Ethel E. Sims lives in San Diego, CA with her husband of over 30 years. "Living life and working together in the Lord" is their life long pleasure. They are The Elect, called to church family leadership and social ministry development. They enjoy Christian music, travelling, and reading. They have one son, two daughters, two sons-in-love and three beautiful MeMe- BeBe girls, all living in Southern California. She is involved in launching a new literary project called The Purpose Womb (TPW)(TM). TPW is the branding of her life purpose message and the public platform for promoting, publishing, and marketing her BOU'QUE literary designs, collections, and special editions. Her Southern roots in Grambling, Louisiana stems into Jonesboro-Hodge and Shady Grove where she began her early childhood education. She is the youngest of three siblings and was raised by single, divorced Biology and Chemistry teacher. Being part of a nurturing, extended family has made her the woman she is today. She enjoys power-shopping, social-walking, and designing interior spaces. Ole fashioned home cooking, unfermented fruit-tea parties, Cajon style soul food family gatherings, and restaurant dining are favorites, too. As an Alumni of National University, she holds her Masters and Undergraduate degrees in Business Administration. She uses her formal education, certified training, and life skills coaching to advocate for children, youth, and families. Ethel Sims is an Executive Director of a grass-roots non-profit organization where she provides leadership and community service to help combat poverty, child abuse, and family dysfunctional behaviors. She teaches child-parent leadership and parenting classes for foster-kinship and community families. Her professional expertise consists of Real Estate, Business Entrepreneurship, Child Development, Youth-Urban Education, and Social Economic Development. She is a lifetime member of The Who's Who - Women in Business and is a licensed Real Estate Broke, by profession. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business Administration and is a certified Child and Family Care Ministry Executive.

Sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) - a poetic allegory of human anatomy. This book demonstrates that the analogies and metaphors of literary works share coherence and consistency with anatomy textbooks.

A store of wisdom and knowledge unveiling itself gradually for the past seven years comes to light! The inspirational power of the "Celestial Rays of Wisdom" stands shining like the pole-sun, its knowledge rich in all youthfulness, and its wisdom ready with wings to lift you above all illusions, doubts and self-lost. It is an inspired piece of powerful esoteric/metaphysical poems and numerous wise quotes dawning today for the benefit of all humanity.

"The Man Book" is an essential life-skills handbook--a manual for everything a modern man needs to know, such as Things Never to Say During Sex, Hottest Animated Women, Fly Fishing, and much more.

Hope and Help For Those Struggling With Infertility When the professional advice isn't enough, and you've had your fill of well-meaning comments from those who haven't experienced infertility, Marlo Schalesky wants you to know you are not alone. The true stories she tells of couples who share your hopes, fears, frustrations, and the comfort only God can bring will encourage your heart. Infertility strikes at the core of what it means to be a woman or man, tests marriages, and shakes faith. The honest, open, and emotionally resonant first-person stories in Empty Womb, Aching Heart will touch your life--as you "cry in the diaper aisle," wonder if you "are less of a woman," ask "How far should we go?" or whisper to God, "It's not fair."

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