The Footprints Of My Life

Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy feels "double different." She is Vietnamese American and she has two moms. Thuy walks home one winter afternoon, angry and lonely after a bully's taunts. Then a bird catches her attention and sets Thuy on an imaginary exploration. What if she could fly away like a bird? What if she could sprint like a deer, or roar like a bear? Mimicking the footprints of each creature in the snow, she makes her way home to the arms of her moms. Together, the three of them imagine beautiful and powerful creatures who always have courage - just like Thuy.

Most of Harden’s life has been as a writer — a writer of facts in the news departments of radio, television and newspapers. “With all that factual writing, I thought what I was about to attempt would be vastly diffferent,” he said. “However, I learned otherwise. This book is also about facts — and the very life I’ve lived is certainly a fact.” After four years in the U.S. Air Force, his next step was into broadcasting. Trained as an annoucer, he later moved into the news departments and both wrote and voiced the news. During his long career, he also worked in television and as a newspaper writer/photographer. “Having written most of my adult life, I felt I could quickly and easily write of my family’s history”, Harden said, “but this was the most difi cult task I ever attempted. And, as it turned out, what I had written was more of an autobiography.” What’s next for Harden’s pencil? He says he wants to try writing fi ction. He plans to write a novel about a now-lost love of motorcycling. It will actually be an adventure/murder/suspense tale with a woman protagonist and he has already collected many pages of notes. Asked when the novel would be ready for readers, Harden smiled and said, “I can only say as mother’s have always told their children, “We’ll just have to wait and see”

Saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter has not only left his footprints on our musical terrain, he has created a body of work that is a monument to artistic imagination. Throughout Shorter's extraordinary fifty-year career, his compositions have helped define the sounds of each distinct era in the history of jazz. Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop to pop, an intimate and moving biography, and a story of a man's struggle toward the full realization of his gifts and of himself.

Footprints Of A Pilgrim is Ruth Bell Graham's life story told in her own words (weaving together her prose and poetry) with added tidbits and anecdotes from her family (husband Billy and her children Gigi, Anne, Franklin, Ruth and Ned) and many of her friends (including Barbara Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Jan Karon, Patricia Cornwell and others). With snatches of insight and glimpses of grace, Footprints Of A Pilgrim tells the story of a life (a very full and special life) complete with memories of joy, pain, brokenness, and healing. Also included are many never before published pictures which illustrate the remarkable journey of Ruth Bell Graham, as a child of a missionaries in Quingjiang, China in 1920, until today at her home in Little Piney Cove, Montreat, North Carolina.

When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvellous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey would be driven by a similar devotion to study the behaviour of wild apes. In Smitten by Giraffe the noted feminist reflects on her scientific work as well as the leading role she has played in numerous activist campaigns. On returning home to Canada, Anne married physicist Ian Dagg, had three children, published a number of scientific papers, taught at several local universities, and in 1967 earned her PhD in biology at the University of Waterloo. Dagg was continually frustrated in her efforts to secure a position as a tenured professor despite her many publications and exemplary teaching record. Finally she opted instead to pursue her research as an independent “citizen scientist,” while working part-time as an academic advisor. Dagg would spend many years fighting against the marginalization of women in the arts and sciences. Boldly documenting widespread sexism in universities while also discussing Dagg’s involvement with important zoological topics such as homosexuality, infanticide, sociobiology, and taxonomy, Smitten by Giraffe offers an inside perspective on the workings of scientific research and debate, the history of academia, and the rise of second-wave feminism. A new preface relates Dagg’s experience as the subject of the documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.

This is a book that shares Poems about family and friendship.

Margaret Fishback Powers wrote the famous poem “Footprints” in 1964 at a time when she was a young woman searching for direction in her life. Since then, “Footprints” has provided inspiration for millions of people around the world. Now, The Footprints Book of Daily Inspirations brings together thoughts that will inspire you through every day of the year, with an extra bit of inspiration for the year to come. Margaret has collected 366 quotes, meditations and sayings that she has written herself or that have special meaning to her, and she has compiled them here for readers. Uplifting and certain to inspire a quiet moment of self-reflection—and perhaps even a smile or two—this wonderful treasury is a beautiful gift from a woman whose life and work have touched lives across Canada and around the world. February 18 Loving others is so important to fulfilling our potential as human beings.... But loving is hard and scary. It is risky, because our love can go unacknowledged, unrewarded and even rejected. But to become the fullest manifestations of ourselves, we must love others despite the risks. August 22 When you find yourself in a position of need, choose to allow others to experience the blessing that comes from giving, and let yourself be the tool through which that blessing comes. —From The Footprints Book of Daily Inspirations

The story of Rhoda Peace Tumusiime is an inspirational and captivating journey of a girl who grew up in a remote village in Uganda and a family with marginal resources but also in a society where girls were married off at a tender age. The reader is able to walk with her right from her birthplace through her school life until she makes her way to the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa a Pan African institution the African Union where she is now holding an elective position of Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture. Hers is a story that proves that irrespective of one’s background and station in life, with the least of resources and support, if one has the hope, courage and determination to succeed, the sky is the limit.