The Crumbling Tower of My Life

The Crumbling Tower of My Life is a resounding and moving collection of deeply felt poems. Found within this outpouring of soul are echoes of both hope and hopelessness. Fears are personified, given an identity, and addressed out in the open. This book is a journey through healing, written in tandem with the emotions experienced along the way. It takes you on a ride from a life-shattering ending towards a journey of rebirth.

This poignant collection of poems will have you riding waves of melancholy, relieved by uplifting touches of whimsy and possibility. It beautifully captures the facets of the life we lead through a lens of love and loss.

The lovely, the deluded, the unhinged, the magical, and even the mundane: nothing is off limits with alchemy such as this. Its simple goal is to transform suffering into connection by speaking the darkness into existence. Vulnerability is capable of holding immense beauty and space for a collective to form, even within its breakdown.

This book is an attempt to make tangible the anguish of coping poorly with lost love. It explores all stages of hurt, as well as the overwhelming nature of all the possibilities ahead that remain unknown. It serves as a reminder of the massive mess of love you can gain if you learn to open your heart to it. It is a genuine telling of horrid beauty and a raw expression of the human experience. The journey starts within, and the fight for rebuilding is a worthy one.

Consideraciones psicoanalíticas sobre diarios de Marion Milner

Este libro trata sobre un momento en la vida de los diarios de Marion Milner, quien fue una destacada psicoanalista y amiga de Donald Winnicott. Lo que este libro intenta establecer es una interpretación desde dos perspectivas del psicoanálisis: primero, la clásica freudiana y luego, la intersubjetiva. Aprenderá más sobre su vida, su obra y también sobre las formas de pensamiento respecto a lo que se puede decir sobre el psicoanálisis contemporáneo.

Rayna's True Colors

Rayna and her caterpillar friends attend Metamorphosis School to learn how to become a butterfly. She dreams about what colors she will be. When Rayna emerges from the chrysalis, she can’t understand why no one acknowledges her presence. She discovers she is transparent, with no colors. Iris, a butterfly fairy, appears and tells Rayna she has been chosen to lead all monarch butterflies in migration. But, first, she must earn each of her three colors by performing good deeds to help others. Will Rayna succeed in her mission to find her true colors?

Welcome to Grandpa and Grandma's House

Do you like to swing from a very tall oak tree? How about getting on a saddle with cowboy boots? Do you like to swim with sharks? What is your favorite birthday cake? Well, c’mon with me, and let’s take an adventure to Grandpa and Grandma’s house and see what we will find!

Beyond the Clinic

As Musa goes through the final years of medical school, he begins to engage in activities outside clinical work, starting with organising the annual medical dinner with limited funding during his fourth year. After his internship, he is posted to a hospital that becomes besieged during the war. There, he finds himself drinking beer at a bar belonging to a disreputable woman who is a concubine of the commander of the losing army and is also trying to woo the commander of the victorious one.

After the war, Dr Musa finds himself organising a wedding for a colleague with insufficient funds. Meanwhile, the night before the wedding, the groom and best man are accosted by ‘the Twins’ – two sisters known to seduce any man they desired. When Dr Musa drives a sports car, he becomes vulnerable to seduction by single women until his niece comes to occupy the empty seat in his car as a chaperone. His car adventures include being carjacked in Nairobi. He is also kissed on the lips in Geneva by two ladies whom he helps to jump-start their car, and again in Jakarta by a woman he assists in getting her car out of a tight spot.

Dr Musa’s life outside the clinic was characterised by one crisis after another. These included: using his personal account to manage funds from his employer; his daughters warding off a ‘lady-in-red’ who had fallen for him in Amsterdam; having to answer his young daughter’s question about when he started to have sex; and responding to his granddaughter’s query about whether he was married.

He equates these crises to a pivotal moment during a friendly football match between Ugandan and Kenyan doctors. In that game, he kicked the ball high in the air, not knowing if it would land in his own goalposts or on the opponent’s side. He only discovered later that it had landed safely on the opponent’s side. In the end, he wonders whether one can survive by simply ‘kicking the ball’ in a crisis, reacting without planning, and get by in life without strategy, relying on the Grace of God.

Finding May

And there she sat. Legs crossed with eyes straight as an arrow.

The sun slipped inches at a mile behind Snow Recreation Center on the eleventh of October, two thousand and two. John met May in the hustle of his happy, full life. Pausing the daily exercising. Exchanging numbers and smiles, the two briefly tucked away from time. Centrum to Eastern Michigan’s heart, ideation began blooming. Tracing began—Finding May and John adoring each other’s warmth inside—if only for two minutes.

Two minutes that day, seconds later next month as John reached a suicidal breaking point, and months forward into 2004.

The girl he was destined to barely know. A Monet-traced beauty. Kind. Sweetly adorable. A thousand budding, poetic lines incapable of capturing May’s immediate place in John’s mind. She’d try to save his life with these two minutes, and later eleven seconds, of her time. A northern star streaking across the Vanilla Sky.

Life Threads – A Memoir

The core of this illuminating memoir consists of threads of consistency and learning that have emerged through Carol’s life experiences. We learn, as she and her sister Linda did, of the constructive optimism of their parents and how that mindset underlies successfully facing life’s struggles. Mistakes can be overcome. The burdens lift. Life is meant for living.With well-balanced sensitivity and striking honesty, she frankly reveals the false starts in her career and her love life and how things worked out in the end. We gain perspective, as she did, through spirited tales of her life experiences.Heart-wrenching events mix with moments of light, hope, and relief. Even the death of loved ones, people, and dogs doesn’t have to be a downward pull, as Carol learned from her dad.Carol has found that angels have an impact on our experiences, too. Although she has never seen an angel, her dogs saw several one evening.Her experiences in finally finding and settling into her career, her love life, and several events that didn’t seem significant, and some that did, all seem to fit together to form those surfacing life threads.

Curtain Call

Frederica Jones divorced her husband of 27 years and moved from Manhattan to Melbourne Beach, Florida, for a new and exhilarating lease on life. Then she learned that her lifelong friend, Lea Gagnon, was newly widowed in Quebec, Canada, where she had spent her married life and had recently been diagnosed with dementia.Throughout the novel she battles the question of how much she is willing to sacrifice of her own remaining life for the comfort and solace of her beloved friend. What do we owe those we love who are felled by this most horrible disease?Frederica steps into Lea’s life as Lea’s sister forfeits that responsibility, and she is left with untangling a legal mystery centering on Oliver Gagnon, Lea’s stepson, who appears to have full legal control of Lea’s life.Frederica will have to go to Quebec, Canada, to confront Oliver Gagnon. That is where the novel truly begins.

My Name Is My Soul

To have a name is to have a soul (Ɔkra), and to have a soul is to exist as a conscious living being. Meaning, every soul has a day of ascendency (Krada) as an extrinsic agency with a unique name (Kradzin) and characteristic attributes leading to a spiritual life during adulthood.

As an extrinsic phenomenon, the soul survives death not as a human being, but rather as a spiritual personality called Ɔsaman. It is this posthumous abstract personality (Ɔsaman) that is recalled by name and remembered periodically by the Akan and kindred African peoples.

Far from being ancestor worship, the ancestors are rather remembered (Nkai) in all matters of state. That is, the Akan recall and remember their resurrected dead (Nsamanfo) and the Ancestors (Nananom Nsamanfo) as though they were still living members of the community.

Indeed, Africans worship souls, but it is the eternal souls of God, the Abosom (Gods and Goddesses), that Africans and Black diasporic Africans worship directly as custodians of the world at the behest of God.

The Squirrel Lo and His Friend the Narrator – Book 1

Lo, a curious squirrel, discovers that he can understand all the stories told by the mysterious Narrator, stories that emerge from a special box of tales.Together, Lo and the Narrator embark on a journey, traveling from one country to another in search of something the Narrator desperately wants to find. But as they travel, Lo begins to sense that something is watching him. And the Narrator is keeping a secret – one that could change everything.What is the Narrator hiding? And what mysteries await in their adventures?Find out in The Squirrel Lo and His Friend the Narrator – Book 1.

Memoirs of a Spanish Duck

If you were a duck and suddenly found yourself in the middle of the big city of Madrid, Spain, how would you survive? This is the story of a beautiful brown duck, Pit, and his many adventures and misadventures while facing the possibility that his life may soon end. There is real drama in the plight of knowing that you might end up on the dinner table. Pit is full of bravado but essentially scared, facing a dangerous world. He is funny and inventive as he tries to exert control over his fate.

The story will appeal to children of all ages who like animals and to those interested in life in a different country. It will also appeal to parents who are interested in the right of animals to be treated humanely.

Fouzia’s Great Scarf Misadventure

Twirly spins, daring jumps, and sparkly dresses! Fouzia loves figure skating, and her dream is finally coming true. All she needs is a scarf to complete her dream outfit. Immediately, her entire family sets out to help with the perfect scarf solution. Fouzia is lucky to have such a caring family. But what’s the worst that could happen? Sometimes, too many opinions can be as bad as tripping on your toe pick! What might work for them isn’t right for her! How will Fouzia survive this tangled fiasco on the ice?