Polliwog Hunting

This is a story about Darkness. It’s also a story about Light. It is in essence a memoir and a diary woven together by flashes of memories. There is a learning through those memories that sometimes Light can be shadowed by the Dark.

This is a story about a family. A family that was hindered in being all it could have been because of the Darkness. One that was intermittent in its visits and left radically affected souls in its wake.

This is my story. A story about an ordinary young girl in a seemingly normal family. It is a glimpse into and a reflection of the memories I have sorted through in my journey into healing. It is a story about bravery and learning to live fully in the aftermath. There is much power within courageous healing and the hope that can unfold with it.

Is It Possible to Embrace Seniority with Optimism and Happiness?

Embrace the golden years with a renewed sense of vigor and understanding in this enlightening exploration of seniority. This book delves deep into the intricate relationship between optimism, health, and aging, drawing from both personal experiences and broad statistical insights. Learn how factors such as one’s cultural background, specifically the rise of immigrant seniors in the U.S., shape the aging experience, contrasting them with the socio-politico-economic intricacies of Latin American countries.

Uncover the ever-evolving dynamics of senior care, from the intricacies of love relationships among older couples to the stark disparities between genders, both in health risks and societal expectations. This is juxtaposed against the author’s empowering journey of proactive healthcare and wellness. Recognize the transformative power of systematic exercising in bolstering self-assurance, happiness, and most importantly, joy. With philosophical insights from the likes of Aristotle and more, discover how inner joy, consistent self-care, and embracing one’s strengths and weaknesses play pivotal roles in enriching the experience of seniority.

This guide invites you on a journey of self-discovery, offering a fresh perspective on aging with a harmonious blend of optimism, health, and profound happiness.

Humanity in Trouble and Our Failure to Act

Mankind is on a crash course with destiny and doesn’t seem to have a clue! We are witnessing rapidly accelerating global warming of our own making that could potentially result in species extinctions, including our own. Witness widespread signs of the impending disaster including super storms, record drought, floods, forest fires and climate refugees. Dangerous nuclear saber rattling by Russia and North Korea is on the upswing and the Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to expand to Western Europe. The increasing number of fascist, autocratic, dictator-run states such as China, North Korea, Turkey, and Brazil are snuffing individual freedoms, denying social justice and fanning the flames of global conflict.  The world’s population is rapidly approaching eight billion and is well past the point of Earth’s ability to sustain us. Crushing poverty, starvation, and dozens of militarized religious and ethnic conflicts. We have polluted our planet with toxic chemicals, oil spills, reckless dumping of trash on land and sea, contaminating the oceans with fish and fowl killing plastic waste.

This book is the result of overwhelming outrage and disappointment with our species, our failure to adequately address worldwide problems that threaten our very existence. We (if there is a ‘we’) should be embarrassed and ashamed. Nature has endowed us with near perfect bodies and amazing brains and for the most part we squander our evolutionary inheritance. And the greatest gift of all, consciousness, is under-developed in most of us. In this collection of essays, the author offers insights into the human condition, the reasons we have run afoul of the natural order, along solutions to alleviate human suffering on an individual and global scale plus some playful jabs at our human folly.

Gen. Park Chung-Hee and South Korea’s Han River Miracle

Gen. Park Chung-Hee was born to a poor family in rural Korea when Japan ruled the nation as a colony. After teaching at a rural elementary school for three years, he studied at three different military academies to become an army officer in the liberated Korea. Although he encountered a career-threatening crisis right before the outbreak of the Korean War, he returned to the service and served many key staff positions during the war and important command positions after the war with devoted professionalism. When the nation drifted rudderless in the 1960s, he led the military revolution as the last resort. Hence forth he headed the government that was steadfastly focused on rebuilding the nation. His administration laid the extensive, future-oriented foundation for the nation’s industrial development and advanced defense capability. Gen. Park lived his life aligned with, to the letter, his personal motto: ‘My Whole Life to Fatherland.’

My Family’s Godly Road

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
– John 3:17

To get to the Heavenly Father…
You must believe in Jesus…
That he lived and died for you.
No matter the religious road you go down, you must accept Jesus as your savior…

This book chronicles the many roles the author played within the church and how her journey impacted the lives of those around her. From Sunday school teacher to Usher, and eventually marrying a preacher, her dedication to her faith and community is woven throughout her story. It also serves as a heartfelt tribute to her family, including her grandson Malachi, who became a deacon, and her granddaughter Delisia, whose solo performances touched the congregation. Through her experiences, the book highlights the profound life lessons that the church instilled in her and her loved ones.

The Secret Bombs of Iva Valley

This book is the first true and full account of the 34 months of weapons manufacturing activities of Biafra’s “Research and Armaments Production” (RAP).

RAP was secretly nucleated and named by an Arrowhead Troika of engineers in March 1967, following privileged information on Nigeria’s war preparations, goaded by Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister. The Troika’s mentor was a brave gentleman officer, Major Louis Chude Sokei, who established a Military Wing of the Troika’s RAP and named its only regular commissioned officer (this author) as the Head.

The university community and the organized private sector personnel joined the Troika four/five months later, and RAP’s weapons output soared exponentially. The Military Wing regularly deployed RAP’s weapons directly to the various field commands, along with its specialized weapon firing crews of soldiers. An account of the eight fiercest battles of the entire campaign is given in fair detail. Similarly, a brief description of twelve of the most intrepid Biafran officers and men is given.

The incredible mystery of the war is how the five-week-old Biafran Army, totally bereft of all ordnance and using its own manufactured weapons, without Navy or Air Force, managed to keep at bay, for thirty-four months, Nigeria’s gargantuan coalition with Britain and Soviet Russia, which was commanded by Britain’s General Alexander, until both sides became exhausted and a political gimmick of surrender was contrived by Gowon and Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first President. How Biafra achieved this incredible feat is what this book is about.

Land of the Brave

How did you become a sister? This is an overarching question that many people ask me. Behind becoming a sister is an amazing story.

Everyone in the world has a unique story. This book narrates the unique story of my life and the origins of my desire to become a sister.

My story started in Lirembe village in Kenya and continued on as I ventured to the new land of the United States of America for studies and work. In the book, I describe the places, people, religion, and events that shaped my social, religious, moral, and ethical perspectives.

This description intends to capture readers’ imaginations, emotions, and feelings about the origins of some of the African women religious, clergy, and brothers and, by extension, many people worldwide who resonate with my story. The thick description also illustrates what it means to be formed into and become a religious African woman living in Africa and abroad and how international students navigate their lives in US colleges and workplaces.

The book also compares and contrasts the African and American cultures, underscoring the nuances, dynamics, resonances, and consonances between the two cultures.

This is a Thanksgiving book.

The Great Expanse of You

The Great Expanse of You is a journey of discovery that uses the creational power of faith, drawn from the reader’s inherent divinity, to create a life of joy, love, gratitude, and prosperity. The power of faith to create one’s great expanse is a formidable force of transformation. The author walks side by side with the reader as they progress from novice to expert to harness the creational power to create the life they have always wanted.

The journey into one’s great expanse requires the reader to surrender and engage the totality of their being for their great expanse to come to fruition. This journey is no small undertaking, as it encompasses significant changes within the conscious and unconscious mind, the body and the spirit to comprehend, use and exist with this newly acquired creative power.

For those who are willing to step into the breach of their existential self and under the love and direction of the author’s philosophical and practical teachings, the reader’s life will transform beyond measure from the life they are currently living into their great expanse, which lovingly awaits them as they choose it and will it into existence.

Through Less Than Perfect Eyes

Through Less Than Perfect Eyes follows the life journey of Keith Canty, exploring the challenges and triumphs he faced from childhood to adulthood. Raised by a single mother in a low-income household, Keith encountered many trials and tribulations along the way.

This book reveals how he persevered through adversity, overcoming obstacles that seemed insurmountable. Through it all, his unwavering belief in the Creator of the Multiverse became his source of strength, guiding him through life’s hardships.

A story of resilience, faith, and determination, Through Less Than Perfect Eyes is an inspiring testament to the power of perseverance and belief in something greater.

Long Waka with Jesus

In Long Waka with Jesus, Dr Gaston Nyabul di Kanza Mabaya retraces his steps from the days when he was a young lector and altar server in the Church in Yasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), through the academic halls of Belgium, to the pulpits of the Roman Catholic Diocese of London in Canada.

It sometimes happens in our lives that we wonder about God’s presence. We ask ourselves a thousand and one questions. Why, for instance, does God allow this or that to happen? In Dr Mabaya’s case, the question arose several times. On each occasion, God proved to be present and faithful. Like most of us, he often asked himself this question again and again: “Where has my God gone?” especially when knowing how difficult a situation could be.

Long Waka with Jesus brings to light all the blessings which have encompassed the world of Dr Gaston Nyabul di Kanza Mabaya throughout his life.

Whatever stage you are at spiritually, you need to examine your life with God in a private moment of recollection. You will discover His marvels. He is among us, His children, waiting for us to make ourselves available and take His hand, which He offers us graciously. He will show you what is most meaningful in your life.

He loves you. In His company, none of you would feel alone. His love is unwavering.

Married to the Foreign Service

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1931, and orphaned at an early age, Evelyn Lee Dyer joined the US Foreign Service in the mid-1950s and soon found herself in the heart of the Cold War, among bustling diplomatic communities in Istanbul, Bonn, Prague, Leningrad, Moscow, and Geneva, as well as in Washington, DC, and often in crisis conditions. She tells her story in an unpretentious style, filled with vivid anecdotes and character descriptions, with a feeling for the grand sweep of history as lived through by ordinary people.

There are plenty of Cold War memoirs by public figures, most of them men. This memoir by a working-class Southern woman brings to life an entire generation of postwar Americans, whose destinies followed an upward arc from the regional into the global.

Evolving with the Infinite

Evolving with the Infinite is an impressive, scholarly, thought-provoking examination of the purpose of life and humanity’s role in the cosmos. It is a courageous quest for answers to life’s ultimate questions. The material in Evolving with the Infinite presents a fresh coherent theory of a worldview that builds bridges between science and spirituality, a new paradigm of reality that brings together science, philosophy, metaphysics, theology, cosmology, psychology, sociology in a logical systems-view of All-that-Is. If the author had to choose a single subject field, it would be: “Philosophy.”

Read and learn about:

Life after physical death
Personal and cosmic evolution
The urgent need for a wisdom society
Divine powers of love, wisdom, and logic
The mysteries of life; its meaning and purpose
Spiritual consciousness versus physical awareness
A map for conquering fear and gaining personal power
Relationships of spirit, mind, brain, and consciousness
The difference between gods and the spirit of creation
The liberating power of forgiving and letting go
How freedom must be won by personal effort
Life as an opportunity for spiritual growth
Living wisely by the directives of creation
A new cosmology versus the big bang
What truly is love and compassion
The living and evolving omniverse
Unknown, lost civilizations

The book:

Is inspirational and positive but also realistic.
Aims to help readers on their individual paths of evolution.
Makes use of graphics and charts to illuminate important relationships.
Is trans-denominational and aims to heal the rift between science and religions by presenting a holistic and comprehensive worldview.
Clearly distinguishes between information, knowledge, and wisdom. Knowledge is recognizing the truth. Wisdom is living it.
Presents a realistic path toward a wisdom society.
Offers a new and realistic alternative to the Big Bang cosmology.