Backyard Rehabbing

“Save some for Inky,” the Roper children chant at meal times after their father found and brought home an abandoned baby crow. Two years later, their parents find an injured wild bird, take it to a wildlife rehabilitator, and begin the process of becoming rehabilitators themselves. What they find is that the most difficult part of rehabbing is not working with the birds. The public, who know little about wild birds, can hamper a bird’s healing and even become a danger to their lives.

...a man saw an injured pigeon... “But I didn’t touch it,” the man said. “I didn’t want to catch rabies.” I explained to the man that rabies can be caught from...wild and domestic animals. Birds...cannot catch nor carry rabies. I then asked the man to pick up the bird and bring it to us in a covered box. “You want me to touch that bird?” the man asked...and hung up.

An injured bird may need immediate attention from the person who found it, and that could be YOU! Suggestions are included as to how to help the birds.

And So, We Dance

In And So, We Dance, Leigh loses herself in memories of her life and her wife’s cancer journey. The novel started out as a memoir, and then I began to hear Leigh (LL) and Lizzie’s (LiLiz) inner children talk to me. The magical elements that emerged soften the tragedy of losing a loved one. Blending emotional intimacy with quiet surrealism, the story explores lesbian love, grief, and the inner selves we call forth to help us navigate when everything else is lost.

Leigh finally comes out of the closet where she had lived since she was 15. She meets and marries the love of her life, Lizzie, only to face a battle much worse than closet dwelling. Lizzie’s cancer diagnosis turns their lives upside down. As Leigh loses herself in her memories, she finds her inner child in the body of a six-year-old hitchhiking on the highway, waiting for her. Little Leigh (LL) tries to help her through the battle she and Lizzie fight. Lizzie’s inner child, LiLiz, also joins, and the four struggle against the Stranger, cancer, who threatens their lives.

The author holds a PhD from Emory University, has studied under Anya Auchtenberg, and is a member of a weekly writing group and Pitch to Published. She is a published poet, and her book is entitled Journeys.

TWID – Traveling, Wondering, Imaginative, Dweller

Lillian Longwood is my name. I was nearly turning 13 when I discovered the truth. Changing one’s perspective thoughts only teaches your mind far greater than you or I could ever imagine. Understanding greater knowledge of the unknown that was finally known was far beyond an adventure but a whole new beginning for not just myself but for everyone that is a traveling, wondering, imaginative dweller. Anybody with a creative ability to create or anyone with any kind of talent whatsoever is a Twid. Everyone with no talent or no imagination is called an Unimaginative Dweller. The mysterious within one world brought into our own world you will never know until you open this book. Many adventures bring together friendships and family within this book.

Main Character Energy

Unlock your potential and become the hero of your own story.

In a world where many people live on autopilot, following the expectations and scripts set by others, it’s time to break free and step into your true power. Main Character Energy: Reclaim Your Life and Live Authentically is your ultimate guide to transforming your mindset and embracing a life filled with purpose, confidence, and joy.

Inside this book, you’ll:

• Learn how societal conditioning and personal experiences can trap you in the NPC (Non-Playable Character) mindset, and identify the signs that you’re living someone else’s script. • Develop self-awareness and adopt a growth-oriented, main character mindset that empowers you to take control of your destiny.

• Establish healthy boundaries and integrate essential self-care practices into your daily routine to protect your well-being and fuel your success.

• Craft a compelling life story that reflects your true values, passions, and goals. Visualize and manifest your desired future with clarity and confidence.

• Create actionable plans, build effective routines, and stay accountable to your goals. Learn how to adapt and thrive through challenges and setbacks.

• Connect with like-minded individuals and communities that provide encouragement, accountability, and inspiration on your journey.

• Stay ahead with emerging practices and innovative tools that support your growth and well-being.

Empower yourself with the tools, strategies, and mindset shifts needed to reclaim your life and live authentically. Main Character Energy is not just a book; it’s a transformative journey to becoming the hero of your own story. Step into your power and transform your life today!

Where Did You Go, Mr. Black?

Have you ever wondered where your cat goes when they are outside? Do they go to the neighbor’s house and ask for food? Do they spend time with other cats? Do they chase birds? Do they run away from dogs?Where do our cats go and why are they so curious about the outside world? But worst of all, where do they go and what happens to them when they disappear for too long?Do they go on vacation?

New Horizons in Astrology

Couture offers a transpersonal view of astrology. Rather than the planets’ apparent position to the Earth, he places them in position to the Sun. This would be a heliocentric view, and his work is dedicated to being of help for humanity in the development of a non-dualistic spirituality. This view is supported by the development of the quantum scientific viewpoint. I highly recommend this detailed view of astrology that promotes a sense of universal connectedness and interdependence, including empathy, social responsibility, and ethical action.

Justine Willis Toms

Co-founder, Creative Producer, Host

New Dimensions Radio

Revolutionary Voices from the American Presidents' Slave Houses

After securing independence, America’s Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to draft a Constitution. Article II, Section I vested executive power in a president, an office to be filled by the will of "We the People." The judgment of each president would prove critical to the grand experiment of American democracy.Yet, from 1789 to 1865, every single president personally accepted or permitted the continuation of American slavery—a vile and brutal system that used generations of enslaved people as free labor to fuel the nation’s economy, offering no reparations upon its violent end.Revolutionary Voices from the American Presidents’ Slave Houses offers a critical analysis of each administration, exposing the stark contradiction between the nation’s professed ideals of liberty and its presidential endorsement of slavery. The book centers the revolutionary voices of the enslaved and their descendants, who spoke truth to power through resistance and upheld a vision of a nation truly “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Mists of Time

Devastation, lies, deceit.

An ancient evil returns.

Enter a world ablaze with fire, where ancient dragons soar amidst the wrath of vengeful gods, and a father’s insidious hunger for power eclipses all else, casting a somber shadow over his forsaken child. Within this forsaken realm, the air thickens with the stench of death and ruination, ensnaring her in its grasp.

Driven onward by a fervent love intertwined with an unyielding longing, she navigates through desolation, her path shrouded in dark enchantments that threaten to consume her very soul. In this harrowing tapestry, where desolation reigns and malevolent forces weave their wicked webs, she stands as a solitary figure, torn between the survival of her own fragile existence and the desperate struggle to avert ten thousand years of abysmal darkness that looms over all.

Battles of yore remain etched upon the fabric of time, their echoes reverberating through the ages, while the ancient witches, thought banished, rise once more from their slumber. Yet, amidst this landscape of treacherous machinations, the seeds of betrayal find fertile ground to sprout anew.

Delve into the enigmatic labyrinth born from the visionary mind of the acclaimed author of Gateway, where illusions dance with reality, casting sinister shadows upon the world. Brace yourself for a descent into a realm of unrelenting gloom, as Mists of Time unveils a tale of grim high fantasy that will chill your soul.

Cliff Dwellers and Careless Divers

THE FEATHERED EDGE

Inner fence

was beyond mending

every animal in the barnyard

went a different way.

Completely connected

but mostly confused

he put the cutters in reverse;

his soul a restless farmer

condemned to farming,

farmed no more.

Weatherman’s poetry is about a poet finding himself. It moves from a romanticization of a past life in Montana, trips to Alaska, and finally to Canada, where he would start a family. His poetry moves toward a mystical detachment from a troubled society and marriage, where his poetry becomes a personal refuge. Finally, he realizes the power of authenticity in our own voice, that we have always had each other, and that the only power we lose is the power we give away.

The Devil's Grapevine

A young woman in the late 1930s became the mother of an illegitimate child. She was living in a small, pious town, which was very judgemental. The conception of her child was by an infamous rapist. Interpol had been chasing him across three continents. There had been hundreds of rapes. His crimes made headlines around the world, and he was soon captured, sentenced to death, and electrocuted. Only the girl, her mother, and the authorities were aware of who impregnated her.

When the boy was three, she and her mother decided she must become anonymous for fear that Roddy may find out that the blood of this monster runs through his veins. Changing her name, she and Roddy leave the past behind and end up in California.

Roddy, now ten, ends up working in an out-of-the-way truck stop in Grapevine Village. Many adventures and complexities lay before them. Love, death, a boy’s fantasies, the FBI. and warring trucking companies transporting Mexican farm workers without proper papers, who are fighting over who controls the rights to use the highway called “The Devil’s Grapevine.”

Roddy and his mother are caught between the FBI and the warring truckers, which ends in a gunfight that ends up burning much of the village to cinders. All works out in the end with the mother, the son, and a truck driver who rescues them from the gunfire and flames.

Mirror Never Lies

Mirror Never Lies is not a memoir that explains. It reveals. Through intimate reflections and sharply observed emotional truths, this book invites the reader into the private space where identity is negotiated, desire is examined, and survival quietly rewires the soul. It is about the versions of ourselves we build to be loved, the masks we polish to be safe, and the cost of carrying them for too long. So, tune in to see this first-generation immigrant gay story.

Written with restraint, precision, and unexpected tenderness, Mirror Never Lies resists easy answers and performative healing. Instead, it lingers in the in-between: the pause before honesty, the ache beneath success, and the moment you realize you’ve outgrown the life that once protected you. These pages explore ambition and loneliness, intimacy and control, and memory and reinvention—without nostalgia and without apology.

Penelope and the LMNOPs

Penelope is happy to meet you; she had so much trouble in early school that she wants to share it with you. She had one particular challenge and a huge imagination, and together it made her learn a great lesson.

One of many great imaginative stories by Professor Goodheart, who inspires young hearts all over the world to play, to imagine, and to learn with fun hearts.