more than twenty books on the region, including East Timor, a Country at the Crossroads of Asia and the Pacific: A Geo-Historical Atlas (2006), and in French, a history of Christianity in East and West Timor (2004) and a study of the economic and political perspectives of the country (2008).
What Others Are Saying
“This is a welcome survey of the whole course of Timorese history since the Stone Age, written in accessible and engaging language. Its value is increased by the generous inclusion of maps and illustrations, some of them rarely seen. The book is well balanced chronologically and amply demonstrates the varied and turbulent history of East Timor before 1975, giving us perspective on the current situation of the nation-state.”—Hans Hägerdal, Associate Professor in History, Linnaeus University
“On behalf of the Timorese people, I wish to express my great appreciation and admiration to Professor Durand for this important contribution to our historical record.”—Mgr. Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
East Timor | Portuguese colony | Indonesia | Asia-Pacific history | genocide | struggle for independence


The Ultimate Vegan European Recipe Book: From the Streets of Paris to the Beaches of Greece" is a comprehensive collection of delicious and authentic vegan recipes from every corner of Europe. From the savory croissants of France to the hearty stews of Ireland, and from the fresh pasta of Italy to the flavorful paellas of Spain, this cookbook has something for every palate.
This book offers a wide range of dishes to explore, from the traditional to the modern, and from the simple to the sophisticated. Whether you're a seasoned vegan or new to plant-based cooking, this book will inspire you to try new flavors and techniques.
You'll find recipes for appetizers, main dishes, sides, and desserts, as well as helpful tips and notes on ingredients and substitutions. With beautiful photographs and detailed instructions, "The Ultimate Vegan European Recipe Book" is the perfect guide for anyone looking to discover the rich and diverse world of vegan European cuisine.
My name is Rami and I am passionate about promoting the benefits of a vegan lifestyle through delicious and easy-to-make recipes, as well as tips and advice on how to incorporate a vegan lifestyle into your daily routine.
I became vegan for ethical, environmental, and health reasons, and I believe that a plant-based diet can improve the lives of both people and animals. On my books, you'll find a variety of vegan recipes that are not only delicious, but also easy to make. From breakfast to dinner and everything in between, my recipes are perfect for anyone looking to try veganism or to add more plant-based meals to their diet.
In addition to recipes, I will also be sharing tips and advice on how to make the transition to a vegan lifestyle as smooth as possible. Whether it's advice on finding vegan options when eating out, or suggestions for cruelty-free beauty and household products, I want to make it as easy as possible for you to live a compassionate and sustainable lifestyle.
I believe that a vegan diet and lifestyle can be delicious, varied, and easy to follow. I am constantly experimenting with new ingredients and techniques to create unique and delicious dishes that will inspire you to try veganism.
I hope you will join me on this journey of discovery and experimentation and will find my books helpful in your quest to live a more compassionate, healthy, and sustainable life.
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