I graduated from nursing school and became a full-fledged registered nurse. I had the dream of traveling to other parts of the world and see what lies beyond my home. We didn’t have money to travel after graduation to see some of the world and to decide what to do with my life. Such luxury did not exist in Germany. Everyone took a job to help support the family. The lucky ones continued with University studies. I may be a nurse now, but I wondered what else I could do with my training. I…

The 12 States of Grace are the expressions of those qualities within the Laws of Grace that help us recognize and amplify the presence of Grace in our daily lives. Here are the States of Grace in no particular order:



 



First State of Grace: it is our birthright to call upon Grace in relationship with the power of love to manifest for the highest good. We can live within the organization of Grace when we realize that we don’t have to earn the presence of Grace and it’s just…

Intercountry adoption is a process that recognizes an individual or couple as the legal and permanent parent(s) of a child who is a national of a different country. The requirements necessary to begin the process of international adoption can vary from country to country. Each country sets its own rules, timelines and requirements surrounding adoption, and there are also rules that vary within the United States for each state. Most countries require that a parent travel to bring the child…

Young children are extremely susceptible to the environment in which they live, so it is absolutely essential for them to learn the coping skills needed to successfully handle the challenges they will be facing on a daily basis. These children may face emotional and social problems like bullying, death in the family, prejudice, etc. There are many ways to develop these types of coping skills, however, there is one method that is tried and tested for centuries –…

While the Statue of Liberty in Liberty Island beckons the world’s “huddled masses yearning to be free,” many Americans have made it known that they want nothing to do with immigrants, especially Hispanic immigrants. In fact, for a country founded by immigrants, the US sure hates them.



The United States of America is suppose to be a melting pot of cultures, but Americans don’t like the growing ethnic diversity and they are kicking it up a notch by turning this resentment into…

I thoroughly enjoyed this story!

I reviewed this book as an audiobook and had never read or listened to Julie Elizabeth Powell’s books before.

I have to say firstly that the narrator, Melanie Fraser, has a wonderfully warm…

Author J. Frank James announced today that he will be running a Kindle Countdown Deal for his book Rainbow Games. The ebook will be discounted on Amazon from June 15 through June 22, 2015. Rainbow…

Author J. Frank James announced today that he will be running a Kindle Countdown Deal for his book Dead Money Run. The ebook will be discounted on …

Title: The Accidental Art Thief

Genre: General fiction/Literary

Author: Joan Schweighardt

Website: www.joanschweighardt.com

Publisher: Twilight Times…

Born into a military family, R.M. Cartmel was educated at Sherborne School in the South West of England and at Oxford.  Cartmel served as a practicing doctor for over three and a half decades. As a novelist Cartmel combines two of his lifelong loves—writing and traveling throughout France’s exquisite Burgundy region.

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The most beautiful word, aside from God and love, is poetry. Poetry is beauty and beauty is endless, therefore, poetry is endlessly beautiful. “Endlessly beautiful” is exactly how I’ll describe this piece of art by Peggy Warren called Very Much a Woman’s Book. Read the full review at http://peggywarren.com/an-endlessly-beautiful-book/

On a windy and foggy winter’s day, 17-year-old Dutchman Cornelius Ellen was standing on the Texel dike when the wind blew Eugene’s parachute over the Texel Island shore. When my brother splashed down, Cor reported that he was pulled further and further out into the Wadden Sea by a fierce wind that lifted his still connected parachute up like a half-moon out into the sea until he was “Gone With the Wind.”  What happened after that is still a big mystery.  There are several possibilities. -…

Edgar Allan Poe, master of the macabre, is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. Timeless prose and poems such as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven still give spine-chilling experiences and grim amusement to readers, even though more than a hundred sixty years have passed since he died.  As it turns out, Poe’s life and death were as captivating as his legendary stories and characters. His wife died at the age of 24, which, coincidentally, is the same age of death as both…

In 1807, the same year the United States passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, Britain officially outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, thus making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves. This ban was even more restrictive than the American ban, and the Royal Navy immediately established a presence off Africa, called West Africa Squadron, to enforce it. From 1808 to 1866, Britain’s West Africa Squadron patrolled the seas capturing approximately 1,600 slave ships while…

O Lord, I know and see that I’m powerless

to fight against circumstance’s mountain;

meet needs; anoint me with oils of gladness

as those, who mourn -before God in Zion-.

Rest Your mantle of praise upon me now;

allow me to recuperate my strength and sing

mightily of Your goodness, grace and mercy.

For You alone, dominate my heart’s strings

with the knowledge of the scarlet thread,

that binds my Life’s existence to You;

enlighten my…

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Beginning today…

The folks at LitFire Publishing and I will be bringing to you a series of articles about a part of the American Civil War that most people know little about, its youngest participants, the boys of the Civil War. Today’s article, “In Their Own Words”, introduces you to some of the real boys who were in the war and some aspects of the war as they wrote about it in…

The world has been taken over by evil monsters spawned in hell itself. So powerful is the evil that civilization has been stuck in the medieval times for the last 1,000 years

What would our look look like stuck in time?