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Solomon’s Porch Blitz

 

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Inspirational / Mystery

 

Date Published: 08-10-2021

Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.

Time.

Solomon is running out of it.

A broken and forgotten man fighting the demons of dementia, he longs for the past when both he and his beloved military town of Ginger Ridge once thrived.

When his stooped body collides with the hardened realities of the present, Solomon lies in a coma as an unidentifiable victim of a hit-and-run accident in a faraway city.

With nothing to keep him going but flashbacks of relationships from his past, Solomon has no idea what a difference he will make on the future …

About the Author

Janet Morris Grimes

Janet may not have realized she was a writer at the time, but her earliest childhood memories were spent creating fairy-tale stories of the father she never knew. That desire to connect with the mysterious man in a treasured photograph gave her a deep love for the endless possibilities of a healing and everlasting story.

A wife of one, mother of three, and Tootsie to four, she currently write from her quiet two-acre corner of the world near Louisville, KY.

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C’mon Let’s Play Virtual Book Tour

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Living, Playing and Moving Forward

 

Self-help, Inspirational

Date Published: December 8, 2020

Publisher: Balboa Press

 

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C’mon, Let’s Play!” shares methods for the readers to
play with that can help them change their lives. Here, Suberla reflects on
her life journey, and uses her own examples of good and bad choices to give
practical advice on how to achieve your goals. With humor, she shares her
approach to making some life changing choices including how she became a
hippie in the late 60s and early 70s, to her decision to retire early from
her corporate job. Dee also shares her process for how she moved through
breast cancer. By sharing her personals story, the author demonstrates the
importance of how one’s thoughts and beliefs determine the life that
he or she leads and how anyone can get more living in life by playing with
the concepts in this book.

 

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CHAPTER 1
Me and My Numb Spots
One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small;
and the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all.
—Grace Slick


I have numb spots in my brain. I’m always surprised when they take
an active role in my life, being numb spots and all. Sometimes when
something very dramatic happens, I don’t feel things—mentally,
physically, or emotionally. Of course, at other times you might find me
weeping while watching puppies or a brilliant sunset.
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of research, learning and observing,
and have integrated the best of it into this book to serve as an entry
point for those looking for a way to move forward. I love knowing that
my résumé, the work I do, my education, my financial circumstances,
and my previous experiences do not define me. Nor do the roles I play
in this world or any of those questionable choices I’ve made over the
years (although many of those choices, as it turns out, make darn good
stories!).
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My questionable choices serve as great examples of how a person
can transcend his or her circumstances and ignite his or her own power
to live a life filled with wonder, beauty, and passion. For me, it’s all
about learning and moving forward—just moving forward in love and
joy. When I discovered my purpose, I was so grateful that I could live
the life that I wanted to live but felt disconnected from the possibility
of it happening. And then I discovered my power, and quite honestly,
it turns out we do have superpowers!
Hello, I’m Dee Suberla. I help people figure out what they really
want in their lives, and then I help them get out of their own way so
it can happen!
I believe we are all aspects of the same thing, lovely facets of a
single jewel, separate waves on the ocean, clusters of particles in the
same universal soup. I believe that because inside the real me and the
real you—at our very cores—are those tiny specks that God blessed
us with; some call them souls or spirits. Everything in the universe is
connected—yes, including my numb spots.
This took me a while to learn or, more truthfully, to believe. Now
I know that I’m here to engage life through the passions that drive me.
Part of all this, in my case, is that I have numb spots due to the fact that I
need them; they help me in my work, and I believe I access them during
times when objectivity is required. Turns out they’re quite useful.
So how does one go about developing numb spots? I think there
must be a million ways. I believe that my original numb spots were
there when I was born. I can remember occasionally spacing out at a
very young age. The earliest memory of this was the time I forgot to
put my hand down after a vote was over. Some of the parents in our
neighborhood were creating a new club for girls my age. They asked
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for suggestions, and I suggested the name Us Guys. The lady in charge
suggested we change it to Us Gals. By a show of hands, we voted and
agreed. The name Us Gals won hands down—well, one hand was still
up. I was talking to my girlfriend well after the vote was over, with
that darn hand stuck up in the air like some sort of spaced-out flagpole.
“Put your hand down,” my friend Toni whispered. For a second
there, I looked up at it completely confused. What the heck? As I slid my
hand down to my lap, I wondered how someone could forget something
like that and became extremely concerned. I immediately imagined
that all those nightmares about forgetting to get dressed before school
could really come true.
The numb spots, which are actually ischemic scar tissue, are located
around the base of my brain and my amygdala. The doctor suggested
that as a cave woman, I would have had a short life because the scar tissue
would have messed with my “fight, flight, or freeze” responses—key
instincts that would have signaled the presence of a gigantic dinosaur
and triggered flight.
I started smoking cigarettes in eighth grade, about a pack a week.
As time went on, I discovered the joy of altered states. By sophomore
year in high school, I discovered the magical properties of marijuana,
white cross, and psilocybin. After graduation, I fell in love with
prescription barbiturates and diet pills, and for a while, I continued my
experimentation. I occasionally became one gigantic numb spot. I think
I may have seen a dinosaur or two and tried to carry on a conversation—
literally incapable of running at some points.
My guess is that the numb spots I was born with must have been
filled with lost memories of the sense my parents knocked into me. And
realistically, I probably created a few more with “experimentation.” I
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am grateful to be here to tell this story. Many of my classmates didn’t
make it. Ah, the seventies. I am truly a survivor!
I was the baby of the family. Mom and Dad had five children.
They had the first three, and when the youngest was around twelve,
my mother prepared to go to work as a Welcome Wagon lady. She
had lovely black-and-white photos taken that I found decades later.
She never got to experience the Welcome Wagon lady job because she
got pregnant. My sister Suzie was born, and my parents immediately
decided to have another baby so Suzie had a playmate. Yep, that’s right.
That was me; I was born to play. In retrospect, I might have pushed the
envelope a bit on that one.
My amazing parents never had a chance with me, partially because
they were the same age as my friends’ grandparents. There was a brief
period of time when they thought that I might be losing my mind and
considered sending me away, but instead we went to a craft store, and they
bought me a tiger-striped rug craft project. They even let me pick out
different colors—my favorites, red and black. But what was really going
on was that I had discovered a few things about becoming a hippie at
thirteen, and my parents never imagined that I was turning into an addict.
They thought that my ability to sit and stare at a wall for so long was an
indication of extreme boredom hovering on madness. I was just stoned.
I usually refused to take aspirin or any over-the-counter pill that
Mom offered when I wasn’t feeling well, primarily because it seemed
pointless; there was absolutely no recreational value. Mom was certain
that I just didn’t like to take pills of any kind, unlike so many of those
wild kids she heard about on the nightly news.
My parents let us taste the liquor they kept in the liquor cabinet and
told us if we ever wanted to drink that we should do it at home. It all
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tasted terrible to me, and as a result, Mom called me her little teetotaler.
I was quite confident they would never figure out that I was a drugcrazed teen with a fake ID going to bars in a neighboring state—where
I discovered the amazing elixir Lambrusco!
My sister and I were blessed with curly hair, but we thought it was
some sort of cruel and unusual punishment. So we did the sensible
thing and used Mom’s iron and ironing board to straighten out each
other’s unruly locks. Then one day Mom showed me a picture of a girl
in a magazine who had the same kind of hair as mine. But this girl had
just split her hair down the middle and let it go wild. The magazine
called it a hairstyle! It was wild, I loved it, and the text below the picture
suggested that all the hippies were doing it! Then my amazing mother
said these inspiring words to her very naughty thirteen-year-old baby
girl: “Don’t ever let me catch you doing this with your hair!”
I remember the first time I set my hair free and went out in public. I
carefully selected an outfit to wear to the carnival. I chose my torn red,
white, and blue–striped jeans, a navy-blue tank top, and my stars-andstripes gym shoes. I finished the outfit off with a beautiful white fringed
shawl that Mom had made for me. It was supposed to be dressy. It was
shimmery, but I claimed it for this outfit. It had fringe, for crying out loud,
and that made it perfect for this budding hippie! My friend and I wandered
around the carnival doing our best to look cool, and then she gave me
the most amazing compliment. “Dee, you really do look like a hippie.”
I’d made it! I may have worn that exact outfit for a month, and yes,
it was washed regularly. Mom did have some very firm boundaries.
So now I was a hippie, and I guess I took it to the extreme, but
come on—I had the hair! And yes, this is the part of the journey that
may have contributed to the expansion of my numb spots. 

 About the Author

Dee G Suberla

Dee G Suberla is best known for her expertise in project management. Of
course, she didn’t start out that way, no she started writing poetry
at an early age, then became a resource for people she worked with in the
pharmaceutical industry when there was a need to write something
particularly tricky. When she reflected on the favorite parts of her job it
came down to coaching; she loved helping people to set and achieve their
goals. Coaching wasn’t in her job description but it was a passion
that she pursued after she became a consultant and wrote her first book to
help new project managers called Poof You’re a Project Manager and
Other Delusions of Grandeur. Recently, she was compelled to write
C’mon Let’s play to share what she had learned with people who
felt stuck, helpless or were looking for something new. Whether Dee is
career coaching, life coaching or coaching somewhere in between, she shares
much of this information with her clients and wrote this book to reach a
wider audience.

 

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“Quotes” Humbled but, Yet Eloquent Blitz

 

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Motivational Quotes, Inspirational

Published: December 2020

Publisher: PageTurner Press and Media

“Quotes” Humbled but, Yet Eloquent contains several informative quotes, colorful photographs, special writing features, poems, scriptures list, songs and an autograph page. The book’s focus is to share Encouragement, positiveness and uplifting words to everyone worldwide.

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About The Author

Winifred Lee Richardson


Winifred Lee Richardson resides in the Southern California area with her son and dear family. She inherited the love of writing from her mother.

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Never Too Young to Change the World Tour

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Christian Faith and Spirituality, Inspirational

Date Published: December 1, 2020

 

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Inspiring true stories of young people who have significantly influenced their worlds. Each story shows how age is not a factor in one’s ability to make a profound contribution to our world. Read and be amazed and inspired by these young ambassadors of faith, hope and love.

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For more than thirty years, I have had the extraordinary privilege to spend most of my days working with young people in a variety of roles such as teacher, counselor, coach, campus minister and mentor. All of these experiences have convinced me that young people are the single greatest hope and gift we have in this world. 

Unfortunately, many times in this world young people are not always valued for the people they already are nor for the potential impact they will make with the gift of their lives. Too often, members of society and many leaders in our world and church consider young people to simply be over idealistic and lacking real life experiences. I frequently wish these same leaders or critics of young people could see the world through the eyes of the very young people they rarely highlight as an important voice in our world. 

In the chapters that follow, I will share many inspiring stories of amazing young people I have personally known who have significantly improved countless lives and who, at a young age, have already made a great difference in this world. Each one of these young people are witnesses to the fact that the best of humanity can be found in the hearts, lives and example of our greatest treasure, namely young people.”

 

 

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Br. Dan O’Riordan, a Marist Brother, shares his inspiring stories of young people who have made significant impacts on the lives of many in our world in this, his second book.

 

He has served as a teacher, coach, counselor and campus minister at numerous Marist High Schools around the USA. He also served his Province as their Vocation Director and Vice-Provincial.

He has coordinated more than one hundred mission service trips allowing many young people the opportunity to serve the least favored in many communities. He has also led numerous pilgrimages for young people and continues to be a featured speaker on youth retreats and youth gatherings, where he encourages young people to find ways to answer God’s call and use their gifts and talents in responding to the many needs of our world.

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This is your SHIFTING season Blitz

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This is your SHIFTING season

Christian, Spiritual Growth, Religious, Inspirational

Date Published: May 2, 2020

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Have you ever found yourself in a tough life situation and couldn’t find a
way to get out of it?

Have you ever wondered what your true capabilities are and how to reveal
your full potential?

Or maybe, you are seeking a tool that would boost up your motivation and
teach you valuable life lessons?

 

 

I think this book will definitely make a shift in your life, so keep
reading…

 

 

“THIS IS YOUR SHIFTING SEASON” – a book that is going to
change your perception about your true inner power,  teach you valuable
life lessons and show what is possible with dedication and the right
strategies.

 

 

We all had good and bad times in our life, we all made mistakes, and we all
have regrets.
And it doesn’t matter what those times, mistakes or regrets
are. If you are still living on this planet, you have the right to get
better and move forward, just like I did…

Being lost for about 22 years, I finally found my life path, discovered
strategies, and rules that led me out of the very bottom of my life.
Years
spent in and out jails, drug and alcohol addictions are now my past. I even
managed to get them out of my brain. After so many years of darkness, I
decided to dedicate my life to help others to find their own life
path.

 

Here is just a short brief of what you are going to learn:

 

How to find your purpose in life?

RULES OF MANUAL TRANSMISSION – learn how to accelerate your
life

Find your real destination. What is truly important?

The best way to start your SHIFTING SEASON

What is your real potential – a self-identification guide

Much much more…

 

 

And it doesn’t matter whether you believe in God or not, you are 20 years
old or 60 years old, male or female, the strategies and rule inside this
book will help you as much as it helped others.

Now it is your turn to make a decision, to take the first step, and turn on
your unlimited life engine.

 

About the Author

Michael Mickey Williams Jr. an Atlantic City New Jersey native was once
homeless, eating food out of trash cans, suicidal, addicted to heroin, and
crack cocaine. He spent 22 years of his life in-and-out of jails and
rehabilitation centers since he was a teenager. Nowadays, however, he’s
married, a substance abuse counselor, a minister, and a ten-time published
author with titles like “Pushed out the Crack House into God’s house,
My Purpose is Greater than my struggles, and I’m a Giant Killer to name a
few, he’s also one of the Co-founders of The Minor Adjustments Program which
is dedicated to preventing and reducing crimes, their primary purpose is to
teach men and women how to make the “Minor Adjustments” that are
necessary for their lives, Their motto is “Anywhere but backward”
Mr. Williams is a dedicated advocate for those who are struggling with
addictions or criminal lifestyles, mainly because he struggled with those
same barriers.

Beyond the Minor Adjustments Program, It is said that he was named
“Preacher Boy” by his beautiful wife Lernell Apple Williams, his
style of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ makes it easy for him to
communicate to both the common people and the religious, his stated that he
tries to use everyday language already familiar to his culture, with a
purpose to always try to touch individual personal needs at the same time
communicate spiritual truth.

As a father of seven, with four grandkids he credits his parents as the
source of his perseverance and sense of self-reliance. After 22 years of
being in bondage to addiction, Mr. Williams continues to be one of today’s
most inspirational, encouraging, and influential men today.

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