This book is my very first book and publication to the masses. It is about my personal story and journey as a premature baby, who was only given 30 days to live, born into a rural, low-middle class family in Tennessee to become a College Graduate, Father, Husband, Loyal Friend, Established Engineer and Manager of […] Read more

Rosie looked up into the deluge and just laughed. She must’ve been even more drunk than Frank had thought, so he grabbed her by the hand and pulled her, and together they ran for the shelter. It was pointless–they were already soaked–running wouldn’t keep them from getting any more wet. Still, the sound of her […] Read more

Isabella had wrapped her face, her neck, and was beginning to relax in the spray of deliciously warm water over her body when suddenly — there he was again! An ugly grinning face peered at her not a meter away from her own face, with one big fist gripping an iron bar, so he could […] Read more

Novalee Nation, seventeen, seven months pregnant, thirty-seven pounds overweight—and superstitious about sevens—shifted uncomfortably in the seat of the old Plymouth and ran her hands down the curve of her belly. For most people, sevens were lucky. But not for her. She’d had a bad history with them, starting with her seventh birthday, the day Mama […] Read more

The night wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another and another his mother called him “WILD THING!” and Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything. That very night in Max’s room a forest grew and grewand grew until his ceiling hung with […] Read more

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without […] Read more

Religion, particularly organized religion, provides many people with a sense of purpose and community. As we discussed in Chapter 12, religious communities can have many beneficial effects and often sit at the core of a person’s cultural identity, but that does not make the claims of those religions true. In reality, religion itself does not […] Read more

From Better Homes and Gardens In 1960, 5.8 million American kids lived in single-parent families. Today, that number has more than tripled, to an astonishing 18 million. Another figure is equally startling: nearly 40 percent of our children don’t live in the same home as their biological father. Today, the number of kids whose parents […] Read more

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an […] Read more