My mom had multiple sclerosis, and it screwed up my whole family. This not just her story; it is my family’s story about how we all coped with my mom’s progressive condition in our own different ways. One was ashamed and fled—he was my father. One only came to help once a week—she was my grandmother. Several only came to visit once a year—they were my mom’s two closest friends, my aunt, my uncle, and my cousins. Two had to stay for the long, hard road that lay before them—that was my brother and me. I’ve kept a journal all my life. It wasn’t to keep track of my heartaches and childish thoughts. It was to give me a place to vent everything I was going through. I used some of my journal entries to write this book. I wanted others to know that not only did my brother and I survive the difficulties of our turbulent childhood because of this horrific disease that our mom had but we actually came out of it stronger, more well-adjusted people because of it. By sharing my story, I am simply letting others know that they are not alone.

All songs were written with NWC Noteworthy Composer. For a small fee we can provide original NWC files for any of the musicals. By downloading the free viewer program from Noteworthy Composer.com https://noteworthycomposer.com/ nwc2/viewer.htm you can play songs as arranged via your computer or laptop. It can be used to learn songs or if connected to a music keyboard as background for performances. Licensing fees follow the industry pattern, but will be minimal until the brilliance of Joann’s work is established. Rights to perform songs are included in the fee. Performing a number of short plays as one event will be considered one performance. Squeeze in as many as you like. Send questions to Playformers@ gmail.com along with info for licensing:

From the Collection: JoAnn A Tribute Dedication to All Who Hope and Dream, Have Lived and Felt the Loss and Fully Appreciate, and, the Many Who May Want to Believe in Love By: Ray M. Helstrom From The Collection JoAnn: A Tribute Dedication to All Who Hope and Dream, Have Lived and Felt the Loss and Fully Appreciate, and, the Many Who May Want to Believe in Love is a composition created from anecdotes written from remembered moments with JoAnn. In looking back, the author finds that they seem to express a very real sense of happiness that could be described as a fulfillment of whimsical dreams and long held desires and hopes.

The celebration of the Liturgy of the Word with children is a liturgical experience that opens young people to hear and respond to God’s Word in ways that enable them to be nurtured and challenged by its power, and to experience the grace of ongoing conversion to the vision and values of the Word of God. Children's Liturgy of the Word 2024–2025 enables prayer leaders to confidently lead children through the Liturgy of the Word. Each liturgy guide offers: An overview of the season. Weekly guides for leading and preparing the liturgy. Suggestions for the liturgical environment. Weekly Scripture citations and commentary on all three readings and the responsorial psalm. Weekly Scriptural connections to Church teaching and tradition. Weekly reflections for the children's Liturgy of the Word. The liturgy guides will enable prayer leaders to facilitate the Liturgy of the Word with children in a prayerful way, allowing each child to deepen and explore his or her relationship with God.

An eleven-year-old Navajo boy is taken by force from his Arizona reservation home and bussed to Fort Sill Indian School near Lawton and Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1949. The U.S. law requires the Navajo children to attend school in a federally operated boarding school. The boy is treated roughly at his capture and on the bus trip. He vows to escape from the school and walk/run back the eight hundred miles back to his home, realizing he has no money and does not trust the white man. He is forced to rely on his survival skills. He makes several friends at the school. However, in the spring, he leaves at night and starts his journey home. The challenges he faces at the school and also his journey and how he overcomes those challenges are detailed. When he finally reaches his home area, he hears crying from several people and creeps through the sagebrush to see what is happening. The same government agents who seized him are trying to wrestle an eight-year-old girl from her mother and grandmother and put her on the bus. But while that happens, the boy slips unnoticed on to the bus and invites all the children to follow him, and he will hide and protect them until the agents have gone and stopped looking for them. Twenty-one of the children come with him, and he hikes for two days, covering his trails, until he reaches an old unknown cliff dwelling that he and his family had stayed at many times. It is well hidden. For close to a year, the children survive in the cliff dwelling, learning Indian skills from the boy and school skills from a twelve-year-old girl. Meanwhile, a large political battle takes place for many months, and finally, the law is changed so the Navajo children can stay on the reservation to learn the white mans ways and education. When all the papers have been signed by the Congress and the president, the childrens group is able to return home. A large dinner is planned by the tribal council for their return. At this dinner, the boy, Jeff White Cloud, has his name formally changed by the tribal leaders to Nasha Bi Hoga, He Who Walks Alone.

For One Brief Moment is the story of one woman's struggle against cancer, a battle that many others fought both before and after her. Some have won, some have lost and with some the battle still rages. But none have gone forth to meet this evil and merciless foe with greater courage or with more loving support from family and friends than Joann, whose story is told here. This is not a happy story. It is told with sadness and pain and sorrow and with a sense of guilt on the part of some who survive. But it is also a story of bravery and strength and determination and endurance and of the love that helped to light her lonely way.

This book is designed to help couples to value and appreciate what he or she has. For years women were taught to downplay their sexuality and femininity. This false image of being a good girl or to being a devoted Christian caused numerous women to downplay their intimate desires towards their spouse. However, some teachings provided were not accurate information. My goal is to empower women to know it is okay to embrace their sexuality and creative skills to obtain knowledge. God s Woman could be the PTA president, a sexy and classy woman and a committed dedicated wife that knows who she is. A male could show their emotions and still be masculine. We believe a marriage could be compared to a diligent farmer and gardener who care for a beautiful harvest that reaps a bountiful harvest in contrast to a gardener and farmer who is neglectful that does very little work yet expects a bountiful harvest, watch it deteriorate. Just as a rose garden in its beauty has to be watered, nurtured, cultivated and pruned in order to reap the results of a beautiful garden so it is with one s marriage. This book also contains a list of questions that should be asked during the dating stage when the couple believes their relationship is growing to a higher level of commitment. The practical common sense tips in this book are nothing new. They are plain common sense steps, which needs to be implemented by each mate. Your marriage will be no more or no less than what each individual is willing to make it. Viewing one another as being on, the same winning team is paramount. We recognize our differences, but instead of seeing them as negatives, we hold dear to them as being positive factors that contributes creativity to our marriage. We build upon one another strong points. We do not claim to have a perfect marriage whereby we can say that we never had an argument or said words that we had to ask forgiveness for, however, we continue to grow and learn from challenges and turned them into triumphs. Peace, Unity and Love.

Minority scholars offer a critical and often radical rethinking of fundamental questions concerning identity, politics, and difference/s as these inform educational theory and practice.