A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive (a memoir based on one of the worst recorded cases of child abuse in California history, involving an abusive mother and an alcoholic father), the first in an inspirational trilogy, followed by The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search...
That first novel explored the ways in which an ‘ordinary’ suburban woman with three children learned how to survive and flourish when her husband walked out on her one ordinary morning, saying he no longer loved her. (I don’t believe that there is any such thing as an ‘ordinary’ lif...
This is the point where I draw on my second source of inspiration – other people’s achievements. They don’t have to be fellow writers either. Any news story of someone who has worked hard and achieved their dream is enough to get me focused. Inspirational and motivational quotes also he...
An NAACP Image Award in the foreground and American Music Award (glass pinnacle), both for “Waiting to Exhale,” and the “Cinderella” tiara is on the upper shelf Before Whitney’s red carpet experiences, her mother Emily “Cissy” Drinkard Houston, who led the New Hope Baptist Church Y...
Go here for a nicely formatted PDF version, easy to print and share. Here's Susan T on what to include in an ethical will: " There is no such thing as a standard ethical will. What they have in common is that each author has considered what they want their audience to know without...
me to think and to defend my opinions. These discussions sparked in me an intense curiosity about the world and taught me the importance of attaining the best education I could. It also helped that Dad believed praise was a more powerful motivator than criticism. When I brought home a good...
B Seeing an inspirational TV show. C Reading a controversial journal article. J: - So did you find your tutor helpful .in getting you started? H: - Yeah we certainly had some interesting discussions but it’s funny ... I saw a brilliant programme about climate change and it was that ...
34、sonality and character, not merely what he or she looks like read the following suggestions and select one that you find inspirational. adapt or narrow your topic to serve your purpose, and write a descriptive essay.1. a different kind of mother2. my father, my best friend3. how my...
Observing Jonathan Blasi teaching Spanish to an adult American language learner in Oaxaca But doing so as a poet, perhaps, also meant that I was open to the unconventional, that my fieldnotes and poetry notes intermingled, and that the ethnography study I might also write might never get writ...
Celebrity tell-alls or inspirational memoirs can become instant bestsellers. Successful books generate lots of publicity and attention. Most prominent people who have interesting or newsworthy stories have no time or inclination to sit down and write the book themselves. What the Project Involves: Ded...