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Step inside the world of a woman who has been on a journey before she even knew it started, from the day she was born, July 7, 1968, in Florida.She began her life in one state, with one path defined by people she would not even know until she was an adult and some she would never know at all. That path would take her out of that state, and that period throughout childhood, some pitfalls, and the huge life-changing reveal that would collapse her world forever.According to Me is told by a late-discovery adoptee, a woman who commonly refers to herself as all the stages of her life: a bastard, an orphan, a foster child, an adoptee, a daughter, and a mother. Follow her heart as it is broken by what she learns. This story takes you through her journey of adoption discovery, self-discovery, and finding biological answers to decades-old lies.

I am introducing a compilation of poetry I copyrighted in 1986, called Strawberry Moss. Ever since 1969, when I got my first poem published--an elegy on the death of Martin Luther King--I have been avidly submitting poetry and prose to various publications. The title of my earliest compilation is taken from two poems: "The Moss" and "Wild Strawberries." These poems are ecologically based and symbolically linked, containing warnings about GMOs and endangered species.Moreover, inside the manuscript is a poem called "Strip-Mined Canyons," which symbolically warns of mountain top removal and the dirtying of air and water. The poem also exposes past tactics of mining bosses opposed to unions. Coal miners are hardworking folks who deserve better treatment and working conditions.I am generally optimistic throughout the compilation but "not the commanding general." I try to expose some of society''s ills and also talk across the aisle to skeptics and what we used to call the silent majority. I recall a lyric originally written by Pete Seeger and inspired by the Bible called, "Turn, Turn, Turn," (i.e., "a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing"). Despite rough times, there is no time like the present to "keep on trucking," as Robert Crumb says. (Thank God for Biden.)I ride on the shoulders of many poets and lyricists who''ve come before me. In addition, contained within the volume are poems I got published in UT-K''s literary magazine, in the ''70s, called The University of Tennessee Phoenix.Moreover, also in this submission are "Graffito poems" and "Penny Haiku poems" as abbreviated poems. Note: Penny Haiku is a phrase I have coined. I have written many Penny Haiku online. (See under my pen name, Steve Plonk, in the Studio 8 site, and the Literary Kicks site, under "Action Poetry." Many of my poems have a lyrical bent and comment on social/political change.) Many poems are experimental. I use humor and satire in other poems. "Creative Evolution" is an example of one of these.

The fact that you are still here, breathing . . . stop thinking negative and reprogram your mind with positivity. Enhance your understanding of who you are and whose you are. All of us have been allotted this dressing room called Earth for a specific time. It''s simple. On a tombstone is a birthdate, death date, and then there is a small dash in between the words. "That''s your LIFE and that''s how short it is. You are the Master of your fate the captain of your soul." As a man thinks, so is he. The subconscious does not know the difference between good / bad. All it knows is what you repeatedly tell to yourself over and over and over. If you plant a pear seed, you cannot expect for an apple tree to grow. Meaning, you reap what you sow. If you sow "I''m beautiful, I''m intelligent, I''m greater than my biggest mistake, I''m more than a conqueror." The brain will respond, the body will eventually carry out what the subconscious is transmitting from your thoughts. In retrospect, if you tell yourself negative thoughts, the same process will repeat itself. You are the sum total of all your collective thoughts. The only enemy is the enemy of not Adapting! "I AM MY only competition in the words of my dear friend" Ivan Royce Kennedy. Chapters 1 to 6 unfolds the early years. Searching for self-identity, trials, and errors looking for love in all the wrong places. Chapters 7 to 8 is the turnaround. It takes a village to raise a child is now applicable and demonstrated in the transformation from being a damaged adolescent into a "one day one step walking by faith" and not by sight empowered young adult. Managing Your Emotion. The Destination is the Journey!

The Pooping Fairy is a story about a little girl named Lyla who has trouble going number two. She struggles and fights, but she is unable to go. That''s where the Pooping Fairy comes into the picture. With her secret red magic juice and lots of treats and surprises, Lyla is able to succeed. The book gives children a nice imagination of who the Pooping Fairy is and how she works, making it a fun and easy experience for both the parent and the child. With hope, the goal of this book is to assist parents in achieving comfort for their children in their time of need.

James left the East at the age of seventeen to join the navy and serve his country. He says, "e;I am now eighty-seven years old, and I live on this farm with my dog, Cocoa. I am about to bring you a story from the figment of my imagination. It is a fictional story based on facts about my travels around the world during my time with the US Navy and trips with my late wife, Anita."e; With the support and encouragement from Anita, he has put pen to paper to share the wild adventures of his heart and mind.

Mary has a balding lamb, his fleece keeps falling out.Everywhere that Mary goes, "Help! Help! Help!" she shouts.Mary loves her pet, Lamby.She would do anything for him.When Lamby's fleece starts falling out, it's her deep love for him that forces Mary to come up with a solution when no one else can.

My Liberation is a collection of poems which describe the life lessons the author has learned. She reflects on the past and how either her attitude, thoughts, and/or emotions have grown over her life. Her first book, My Perceptions, contained poems about people who affected her life. This new book takes you a step further into her soul. Through her poems, she tells the journey she has traveled after she transforms her attitude to enjoy all that surrounds her.She shares these hoping they will inspire others to achieve the same peace and tranquility. Her outlook is positive and hopeful. Enjoy!

Who knew what a blanket could do? Almost anything one can imagine! Written in a simple rhyming verse format, this story follows the adventures of two young girls through an alphabetical series of scenes depicting play with blankets. While the older child demonstrates "e;how to"e; with the blanket, the younger child typically copies the action but with some frustration or mishap! Grab your favorite blankets, curl up with them, open the book, and enjoy!

Change your mindset, change your friends, and change your surroundings it will help you change your life.

Open up your imagination and take an adventure with the Great Egg Hunter. You will search high and low for the hidden eggs. A fun and adventurous journey that will lead you to treasures at the end. After you have finished, try to hide and find your own. Can you be the next great egg hunter?

This book is a compilation of much of what I and others see as negative trends in the country, primarily the degradation of liberty and the confusion of privileges for freedom. The divisions that are the biggest hindrances to progress are examined at length, fresh new theories and proofs of what most Americans would scoff at if not backed by proof provided by the author. It is a call to educate the citizen and prompt action from those no longer satisfied to sit on the sidelines, true patriots actively involved in the process of freedom and the active criticism of the nation.When the reader is finished with this book, they will no longer have the excuse of ignorance on many subjects that threaten the stability of the nation and the freedom of her people.

This is the story about a young man and his friend that involved an unusual and dangerous mission. The story involved our main character's friend's cousin Alois Dorman in Germany, and Alois is in a bind. It's 1933 and the Nazis are up to no good. The Nazis are forcing Alois to start working on a project with disastrous repercussions. Alois calls on his cousin Alex and Alex's best friend Manny Guzman in Paraguay. Alois needs their help desperately so he could get the copy of the project in the right hands. Will Alois succeed? You'll have to read to find out.

The Boot family desires to take a vacation, but due to bills and the absence of extra funds, it just does not seem possible. As a last resort to not let her family down, Mrs. Boot enters a contest and hopes for the best.

My name is Barby J. Brown, and I wrote this book because of some wild and crazy dreams that I have been having over a long period of time. That's why I named this book Dreams: They All Have Some Meaning.I want to find out what they all mean to me and understand why I am having them. The first started when I was a little girl living on a plantation farm in the south of Arkansas. I want you, the readers, to enjoy the life of chills and thrills that people deal with in their everyday lives. The dreams transformed my life as I went through many trials and tribulations.The dreams were of all kinds of experiences that show how people experience their lives and even show you how God can put things on your mind that you won't believe could or would be true.All through my life, my dreams helped me in how I would talk to and treat people. Some of them explained it through a step-by-step illustration. Heaven and hell are for real, and some people do not believe in one or the other, but they are for real. Even the fire is hotter than anything that you have ever felt before in your life.The bright lights are those that surround people and are known to surprise people too.I find these kinds of dreams helpful to solve old and new problems that have occurred.

President Bush declared the war in Iraq "e;Mission Accomplished"e; in 2005, but Al-Qaeda had other plans. Money, supplies, and soldiers during the 2006 insurgent uprising were easily funneled from Syria along the dangerous highways of Iraq's Al Anbar Province straight into Baghdad, and the sense of victory quickly flipped for the worse during what was tabbed "e;Operation Iraqi Freedom."e; The insurgency violently rocked the world with gruesome and horrific tactics that included well-trained snipers and dastardly roadside bombers who could carefully place explosives in the early morning hours, some charges powerful enough to easily flip a massive seventy-two-ton American Abrams tank. To further install fear, enemy follow on attacks effortlessly crushed responding coalition forces arriving to the horrendous scenes. The situation in Iraq turned dreadful.American solders returned home with severed limbs, scarred beyond belief, or honorably flown to Dover Air Force Base in flag-draped caskets. These were horrible visions that simply traumatized the American public and invoked rage within the ranks. A change of plans was desperately needed and needed quickly. Senior American leadership in Iraq was failing, and a new strategy was desperately needed, specifically in Iraq's dreaded Triangle of Death.The White House and Pentagon were shocked and angered with the tragic and declining progress in Iraq. The president and his top brass agreed with a new challenging plan. This plan would be new strategy involving five additional American combat brigades shuffled throughout Iraq to beef up the fight and return victory that was "e;slipping sideways"e; under the command of a skeptical theater commander, an incontrollable four-star general with a strange and confusing plan for victory. Additional Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army were needed as well to fight shoulder to shoulder with Americans, and this was needed quickly without any delay. Iraqi Police and Army recruiting was paramount for this new plan. Supplies were needed, funding for the Iraqi workforce was to be guaranteed, and new Iraqi Police stations with roadside checkpoints were demanded to stop the flow of evil that was freely trucked into Baghdad from Iraq's neighboring country of Syria.The surge became a reality at the tail end of 2006, and American combat units were purged into Baghdad, Ramadi, and beyond in record time. Americans lived, worked, and fought with the Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army. Police stations popped up everywhere. Roadside checkpoints supported police stations and chocked any freedom of movement for the fierce enemy that had once freely killed and mutilated hundreds of Americans and Iraqis over the past fifteen months, and the battle of the White Apartments located in southwest Ramadi was the focal point for victory in Anbar and a massive triumph for the First Armored Division's "e;Anbar Awakening"e; that was paired with a company of rugged Indiana Infantry Guardsmen who led the fight with Ramadi's Iraqi Police on that chilly January night.This is a story of the Iraq War, a story of the Iraqi surge and the Cyclone Soldiers that lead it.

Lil Steven is six and a half years old and suffers from separation anxiety, ADHD, and sensory processing disorder. Although he loves going to school, he struggles with anxiety in kindergarten.Many children quickly fall into the routines that come with any typical school day. Lil Steven struggles with wanting to make friends and adjusting to the loud noises and directions that seem to be coming from everywhere. Although he is a very good learner and picks up everything quickly, the school day can become overwhelming.When he has difficulties, he feels like a failure and that he is disappointing his parents after trying very hard to be a good boy.The book talks about some of Lil Steven's struggles and how he overcomes them. Lil Steven opens the door for school administrators and parents to talk to children about their emotional well-being when dealing with school and other areas of their lives. Many children are diagnosed with ADHD and separation anxiety, but they do not know what those big words mean.Lil Steven describes in his own words how he is feeling about different circumstances during the school day. This book helps children to connect their feelings with those big words and letters that affect their everyday lives.

-The purpose of this book is to bring focus on America's current justice system. It is all too common that Americans cry out for justice. However, many don't understand how Black and Brown people are underserved by this system. Through life experiences--living, observing, and working within the system--I have determined that the current criminal justice system is flawed in providing equal justice to Black and Brown people.I hope that after Americans read this book, they will begin to see America for what it really is. The American way is not based on liberty and justice for all. The harsh reality is that it is based on liberty and justice for a few. America has got to come to terms with itself. America has to admit that racism is a reality and is built in every web of our society.How can so many White Americans insist that there is not institutional racism but recognize that White privilege exists? America has got to wake up and stop lying to itself. We are going to have to be inclusive to continue down a path of greatness. Please don't let racism destroy the great nation that America has become. We have an opportunity today to defy history. All great nations of the past, at some point, had come to an end. The primary reason is an unwillingness to change.Going forward, we are going to have to start looking at America as one. We have to turn these words into reality: "e;one nation under God indivisible."e; The key to our success and survival going forward will only be achieved as one. The time is now! We must change our mindset! If not, racism will be our demise!

In the course of the apostles writing the Synoptic Gospels, many questions were raised but not answered. This literary work in no means infringes on the writing of the apostles and their effort to detail the life of Christ Jesus.What I have tried to do is answer some age-old questions that have gone unanswered since the scriptures were put together at the Council of Trent. I tried to write answering the questions in an informative way and also fun to read.I did take some liberties with locations and timelines. In doing so, I tried to set the stage in many instances for the parables that Christ used in his teachings; the characters that Christ called to his ministry; the bond between him and John the Baptist and his friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus; and how Judas Iscariot targeted Christ''s ministry to become a hanger-on.Some events and timelines are taken out of the Infancy Gospel attributed to Apostle Thomas.Other events, such as why John the Baptist; his mother, Elizabeth; and his father, Zechariah, escaped the decree of Herod the Great to slaughter all the infants two years of age or younger in and around Bethlehem and Judea.Both Jesus and John the Baptist were within six months of age.This question was not answered in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.In Cana, at the wedding, did Jesus tell his mother that his "time had not come" and then turn and change the water to wine?In no way is this work authenticated by Bible scholars but is used strictly as a reference point in my narrative of Christ''s early life that is not covered in the Scriptures.I thank you and ask you to read this work with an open mind and heart and enjoy it as much as I have enjoyed writing and trying in my own humble way to answer some questions that have plagued me since I started reading the Bible.