Love is impossible to understand in its entirety, especially when we are in love with someone else. Distant lover is a walk through three stages of love and how we find ourselves trapped in its grip, struggling to make sense of where to go and how to get there.

Set in the Rose City of Portland, Oregon, the All-4-Love series evolves around Alley's wacky relationship toggles and family issues. Sure, typical family problems can be repeated snores when it comes to reading, but I've taken it to wild and crazy heights and it should keep all readers glued to the end. Distant Lover is about protagonist Alley's yearning for someone that seems hard to reel in. He yearns for Lavida Jones, but she is entangled in parenting, job, and ex-fiancé problems. The story opens with Alley being the ultimate, unemployed, and complete loser. Not only is Alley suddenly blessed with finding job security, he meets his distant lover on a bus. Together, Alley and Lavida survive all the wacky challenges: A stalking bum that eventually cleans up his alcoholic behaviors, returns to the bottle, and ends up dead by the end of Distant Lover. The gangster son of Lavida, who threatened to shoot Alley if marriage came up, ends up shot and finds that Jesus is his best friend. The ex-fiancé and part time Jamaican pimp, Robert, ends up the most hated villain you'll ever read about.

Tandi Crawford feels trapped in a sexless, loveless marriage to her husband Jared. She begins to fantasise about a boy she dated when she was seventeen, turning a blind eye to the good man her husband is. She takes her son and flees her marriage, ending up on her father's doorstep - a place she vowed never to return to. Old grudges are ignited and Tandi is forced to send her son home to her husband, becoming trapped in her father's home when the old man has a stroke. Tandi turns to her best friend Evonne for support - but Evonne is after Tandi's husband.

Does it count as a long-distance relationship if you live together? Whenever Morgan Shultz contemplates marriage, she totally freaks out. Oh, she has her reasons, and they have nothing to do with love. Or sex. Seriously, rabbits would be jealous of how often she and Cooper do it. But relationships require more than the hot and heavy, and there’s another important aspect that’s seriously lacking in their relationship. If things don’t change, she won’t have to worry about their future anymore because her relationship status will change from practically-long-distance to seriously single. Cooper Youngblood is a numbers guy. His life is filled with identifying risks and probable outcomes, but on his latest business trip, he quickly learns just how badly he miscalculated everything. Something is off with his girlfriend, and the new prospective client is interested in more than his spreadsheets. Morgan turns up the heat, but Cooper is busy dodging the fire.

Franz Schubert's song cycles Schone Mullerin and Winterreise are cornerstones of the genre. But as Richard Kramer argues in this book, Schubert envisioned many other songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By carefully studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain. Returning the songs to their original keys, Kramer reveals linkages among songs which were often obscured as Schubert readied his compositions for publication. His analysis thus conveys even familiar songs in fresh contexts that will affect performance, interpretation, and criticism. After addressing problems of multiple settings and revisions, Kramer presents a series of briefs for the reconfiguring of sets of songs to poems by Goethe, Rellstab, and Heine. He deconstructs Winterreise, using its convoluted origins to illuminate its textual contradictions. Finally, Kramer scrutinizes settings from the Abendrote cycle (on poems by Friedrich Schlegel) for signs of cyclic process. Probing the farthest reaches of Schubert's engagement with the poetics of lieder, Distant Cycles exposes tensions between Schubert the composer and Schubert the merchant-entrepreneur.

Presents the complete lyrics to over one hundred Motown love songs, grouped into such categories as lessons of love, the joy of love, and love lost, and including "I'll Be There," "My Girl," and "Please Mr. Postman."

As titled, "Soul Seeds" explores elemental functions of thought, reasoning and reality. It analyzes life and how each of the seeds sustains or defeats the soul and the need for personal discipline and appreciation. The imagery gathers in one basket the different emotions that paint a closest matter of attention to the mind state and collectedness. It is a reflection of situations. Scattered thoughts are thrown into an imagery of life through a natural psycho-philosophical analysis. The book seeks to promote nature, culture, love, kindness, forgiveness and spiritual freedom. The tone of each word is natural and expressive, to give a creative setting of inference and engage the mind that matters or bothers to. The book testifies that written art is created from any life circumstance.

Journey to Self: Journey to Love is a collection of personal poems, thoughts, and blog entries from my journey through love. In searching for love, I've continued to make a full circle back to myself and my Creator. Some of the stories are sad and some funny, but all are worth sharing. It is my hope that lives will be touched and changed by seeing the authenticity of my experiences and perceptions. I'm not afraid of the truth; it is what sets me free During my short 30 years of life, I've experienced so much about love and relationships. I trust that we all have experienced our fair share. What if your experiences and being healed from the lessons learned are a part of your assignment from God? Now who signs up for heartache and pain? Not one of us. If these experiences can be used to help a younger generation or to help heal another, I'm ready to share. What I've learned about love is that it is a journey just like life! Sure it hasn't all been roses and it hasn't all been heartache, but it has been a road that has led me back to my first love; God, my Creator. This is the refreshing part of the journey. This is the part of the journey where all of Heaven and the Angels rejoice in knowing that we have remembered the One who first loved us. There is no greater love. So I say that, love is a journey where you go searching and ultimately find yourself. You find the God that is within and the God who created you. You remember what you were born to do! Thank you for taking the time out to travel this journey with me!

Born to Be Blessed Transformation is a collection of poetry about Trials Adventures Relationships: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Healing and Unconditional Love It is separated into five chapters taking readers through a journey which depicts adversity, but most importantly triumph. Reminding readers that although life has challenges, a true champion will always prevail.