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There comes a time in your life when you step back and look at yourself. You admire your accomplishments, your triumphs, and your goals attained, and smile with the knowledge that you have reached a level of happiness you had set out for yourself. But then something happens and your world goes into...

The many frames of life can be either simple, beautiful, and quiet, either stormy and agonizing. Each of these frames has its own philosophy based on our everyday decisions. This is what a girl discovers when she becomes angry with those who forced her being someone she was not. She thus realizes...

Many of my poems, prose and other oddities stem from life experience. While others from my vivid imagination. The sketches are from charcoal, pen and other medium. Many of the photos are from my family. Unfortunately they have all passed on and I am the only survivor of 8 children. During my...

The poems in this book were written in three decades. I still have the original handwritten versions which I have kept secretly for myself because I consider them as my "very personal stuff". But as I leaf through the pages again, and again, and again, a "Confetti of Heartstrings" transcends me. Something tells me to share and make at least one more soul happy.

I guess it comes naturally to a person who likes to write to jot down thoughts that come to his mind. This book OH! MY! is a collection of poems that somehow capture those precious moments in written form. For example, a stroll along a beach of the Pacific Ocean made me feel homesick and write Confidential,...

This is Daniel's first book of poetry. All of the poems were written between Winter of 2013 and Summer of 2015. Much of it is inspired by his experiences working on a farm in the Berkshire Mountains. But themes range anywhere from madness to love to appreciation of nature. Daniel hopes you find these poems enlightening and invigorating.

This book is dedicated to my Mum Maureen Turner, who sadly passed away 30th March 2012, who without her this book wouldnt be possible. All her life she wrote many kinds of poems I have picked a selection and had Them put together in this book. I lost both my Mum and Dad...

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It is essential for the reader to remember that this is a memoir; in other words, a record of events based on the authors experiences and feelings. Because of the secrecy restrictions at the time these events occurred, and in some cases for many years thereafter, the author kept no diary, notes, or...

10 years ago if it was deer season, I was in the woods. I still try to follow that rule but New York State has made the hunting season so long, I cant afford the loss of income for that amount of time. On top of that, 70 or more days open for deer season is a wicked strain on my senses. I am hung...

Walleye was originally intended to allow professionals and touring promotional fishermen the advantage of planning their time on the water ahead of schedule. Chapter Four is the only chapter to consider spending your time on if the above applies to you. If you are among the other ninety percent of...

As the US and Cuba move closer to establishing normal relations, greater opportunities open up for travel to this mysterious and beautiful Caribbean island nation. The countrys capital, Havana, is itself going through a transition. Habana Vieja, the old city of Havana, dates back nearly five hundred...

Over a Cup of Coffee is the autobiography of a remarkable woman, Amparo Calvo Echeverria. Born at the time of the Spanish Republic, her memoirs cover the period of the Civil War to the present day. Her troubled relationship with her mother pervades the text, made clear from the outset with an outpouring...

This book is dedicated to those who have been told they would never succeed. I tell you differently believe in yourself and see how far you soar.