It is my pleasure to share with you the culmination of a very long project. Faces in the Mirror is a group of 9th grade students at Webster Schroeder High School in upstate New York who spent about six months researching the Hero's Journey pattern as outlined by mythologist Joseph Campbell. Using references to mythology, literature, television, and film, the students began to see how the Hero's Journey permeates not only our culture, but all cultures across time and geographic location. From there, the students explored how the pattern is part of the human condition and how it can be used as a tool to examine their own lives. After completing The Sixty Day Sojourn and after reading a wide selection of cultural myths, each student modernized a myth or fairy tale of his/her choosing. By seeing these old stories through new lenses, the students' characters demonstrate that they are Altered Reflections of the originals.

FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.

"Where I'm from, I had a posse. My girls would do anything I wanted - fight, have sex, get high, vomit to stay skinny. I told my best friend her butt was too big. She quit eating and went down to eighty pounds. Then she burned herself alive." This is the story of one runaway girl's attempt to reclaim the soul she lost to image advertising. Her heroic journey spans the country and her culture, from the glitzy malls of Dallas to an isolated fishing village, the story of a girl trying to go home, a place she's never been. She found herself in Pacific City.

Edmund Talbot and Herzer Herrick are sent to the Southern Isles to enlist the aid of the mer-folk--people who had altered their bodies into the shape of mythical sea dwellers--in the battle against the fascist dictators of New Destiny.

The first book to comprehensively lay out all the rules of the game. Experts Lou Krieger and Sheree Bykofsky have the answer to every poker argument, standstill, or face-off imaginable and provide answers to hundreds of tough questions like: what is the minimum raise in a no-limit game? Can you bet and raise with a single chip? And can you cut a deal at the final table? Covers all the major games, including Texas Hold'em, Seven Card Stud, and Omaha and not only explains the official rules but also the rules of etiquette.

Frenchy Mandril considered Frank Bingham his best salesman and top producer. Many times throughout their many years together.Frenchy would always and still be held spellbound and amazed by Frank’s natural ability to close deals when certain customers were just in shopping prices and not really prepared to buy anything. On many occasions he would step out to the curb of his sales lot and yell across the busy boulevard to his competitors and yell…..” I wish I had a hundred and twenty Frankie’s working for me! I’d sell out every hour…..!”



Frank Bingham being in his early forties held contrary views and opinions of his boss. This was evidenced by most of their senseless conversations where his ending thoughts would be something similar in effect to----“Why did his parents choose to drop that perfected moron and afford him breathing space on this planet?”…..!” January Thornton, also single for years and about Frank’s age, lived next door. This however did very little to develop any facet of their relationship for more than twelve years. In plain talk, they had nothing in common except for a hedge line dividing the properties. This held true for like kind of people they individually worked for and others they held in short term friendships. In addition, there was this incommon wayward thinking that kept both of them mired in their individual and dysfunctional circumstances. Jan was and has been employed by a national hotel chain for a number of years, at one of it’s northern Ohio locations. Here he was it’s head chef and restaurant manager. His director was a W.Wenchman, for whom Jan had less then a finger tip of respect. This was brought about by most of their so called business conversations, which were of the off the wall variety and applicable to very little. Whenever W.W. summoned him to his office, it always was verbal launch time, directed toward Jan. ----After knocking lightly and slowly opening the door, he said. “I’m here boss, is it okay for me to come in?”-----“Now what the hell do you think Thornton? Like maybe I should come out there? Another thing! I was getting tired of holding my breath waiting for your appearance!” (“Dam! I should have waited another five minutes and then no more Wenchman.”) Thought Jan. Will a two week vacation to Florida bring about change to the never pals stale lifestyles and personal relationships? Some reading of their exploits may find them a bit humorous or even hilarious. But these two main characters seem to accept them as a matter of fact occurrences.