My Special Place Today

My Special Place Today is a continuation of “My Special Place.” From a small girl growing up in a family where there is no unity between parents, and children or between sisters and brothers. This young girl learns many of life’s lessons that take her from the innocence of a child into her adult years where she struggles to make her life in to something that matters. Does she deem herself unfit to be a loving daughter, mother, and wife. Yet throughout her life she struggles to understand the spirituality of her faith. Through her faith in God she reaches out to people of all kinds, the sick, the healthy, the intelligent, and also the happy and the sad. We come to know Deanne as a woman who has been exposed to mental illness and through all her trials we read her story of how she learns to open up herself to those who can learn from her experiences. Her journeys are heart wrenching and truthful with the subtlety of human emotion.

“My Special Place” is a story of a young girl living in a world of naivety in a deeply dysfunctional family from Massachusetts. As she grows she does not understand the realities of life and soon she finds these realities shattering her unawareness of what life has to offer. The story takes you through her younger years to her developmental years as a teenager and into adulthood searching her life for the meaning of family love. This young girl is a story told about my life as I remember it to be. I share myself with the reader in hopes that they may see a piece of themselves at a time in their own life when these unseen factors made them the person they are today.

Stacey doesn’t want to merely fit in. She is seeking a special place under the sun. Eighteen-year old Stacey is deeply shaken when her father passes away. Struggling to come to terms with this loss and her mother’s remarriage, she writes heart touching letters to her dear daddy, recounting everyday happenings and wishing he was by her side through all the good and the bad times. Stacey’s candid and emotional reflections bring to light the insecurities of adolescents, the expectations of society, the adventures with her friends, the close bond she shares with her little sister and elder stepbrother, and her awkward relationship with her stepdad. Written in an epistolary format, Finding My Special Place is a poignant revelation of the mind of a teenager who stands her ground in an opinionated world.

See the world through the eyes of some of the most celebrated and admired people of our time in this engaging new travel book. Award-winning author and National Geographic Traveler writer Jerry Camarillo Dunn takes you on a remarkable journey with such amazing and diverse figures as Sandra Day O’Connor and the Dalai Lama, actors Robin Williams and Morgan Freeman, astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Sally Ride, explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau, real estate mogul Donald Trump, entertainer Jerry Seinfeld, food guru Alice Waters, and author Tony Hillerman. His simple question to these people: What is your favorite travel discovery? The answers are both surprising and engaging—ranging from Bali Indonesia to a well-used bench at San Francisco’s Crissy Field, from the Hopi Mesas in Arizona to the Old City of Jerusalem. In page after page, celebrated contributors describe the special appeal of each place—be it the amazing beauty, or the character of the people, or simply the hushed joy of solitude. To enhance the stories further, Dunn scoured the files of National Geographic to create sidebars full of intriguing information about each place—and even steers you to websites that tell how you can visit them yourself. But the real allure is the entertaining narrative, inviting readers to experience the excitement of traveling with these celebrated personalities to their favorite places on Earth. For a complete list of contributing authors and more information, visit the author's website at www.myfavoriteplacenatgeo.com.

About The Book Hope, is a continuation of; My Special Place, and My Special Place, Today. It is the memoirs of a small girl growing up in a highly dysfunctional family where unity between parents and children doesnt exist. This young girl succumbs to traumas and tragedies that lead her down a path where she is deluged with mental illness. Does she deem herself unfit to be a loving daughter, mother, and wife? Yet throughout her life she struggles to understand the spirituality of her faith. Through her faith in God she reaches out to people of all kinds, the sick, the healthy, the intelligent, and also the happy and the sad. Deannes life continues to take her through those times that break her heart with bouts of major depression and anxiety. But with each episode Deanne finds the strength to overcome her illness through the many mental health workers, her friends and her family and through Our Lord Jesus Christ. Her journeys are heart wrenching and truthful with the subtlety of human emotion.

Best-selling author Adele Fiderer presents a series of mini-lessons to help students move from writing single paragraphs to crafting mutli-paragraph pieces. Each mini-lesson introduces an important element of good paragraph writing, such as crafting topic and body sentences that pack a punch, writing smooth transitions, and paragraphing dialogue. Includes super student models gathered from the author's long career as a classroom teacher.

Many very intelligent people, including managers at all levels are a failure. Why? Their I. Q. is high but their emotional intelligence is low. Reengineering yourself teaches you how to become more productive and happier in the process. How? By practicing different mind exercises 7you raise your awareness ceiling so you are aware of your reactions, 7you become more effective in your thinking and in your communication, you develop your hidden creativity destroying negativism from the past,7you use your talents and time more effectively to make your work better and easier,7you acquire the habit of excellence in your thinking and actions..What Reengineering Yourself presents to you was tested by Araoz and Sutton in their many years of leader formation in the corporate world, in the church and in the U. S. army. The authors have reached thousands of people who believe their lives have changed for the better thanks to the methods of Reengineering Yourself. The approach is eclectic, drawing from diverse sources of proven success in the fields of management training, psychology, sociology, learning theory and philosophy. Therefore this is not a book for you to read once and put back on the shelf. Rather it is ?a blueprint for personal success? that you?ll use as a manual to which you return frequently. Also the ?practices? found throughout its pages are meant to create in you new habits of excellence and power thoughts.Any intelligent person realizes that there is room for improvement in our lives, both professional and personal. Reengineering Yourself is another tool for self-enrichment and improved productivity. The wise person tries and applies a new method that has been successful for manyothers.