About the Book I IRS (My Hell of Life) follows the life and experiences of a young black man as he survives the South but continues to face systemic and institutionalized racism throughout his life, in overt as well as subtle ways. The story moves back and forth in time, painting a vivid, often painful, picture of growing up in the South and later working at the IRS and serving in the military. But despite all the racist blows dealt against him, he never doubted that God exists and loves him. About the Author James M. Moten is a retired IRS agent who served in the US Air Force and Marines. He is the owner of Taxonyourside LLC. He works for two CPA firms and has a degree in finance. His special interest is outer space. Moten has eight children.

Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion. Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we "learn to live with one another", but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God.

Sometimes life hands you lemons. In this collection of jokes, autobiography, and personal philosophy, author and businessman Dr. J. T. Dock Houk makes an ocean of lemonade. Life’s a Joke compiles four books – “It’s All About Me,” “My Life with a Girl,” “Kids and Pets,” and “Life Around Us” – recounting 1,162 jokes, funny anecdotes, and descriptions of Sunday morning comics, clippings of which Dock has been collecting for an incredible amount of decades. As the author writes, “What I mean to convey by saying ‘life is a joke’ is that humor has helped me over some of the rough spots by showing me a side of life that either explains what I am feeling, or gives me a glimpse of something I also see. Humor, whose visual expression is often a joke, makes me smile or even laugh out loud. And sometimes, if you don’t laugh, you might cry.” So crack open Life’s a Joke and crack a smile. You might learn a little wisdom – but if not, at least you’ll get a laugh

It’s 2025 in the Divided States of America and the newly elected Marxist powers in D.C. move swiftly to impose their radical agenda—from the Green New Deal to draconian gun control, open borders and, with help from Big Tech and the Deep State, complete control over the flow of information. When all seems lost, Duke Shelby—a combat-wounded Navy SEAL and Missouri congressman—joins with his fellow Red state Patriots to fight back. A Flyover country rebellion gains momentum, forcing the military to examine their oath to support and defend the Constitution…and ultimately, to choose sides in America’s greatest internal conflict since the Civil War.

"Everything has changed but the way We think." Attributed to both Leslie Groves and Albert Einstein right after the Hiroshima explosion, We humans still think as We always have about pretty much everything. It may be the source of Our present anxieties. Respect and Responsibility, with their sibling Justice, have seemingly become lonesome doves, as near to extinction in some manner as so much wildlife and Our stable atmosphere. Government policy and more rigid and brittle individuals have come together to hamstring Our present and Our future. We yet have a lot to learn about Ourselves. This book hopes to begin a new discussion.

As a child I was called Tiger because I was always into things. As a teenager the death of my father died and we began to move around. I became angry; a SRebel. I had conflicts with religion. When my children were four and six I became a single parent. I learned a lot from them. I hope my stories will keep you laughing. Some that are sad, but that is life.

This Side Up: The Road to a Renovated Life is a home and garden editor’s story of a life constantly under construction, none by design. Written with candor, humor and grace, Amy Mangan shares her own home tour, but this one deftly sheds light on job loss, financial shame, home displacement, marital discord, illness and caregiving. Faced with one crisis after the next, Amy discovers how to cope, hope and rebuild, finding a new way home to a stronger way of life.

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.