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In Mike Pace's deeply thrilling paranormal-ish novel, One to Go Tom Booker finds himself with an impossible choice to make. While texting and driving, he loses control of his vehicle, hitting a minivan that was carrying his daughter, her friends, driven by his sister-in-law. Before the minivan flipped over the bridge though, time stood still. And Tom was given a choice. Either he could let his little girl die, along with her friends, OR he could kill someone every two weeks to make up for the loss of those souls. Thinking he was having some sort of crazy hallucination, Tom chooses his daughter. Not thinking much of it until two weeks later when his sister-in-law (the driver) is found brutally murdered. So if he doesn't kill someone, anyone, in two weeks, his daughter and her friends are in serious danger, and so on. Pace has quite the imagination, and I enjoyed every bit of it.


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The owner of this web site believes he lives in an absurd world. He is utterly amazed that he was dropped here to temporarily witness this ongoing life action play we call life. He figures that there was no reason for his being here, his existence, except that his mom and dad do what other animals do and procreate out of animal behavior, social norm, and any other reason you might think of. Now that he has been dropped into this enormous play, he is constantly astonished with everything he sees, hears, smells, and touches around him. This life he is leading is utterly astonishing. It is at the same time absurd because there is no meaning to all this except to survive, appreciate the play, help others all the wile waiting for it all to end for him, his death. The ultimate absurdity is that he is here, realizes he is here and knows it will all end to an extent that after death it all never took place.
The owner of this blog has learned a few life lessons while in the audience of this play. The first is that each individual actor has come into this world play at different levels of intelligence, wealth, power and resulting guiding philosophy. It pains him to see others that are less well off. This blog is aimed toward helping others become better actors. We each, in some varied way, can influence this play. Let’s all try to make this life better for everyone. He feels good when he helps other actors get through this life play with more comfort and enjoyment.
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Clutching his head with his hands he screamed against the sound. The constant banging, scraping, shuffling and thumping had been going on for days. Morning noon and night all Steve could hear was the sound of a hundred zombies trying to get into the room. Unable to sleep, with no room to walk more than a few feet Steve was beginning to go crazy.
“STOOOOOOOPP!” he screamed, hurling himself at the wall. From the other side the banging increased as a undead hands and bodies hammered harder against the wall. Sobbing he slid to the floor, pressing his hands againt his ears, trying to make the noise stop. As he sat there he saw the small knife lying on the ground. His eyes hardened as he reached out and snatched it up.
“You want noise? I want it stopped!” with that he stood up, strode to the door, unlocked it and threw himself into the press of bodies as they came flooding into the room.


When 11 year-old Sidney Keys III looked for a book to read at the library, he was discouraged that he didn’t find many titles featuring a young African-American kid like him. Instead of being disheartened, Sidney started his own book club – BooksNBros.
He hopes the reading/book club will encourage young boys to read, and celebrate black authors, and black characters in book. Sidney was recently featured on St. Louis on the Air, a local radio program in his hometown and said; “every time I go to the library at my school, there aren’t many African American literature books there.”
His mom, Winnie Caldwell, took him EyeSeeMe a small bookstore that highlights and promotes African-American children’s titles and created a video of Sidney reading which helped launch his book club, and is using EyeSeeMe as their ‘designated bookstore.”
Meeting once a month, the club discuss books featuring a black protagonist in a positive light. They’ve already read Hidden Figures, The Supadupa Kid and A Song for Harlem: Scraps of Time. While they do focus on African-American literature, they encourage young boys of all cultures to join.
For a monthly fee of $20, each “bro” gets a book, snacks at the meeting and worksheets for book discussion. Currently, the group averages around ten boys, but they are reaching out via Skype and hope to have more boys join, and they are hoping to have black mentors stop by in person or digitally.
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Medicinal Use of Synthetic Cannabinoids—a Mini Review
P. Muralidhar Reddy, Nancy Maurya & Bharath Kumar Velmurugan
Current Pharmacology Reports, 2019
Purpose of Review : This review gives an overview of the medicinal uses of synthetic cannabinoids and other related aspects on the basis of recent as well as earlier studies that the authors considered relevant to the context and scope of the review. Recent Findings Synthetic cannabinoids are laboratory synthesized products eliciting effects way more than their natural counterparts.
These compounds are more potent in generating intoxicating effects and are also difficult to be detected in conventional screening tests. Their clinical side effects are also more pronounced than natural cannabinoids, and their antidotes are also not known. However, they are also therapeutically found to be very effective in many health conditions, as these act by interacting with almost ubiquitously distributed cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2) in the human body and by other mechanisms also that do not involve these receptors.
Summary : All the issues related to their appropriate dosage, mode of action, acute and chronic effects in vivo, interaction with other drugs, their metabolism, etc. need much research to be done so that it will be easier to predict their different aspects in human subjects in more appropriate way. Further, development of strict legislation and regulation is required to be done so that their abuse can be curbed, and toxic effects can be reduced, but medicinal benefits and usage can be enhanced.
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The marsh, the river, the meadow, and the cornfield were all too big for me! I was not safe until the old mother mouse took me in.
How can I leave the mouse hole now, even if I must marry a blind old mole? He will keep me safe! Yet I will not see the sun again, nor sing of any happy thing that he has never seen.


Thursday 28 May 2009
The Shamer's Signet by Lene Kaaberbol
Pages - 282
Published by Hodder Childrens Books
Challenges - Once Upon a Time and 100+
This is the second book in the Shamer's Chronicles and yet again a sequel that is no where near as good as the first. I am beginning to wonder whether I should avoid sequels, after reading this and The Gorgon's Gaze this week and not really enjoying either. I had been really looking forward to reading this book and found it to be really disappointing.
This book finds Dina the Shamer's daughter practising to be a Shamer's apprentice. Just to remind you what a Shamer is, it is someone who can read other people's minds and make them feel guilty and shameful for the sins they have committed. Only a few people can actually look Dina and her mother in the eyes, without feeling bad and now Dina's own brother can no longer look at her.
The family are still on the run from Draken and the surrounding clans are being forced to fight each other, as Draken schemes and sets them off against each other. Draken has put out a reward for the Shamer and her daughter and is killing any Shamer that crosses his path. Dina is in danger and unwittingly falls into a trap whilst helping her brother recover from a vicious dual.
Dina is captured by Valdracu, a relation of Draken and put to work as a Shamer, using her powers for evil. Her brother feeling guilty for Dina's capture, sets out to rescue her. Dina is struggling to cope with how her powers are being used and finds that they desert her when she needs them the most.
This story did not draw me in as well as the first book did. The pages didn't thrill me into wanting to read it quickly, it just felt like a poor followup to the first book. I liked reading about Dina as she is a very strong character in the book, but the story alternates between her and her brother Davin, who I felt to be a poor character who came across as rather shallow.
I would definitely recommend the first book, The Shamer's Daughter and I am positive that it could be read as a stand alone, but I would definitely leave it there as the second book does not reach the same standards.
This is the second book that has failed for me this week and I have found it hard to get into any other book due to such disappointment in the previous two.
Do you ever find that it is difficult to get into another book after reading one that you have found to be a disappointing read?


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There are very young, oh absurdly young! reviewers; and there are elderly reviewers, with whiskers. There are also women reviewers. Absurdly young reviewers are inclined to be youthful in their reviews. Elderly reviewers usually have missed fire with their lives, or they wouldn’t still be reviewers. The best sort of a reviewer is the reviewer that is just getting slightly bald. He is not a flippertigibbet, and still an intelligent man–if he is a good reviewer.
Book reviews are in nearly all the papers. Proprietors of newspapers don’t read these things: they think they are deadly stuff. Many authors don’t: because they regard them as ill-natured and exceedingly stupid. Book clerks don’t read them much: for that would be like working overtime. Business men infrequently have time for such nonsense. University professors are inclined to pooh-pooh them as things beneath them. Still somebody must read them, as publishers pay for them with their advertising. No publishers’ advertising, no book reviews, is the policy of nearly every newspaper; and the reviews are generally in proportion to the amount of advertising. Now publishers are sagacious men who generally live in comfortable circumstances, and who occasionally get quite rich and mingle in important society. They set considerable store by reviews; they employ publicity men at good wages who continually supply reviewers with valuable information by post and telephone; they are fond of quoting in large type remarks from reviews which please them; and sometimes, at reviews they don’t like, they stir up a fuss and have literary editors removed from office.
Yes, reviews have much power. They are eagerly read by multitudes of people who write very indignantly to the paper to correct and rebuke the reviewer when, owing to fatigue, he refers to Miss Mitford as having written “Cranford,” or otherwise blunders. They are the wings of fame to new authors. They can increase the sale of a book by saying that it should not be in the hands of the young. They are tolerated by the owners of papers, who are very powerful men indeed, engaged in the vast modern industry of manufacturing news for the people, and in constant effort to obtain control of politics. Reviewers are paid space rates of, in some instances, as much as eight dollars a column, with the head lines deducted. When there is no other payment they always get the book they review free for their libraries, or to sell cheap to the second-hand man. Reviewers are spoken of as “the critics”–by simple-minded people; when their printed remarks are useful for that purpose, the remarks are called “leading critical opinions”–by advertisements; and reviewers are sometimes invited to lunch by astute authors, and are treated to pleasant dishes to cheer them, and given good cigars to smoke.
Occasionally somebody ups and discusses the nature of our literary journalism and what sort of a creature the reviewer is. Dr. Bliss Perry was at this not long ago in the Yale Review. Editor for a couple of decades of our foremost literary journal, and now a professor in one of our great universities, Dr. Perry certainly knows a good deal about various branches of the book business. His highly critical review of the reviewing business has somewhat the character of a history that a great general might write of a war. A man who had served in the trenches, however, would give a more intimate picture, though of course it would not be as good history.
I will give an intimate picture of the American reviewer at work to-day: the absurdly young, the slightly bald, and the elderly with whiskers; and of his hard and picturesque trade.
There was an old man who had devoted a great many years to a close study of engraved gems. He embodied the result of his elaborate researches in a learned volume. I never had a gem of any kind in my life; at the time of which I write I did not have a job. A friend of mine, who was a professional reviewer, and at whose house I was stopping, brought home one day this book on engraved gems, and told me he had got it for me to review. “But,” I said, “I don’t know anything about engraved gems, and” (you see I was very inexperienced) “I can write only about things that particularly interest me.” “You are a devil of a journalist,” was my friend’s reply; “you’d better get to work on this right away. You studied art, didn’t you? I told the editor you knew all about art. And he has to have the article by Thursday.”


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The Kolodyne Curse
During the month of December each year the areas to be used for jhums were selected. In the month of January/February, the villagers cut down the jungle, bamboos, and trees, and then left the jhum to dry under the blazing hot tropical sun. When it was thoroughly dry, they set it on fire in March. The fire killed all insects and destroyed their eggs, seeds of weeds and jungle plants. Ashes formed the valuable manure. The unburnt logs were used for fencing.
On the day a Mara selected his jhum, he cut a small patch to tell the spirit of the place, who through dreams informed him whether the patch was favorable for cultivation. The dream of clear water, fish, paddy cooked rice or a human corpse was considered a good dream.
On getting the favorable dream the villagers left the jhum half cut and returned to the village. There they performed the sacrifice called Rialongchhi. That day no work was done. Next day the villagers went back to their jhums again and finished the cutting.
After the jhum had been cut, each farmer with jhum on the same slope met at a pre-designated house, whose owner provided the pig. They celebrated by drinking beer, singing song and dance by the young men and women. The feast continued for two days.
After the rains they sowed paddy, millet, maize, cucumber, pumpkin and other vegetables and towards the end of April they sowed paddy. They sowed tobacco and indigo also in small patches in the jhum. The ritual sacrifices at the jhum were common. At the end of July the maize crop was ready for harvest. During the end of November and beginning of December the rice crop was harvested. In between the Maras supplemented their food with various vegetables including cultivated yam.
Pakhai with his wife and son was moving along the foot track leading to his jhum. They had moved for about two and half hours and were still far off from their destination. They kept trudging along the mountain track that wound in and out of the bamboo forest and up and down hills.
The villages in that part of the Mizo Hills district were interconnected by foot tracks. Those closer to the main road had kuchcha tracks. There were hardly any visible signs of development. In fact, the villagers rarely saw the face of any civil officials in their midst.
It was a forgotten land left at the mercy of God and weather. While God was merciful, the weather wasn’t. it brought unimaginable miseries to the hapless villagers during the long rainy season. A farmer’s life was extremely tough. He had to battle many a difficulty day to day.
“Oh God! We can now see our jhum hut,” Numi informed the men.
They all heaved a sigh of relief. After a while they reached their jhum. It had been a continuous walk for three hours from the village.
The jhum hut was built in the center of the cultivation. Close to it a perennial spring flowed.
They put down their loads on the ground and stretched their aching limbs. By now their backs had started paining. Hlycho lifted the plastic jerricane and headed towards the spring to fetch fresh water. Numi climbed the hut and cleaned the floor with a broom of twigs. Pakhai got busy in repairing the hut, damaged by last night’s storm.
The hut was built with the support of six strong and thick bamboos dug deep inside the ground. Clear ten feet from the ground the hut was erected, made entirely of bamboos, connected by a stair. It had a door and a window. In one corner it housed the kitchen and the rest was used for living and storing the farm produce. To drive away the wild animals, which were a persistent problem, he had placed a huge gong inside the hut.
The hut was systematically made well above the ground so as to withstand the storms and rains. It was a necessity for the farmers as their fields were far away from their homes and they had to stay there for days together to carry out tilling and sowing. In that jhum hut Pakhai and his family often spent the best parts of the rainy season, at times for months at a stretch.
Hlycho gave cool water to his parents and then sat down to clean the farm implements. His mother in the meantime made black tea and served them.
They got down and proceeded to till the land. Pakhai knew the work would require minimum four to five days and he had come prepared for it. He had decided to till the entire land and then only return home.
Bualpui often felt lonely, as Rimpui and Zoule roamed around the village and were of no help to her. They were seen only at the mealtimes. She was alone and couldn’t help but think about David. Though he had promised to meet her every fortnight, he hadn’t come to the village since last six months.
“Bualpui, are you in?” a woman in her late twenties knocked at the door.
“Oh! What a pleasant surprise? It’s Nanang Zomi. Please come in,” Bualpui couldn’t hide her excitement on seeing Zomi.
Zomi walked in and closed the door behind her. She instantaneously hugged Bualpui tightly.
“How are you Inaw? And don’t you dare call me Nanang; after all, I’m not that old. I would prefer you call me by name,” Zomi complained.
They sat on a wooden sofa and started talking. As they were meeting after a long time there was plenty of catching up to do.
Zomi had become the most talked of person in the village, a favorite pastime for everyone. Her torrid affair with an Army soldier in 1969 had become a shame for every man and woman in the village. They had warned her against futility of such a liaison but she had paid no heed. During those days when she was in love with the soldier she was on cloud nine and never bothered about her future.
He had given her dreams, real big dreams—of a happy married life in a big city with all the luxuries of life, which she could have never dreamed of. She was to get married to him in the church after a year and then he was to take her with him to Shillong.
But the fortune had laid out other plans for her. The plans, she had never envisaged, never dreamed in her remotest nightmares. Her love story had ended in a tragedy. She was left to live a lonely life in continual pain and anguish, and suffer the social ostracism.
No one knew her agony. And no one except Bualpui had bothered to find out.
“Let’s go to the river,” Bualpui pulled Zomi’s arms and lifted her.
They walked downhill to the riverbank. The water level in the river had risen up slightly. Kolodyne was flowing into Burma with calmness and serenity, the virtues usually associated with it.
The water was muddy. They decided against putting their feet into it. Instead, they sat on its wide and long sandy bank. The sand was cool and soft, and they felt the soothing sensation travel into their bodies through their soles. They felt the weariness melt away.
“What’s the news about your captain?” Zomi started the conversation.
“No news, I’m afraid. He hasn’t met me for the last six months,” Bualpui’s spoke with a tinge of sorrow.
“Don’t get unduly perturbed. He might be busy otherwise how long can he avoid such a beautiful and warm companion?” she teased her.
Her face lit up for a while before she became melancholic again. Zomi could sense the sadness in her eyes.
“He’s not an idle farmer. You should realize that he’s bound by the rules and regulations. I’m quite sure he would meet you at the first opportunity that comes his way,” Zomi tried to cheer her friend up.
Those words had some soothing effect on Bualpui who for a moment smiled. Her cheeks dimpled, the one on the left cheek was bigger than the one on the right and more pronounced too. The flush on her face carried the redness of an early morning’s sunrise. Her smile was so beautiful and infectious that Zomi couldn’t control herself. She smiled too.
Then both laughed looking at each other’s funny face.
“Thanks Zomi, you’re an inspiration to me,” Bualpui clutched her hands.
“As long as you don’t meet my fate,” Zomi said philosophically.
“It’s very difficult to live alone. On next Sunday please do pray for me so that David meets me soon,” Bualpui pleaded her.
“Sure, you don’t have to say it. My good wishes are always with you. Bualpui, you’re all I’ve in the village.”
“I know you love me so much. What would you do when I’m gone?”
“I’ll go with you,” she said teasingly, “Got afraid. Look at the frown on your face, it’s telling all. Don’t worry; you would go alone with your lover.”
Bualpui felt relaxed after talking to Zomi. It had been a long time away from their homes, they realized. Therefore, they had to rush back home to make dinner.
Bualpui entered the house and saw Rimpui and Zoule waiting for her. The two sisters started preparing dinner while Zoule went to feed the pigs and fowls. Once he returned they had their dinner together and went to bed.
In that remote part of the district there were no sources of entertainment except the radios owned by a few villagers. As the farmers had to leave early morning for their work, they ate their dinner around 6 p.m. in the evening and got up around 4 a.m. next morning. Lunch was taken well before 9 a.m. This routine suited their work culture. The long gap between the lunch and dinner was supplemented with snacks and tea.
Since most of the men and women had gone to their jhum khetis, the village wore a deserted look. Only those people required for the safety of the houses and livestock were left behind. The life would return to the village once all the farmers returned after some days.
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1923 was the summer I fell in love with Alexander Montrose. I suppose I could say it was the summer I met my soul mate, but I have little poetry in my soul. That which I do have, however, was spent upon Alex. Nearly sixty years have passed since that summer, and I am an old man and Alex is gone, but here at least is our story, set down for all time.
It must start, briefly, with me arriving in Paris on the first day of June, in that year 1923. Don’t let the overblown beauty of the cherry blossoms fool you; Paris is at her most gorgeous, most lush, and most inviting when in the full of summer.
Or so I had been told. At eighteen I was still a boy, naive and inexperienced, particularly when it came to women. The girls at home dazzled me and tied my tongue, but the boys at home, especially the farmer’s sons—still lithe and slender, tanned and muscled from their work—ah, they had quite a different effect on me. Young as I was, I still knew better when David (not, of course, his real name) and I met in the hayloft, sharing kisses and gropes, a kind of awkward, adolescent tenderness where neither of us quite knew what to do. It was very wicked of us, or so we had been taught, but that had been a summer of unparalleled pleasure.
Less fond are my memories of early that spring, when David's eye was caught by a buxom, brazen young lass, and he threatened to tell everyone of what we’d done together—of what I had done. It was no longer safe for me at home, and so I packed up what little I could call mine in the world, kissed my parents, and set off for Paris to become a tutor in Latin. For that was going to be my new vocation. I was always particularly good at the language, and I had hoped at one time to lend my skills to the Church, despite having no real calling, or even particular belief. It would be more lucrative, and more comfortable to my bruised conscience, to tutor young gentlemen in Paris on the mysteries of intricate grammar. I could teach during the day and pursue my own pleasures at night.
Such pleasures as they were; I and my broken heart had come to prefer my books and, at most, a corner in a quiet café. I did not speak much and had few friends, but that was all right in those first days.
And so that was my life, a modest one, but contented enough. I found a cold-water flat on the Left Bank, as so many others did. I had learned French already, but remained steadfastly British even in bohemian Paris. My work was unchallenging but paid enough, and I could not complain. My personal life was as I wished it to be in those days: quiet, private, dedicated to learning. On Sundays I would take long walks about the city. Paris was wholly open to me, and though I allowed myself only a small part of her, there was contentment enough in my life.
And then came Alex.
In Which I Disgrace Myself
FAR from showing Paris at her best, the weather was dank and drear, with rainstorms breaking up the low-lying thunderclouds. It was an utterly inauspicious, unromantic day, and I was in a similar mood.
We met on the stairway between the first and second floors. I had a tiny room on the second and highest floor. The slope of the roof meant that I couldn’t stand fully upright in half the flat, but it was beautiful and sunny, and I had a view only of the sky and other rooftops. I did not much like other people in those days, and being so far away from the street made me happy. Alex lived just below me.
He had just moved in, I was sure. I would have remembered meeting that golden man before, even in the foul mood I was that day. He was beautiful, but so was everyone in Paris in those days. We must have made a picture together, myself with my black hair all in careful waves, eyes such a dark brown you can’t tell pupil from iris unless you look closely, and skin gone far too pale from staying indoors all day. Alex bore shining red-gold hair and blue eyes. Sun and moon, we were.
“Bonjour!” he chirped, and I nodded back.
“Ehm. Are you… vous êtes le… l’homme d’Angleterre?” he asked hopefully, in broken French.
“An Englishman?” I found myself illogically irritated by his horrible language skills. “Yes.”
“Oh! Oh. I’m Alex. Alexander Montrose. I live just below you, I think.”
“Michael Clifton. Pleased to meet you.” Although, in truth, I wasn’t, and he probably knew it. I was tired, wet from the rain, and in no mood to converse with one of my countrymen.
“Er. Pleased to meet you as well.” Alex visibly wilted, although, bless him, he tried. “Are you free? For a pot of tea just now?”
“No. Good day.” And, in the most impolite way possible, I stomped off. It’s a miracle the man ever spoke to me again.
It had been a pretty dreadful day, but that was no excuse to be a scrub. It took a full night’s sleep to feel properly ashamed, though, and to leave the man a note under his door on my way to work.
Was awful to you yesterday. I quite understand if you want to write me off, but if you would like to join me in a cup of tea at four today, I should much appreciate it. Either way, please accept my apologies.
I came home early that day, the weather not improved one bit, but my mood slightly lightened at least. I heated water for tea and set out the little cakes I’d bought for us with the last of my week’s pay. I had very little money in those days but could still eat well, although real meals had become a bit scarce. One could eat very well on little money, but money was still needed. Even in Paris, dreams were not sufficient.
At exactly five minutes after four, when the tea had brewed to perfection, there was a tentative knock on my door.
“Alex.” I let him in, the both of us probably sporting the same shy smile. Alex certainly was. “Thank you. I was an absolute beast to you yesterday, and I’m so sorry.”
He grinned, and I went light-headed for a moment. I must have been terribly hungry.
“Don’t give it another thought, please. We all have bad days.” He held up a paper packet. “Ah. I bought us some croissants.”
“Then we’ll have a real feast,” I said, very pleased. I’d not had much of a lunch, and no breakfast that day. Best to fill up on anything for dinner, even if it was sweets. The Bastonnets were to pay me the next day, and then I would be able to afford a proper meal. “Please, come in. It’s not much….”
He laughed and sat at the tiny table against one wall. “It’s fine, Michael. Thank you for inviting me.”
I couldn’t think of an answer to that that didn’t involve lots of hemming and hawing and acting like a proper idiot, so I settled for serving us tea and setting our combined little sweets on a plate.
We tried to be gentlemanly, but everything was so good, and, for my part, I was so very hungry that we concentrated solely on not completely wolfing down our little meal for some time.
“How long have you been in France?” Alex finally asked, when we’d satisfied ourselves enough.
“Not very long—just two months or so, really. When did you escape?”
Alex startled, then laughed perhaps too quickly. “Oh. Ah, just a few days ago. I’m a writer,” he explained. “Mostly for newspapers and magazines. And since Paris is the fashionable place, to Paris I came.” And, indeed, so many were pouring into the city in those years. Alex was hardly alone, writing about the romantic city the whole world was in love with. I still, today, think that he wrote about her best of all of them, described her restaurants and streets and little stories as they were, not as others wanted them to be.
“So I hear.” I shrugged. I was never very sociable. “Forgive me, I’m going to be a dreadful source for you. I spend my days working and the rest of the time with my books.” And my paints, but what good was that to mention? I never sold anything and could not paint to the modern tastes.
Alex’s eyes lit up at the mention of books. “Ah, that I can understand….”
“Then you must go to Shakespeare and Company,” I said, forgetting to be shy in my excitement at finally being useful. “It isn’t far from here. And it’s magnificent. And,” I added, remembering the luminaries I’d caught glimpses of, “Sylvia, the owner, she knows everyone. She will surely be able to introduce you to people, give you what you need for writing.”
“Michael, thank you. I can write a story out of anything, but I need something to get me started.” He saluted me with his cup of tea and smiled, very sweetly. “What work do you do?”
“I tutor in Latin, the classics.” I shrugged. “A bit dull, but it’s a living.” I searched desperately for something polite to say. “What have you written for? Would I have read anything of yours?”
“Honestly, I doubt it.” he admitted. “I’ve not sold much, and what I have has been to American newspapers. Here, maybe….” Alex sighed, and looked out the window. “Here, everything is so different.”
He looked very young, then, the summer sunlight coming in and painting his hair with gold as he gazed out of my window onto the city laid out below us.
“It is,” I said, the “Thank God” not actually appended but, I hoped, understood. “I paint, too.” It was an almost guilty admission; I had no talent, and I knew it. What right did I have to pretend I was creative too? But that had been a part of what brought me to this city, and I knew even then that I could not hide things from Alex. Of course, he became an open book to me, so I suppose all was fair in the end.
“Do you?” His eyes lit up, and I think I lost my heart without knowing it. “May I see?”
“Oh! I mean, I’m no good.”
“So? May I see?”
Well, I had got myself into this, so it was up to me to get myself out, so to speak. There was a little stack of paintings against the far wall of my bedroom, the room itself so small that there was hardly space for the bed and wardrobe, let alone a little decoration. I selected one of the canvases (they were all about the same, pretty and uninspiring) and brought it out to Alex.
“Oh. Oh, Michael. Such a lovely little beach.” He examined the scene, one showing low tide, with fishing boats leaning in the sand like old men who have not quite drunk themselves unconscious. “It’s delightful.”
“Well, you’re certainly not an art critic.” I shrugged and took the canvas when he handed it back, but I was careful when I leaned it against the wall. “I paint for my own pleasure, and I am well aware of it. But thank you.”
Alex bowed his head a little and smiled. “You’re very welcome. And pleasure is as good a reason as any.”
He visited with me a little while longer, until the tea was long gone, and we bid each other happy goodbyes that first day. It seems a shame that I didn’t recognize friendship when I saw it. Not until my own stupidity forced me to, anyway.


Molly lives on a peaceful farm near a Mysterious Forest, which she loves to explore. When she finds a Mysterious Thing, she decides to take it home and, when it hatches and out comes a baby dinosaur, she decides to keep him as a pet, and name him Rex. But Rex grows quickly, and Molly soon realises that having a dinosaur on a farm can be a big problem.
Dogosaurus is a humorous offering, which youngsters will lvoe for its silliness. At the same time, the gentle underlying messages of conversation and ownership are valuable. Rex is a friendly looking, playful dinosaur with goggly eyes and a goofy smile so that even when he wreaks havoc, he is endearing to readers.
Great for young dinosaur fans, or anyone who needs a smile.
Dogosaurus, by Lucinda Gifford
Scholastic Australia, 2018


Iâ€™m not sure how much this cowboy poem has to do with Freedom, but I got a kick out of it when my good friend John Olsen sent it my way. I donâ€™t know who wrote poem, or how old it really is. But it doesnâ€™t take much of a stretch to imagine some old codger spinning this yarn as if it were 110% real.
Jake, the rancher, went one day to fix a distant fence.
The wind was cold and gusty and the clouds rolled gray and dense.
As he pounded the last staples in and gathered tools to go,
The temperature had fallen, wind and snow began to blow.
When he finally reached his pickup, he felt a heavy heart.
From the sound of that ignition, he knew it wouldn’t start.
So Jake did what most of us would do if we had just been there.
He humbly bowed his balding head and sent aloft a prayer
As he turned the key just one last time, he softly cursed his luck.
They found him three days later, frozen stiff in that old truck.
Now Jake had been around in life and done his share of roaming.
But when he saw Heaven, he was shocked– — it looked just like Wyoming!
Of all the saints in Heaven, his favorite was St. Peter.
(Now, this line ain’t needed but it helps with rhyme and meter)
So they set and talked a minute or two, or maybe it was three.
Nobody was keepin’ score — — in Heaven time is free.
"I’ve always heard," Jake said to Pete, "that God will answer prayer,
But one time I asked for help, well, he just plain wasn’t there."
Why does God answer prayers of some, and ignore the prayers of others?
That don’t seem exactly square — — I know all men are brothers."
"Or does he randomly reply, without good rhyme or reason?
Maybe, it’s the time of day, the weather or the season."
"Now I ain’t trying to act smart, it’s just the way I feel.
And I was wondering’, could you tell me — — what the heck’s the deal?!"
Peter listened very patiently and when Jake was done,
There were smiles of recognition, and he said, "So, you’re the one!!"
"That day your truck, it wouldn’t start, and you sent your prayer a flying,
You gave us all a real bad time, with hundreds of us trying"
"A thousand angels rushed, to check the status of your file,
But you know, Jake, we hadn’t heard from you in quite a long while."
"And though all prayers are answered and God ain’t got no quota,
He didn’t recognize your voice, and started a truck in North Dakota."
BETTER KEEP IN TOUCH!


She wore endurance as a cloak. Tried ever so sorely and wrongly, She committed all to the Vindicator. In her resolute quietness, she spoke volumes.
For her ardent disparagers, Her payback was tireless hours of intercession. As she stoically embraced undeserved tribulations, She gained character, wisdom, and tranquility.
Who dares put out the brilliance of a star? Her sublimity resonates evermore in the darkest patch of the night. Though seared with scars, her stellar virtues are glaring, illuminating hearts and inspiring minds.
She can’t feign ordinariness, Even if she hides behind her own shadow. Detached from a frenzied world, She derived her essence from heavenly fire.
Oh, had they known the fount from hence she drank, they would not have, in malignity, ensnared their own souls in a bid to put out her luminous radiance. They have murdered sleep through their ignoble gestures.
Behold the star as she abides in the firmament! Purified by the trials and tribulations, she stoically endures and thrives. The sky may be bespangled with twinkling stars, but her brilliance stands out in luminary distinction.


Every Little Kiss
A White Pine Novel, #3
By: Kim Amos
ISBN: 145555751X (ISBN13: 9781455557516)
Author’s Website: http://www.kimamoswrites.com
Review brought to you by OBS reviewer Andra
TURN ON THE CHARM
Eternal good girl Casey Tanner moved to White Pine for a fresh start. Her mission: to finally have fun. And a fling with a reckless bad boy is the very first item on the to-do list she pretended not to make. After one long, lingering look at a sexy firefighter, Casey has found her man.
…AND TURN UP THE HEAT
Getting women into his bed has never been a problem for Abe Cameron. Letting one into his heart is an entirely different matter. But just one kiss, just one touch, just one smile from beautiful Casey has this lifelong bachelor flirting with the idea of forever. And Casey’s refusal to settle down only makes Abe more determined than ever to win her heart. Now the one woman who can’t be caught is the only one Abe can’t live without.
Every Little Kiss is the third book in the A White Pine Novel series. We once again meet up with Casey Tanner (sister to Audrey – from book 2 in the series ‘And Then He Kissed Me’) but this time it is Casey’s story we embark upon. Casey has just returned to White Pine, with a new job as accountant for Robot Lit in an effort to rebuild her relationship with her younger sister Audrey. And within moments of starting the book…a fire alarm goes off at Robot Lit and who does Casey meet but the handsome and buff firefighter Abe. Now Casey is definitely what I would call a ‘Nervous Nellie’ in elevators. As Casey starts to slowly freak out, Abe comes to the rescue:
Strong fingers wrapped around her forearm. She looked down, but couldn’t see even an outline of a hand. “Easy there,” came the lieutenant’s deep voice. “It’s okay.” His unrelenting grip should have offended her. What right did he have to touch her? But instead, it grounded her reeling mind. Fragments of logic pierced through, I’m in an elevator. This man is a firefighter. Still, her breath was ragged. She couldn’t get enough air. The space pressed against her. She was aware she might be panting. “Casey, listen to me.” The lieutenant had stepped closer. She could feel him acutely. “I want you to close your eyes and count to ten.”
I love how Abe took control (okay…it is his job but still). At that moment, I wanted to meet Abe! My hero J. I thought the symbolism of Abe pushing himself VERY hard when he was running on the trail enticing and really wanted to continue reading to find out what was the issue and why he thought as he did:
His job should have made him grateful for every day he was alive and healthy. Oddly, it had done the opposite. It had numbed him, in a way, to his life. It could all get taken away so easily, so why get invested? It was part of why he kept himself cordoned off from any relationship that got too deep or too heavy.
The inner struggle Casey was in (trying to be more spontaneous and carefree as opposed to her nature of structured and planned in all that she does) was moving and yet…funny. Her ‘list’ was short, spelling out the specifics for her next encounter of the romantic kind. This list was vetted through her recipe exchange club and in Casey’s mind should be all complete. But when the time arises, it certainly seemed that important items were missing. Abe tried to stick to the list but kept bringing up points, which Casey had not considered. It was funny with a capital “F” let me tell you. I was laughing so hard I thought I would cry.
I definitely found the friendship and bond between the gals of the recipe exchange club very powerful and heart-warming. Every gal should have a group of buds who support each other and know just when to push you to go after what (or should I say whom) you are pining after.
The way that both Casey and Abe developed and grew during the story was engaging and gave the romantic in me warm fuzzy feelings.
If you like romance with a sense of humour, then you will surely enjoy this third book in the White Pine series. Thank you Kim Amos.


Supplementary Materialsthnov08p4509s1. with CMV- individuals (n=106). The effect of CMV illness on these T-cell subsets was confirmed by linear regression. Unexpectedly, ageing contributed only marginally to an Fustel kinase inhibitor increase in CD28null T-cell frequencies, and only in CMV+ individuals. Interestingly, the presence of HLA-DRB1*0301 led to an approximately 9-fold reduction of the risk of having CD28null CD4 T-cell expansions (OR=0.108, p=0.003). Over 75% of CMV-reactive CD4 T-cells were CD28null. Summary: CMV illness and HLA type are major risk factors for CD28null CD4 T-cell-associated cardiovascular pathology. Improved numbers of CD28null CD8 T-cells will also be associated with CMV illness, but to a lesser degree. Aging, however, makes only a negligible contribution to the development of these T-cell subsets, and only in the presence of CMV illness. Our results open up new avenues for risk assessment, prevention, and treatment. = 0.000). Those expressing CD27 made no contribution (Number ?Figure11D). ROC analysis based on CD28null CD4 T-cell frequencies for discriminating CMV- and CMV+ individuals exposed an AUC of 0.910 (is not an independent contributor to CD28null T-cell expansion in the CD8 compartment either. Of notice, the median frequencies of CD28null CD8 T-cells in CMV- participants were within the order of 25%, i.e., on the subject of Fustel kinase inhibitor two orders of magnitude higher than the median CD28null CD4 T-cell frequencies. These constitutionally high levels suggest that CD28null CD8 T-cells are involved in the acknowledgement of multiple antigens, which might explain their practical heterogeneity 22. In CMV+ individuals, their frequencies were ‘only’ about twice as high as those of CMV- individuals. The effect of CMV on CD28null T-cell build up in the CD8 T-cell compartment was, therefore, much smaller than in the CD4 T-cell compartment. Recently, the recognition of CMV as the most likely, main driver of premature heart disease in HIV+ individuals caused a significant paradigm shift 42, 43. Robustly screening the effect of CMV illness in this situation required a large number of CMV- individuals. This was also true for understanding the part of CMV illness in the build up of CD28null CD4 T-cells in our study. Adam30 Common overestimation of CMV prevalence in the ageing population in the US and Western Europe might clarify why the effect of CMV on CD28null CD4 T-cells was not more robustly investigated before 23. Concerning other factors influencing the frequencies of CD28null CD4 T-cells, the finding of a protecting effect of HLA-DRB1*0301P against development of these cells was fascinating, because a protecting effect of HLA-DRB1*0301P was previously explained with respect to severe disease in RA 39, 44. In RA, CD28null CD4 T-cells were shown to correlate with disease severity and the degree of extra-articular damage 12, 27. HLA-DRB1*0301P might present peptides inducing regulatory T-cells that consequently inhibit CD28null CD4 T-cell expansions. General inflammation levels, however, seemed to have only a small effect on CD28null CD4 T-cells. In CMV+ individuals with improved CRP levels ( 5 mg/L), CD28null CD4 T-cell frequencies were just slightly higher than in those with normal levels, whereas in CMV- individuals CRP experienced no noticeable effect. In agreement with previous studies 26, 27, our results demonstrate that many CD28null CD4 T-cells identify CMV antigens. Since we tested responses against select CMV proteins only, the sizes of the measured reactions (median 7%, maximum of 18%) will have grossly underestimated the true proportion of CMV-specific cells among CD28null CD4 T-cells. This is because CMV+ individuals with a large response to one CMV protein usually recognize multiple additional ones 35. Due to the fact that a majority of CMV-reactive CD4 T-cells are CD28null, each additional response Fustel kinase inhibitor will account for additional CD28null CD4 T-cells. No published statement conclusively demonstrates these cells identify antigens other than CMV. However, cross-reactivity Fustel kinase inhibitor between CMV-antigens and the stress-induced protein, heat-shock protein 60 45 is present in the antibody level. Cross-reactivity with stress-induced proteins, for example, should be explored for T-cells as well. In any event, the majority of.
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In this article:
- The author reflects on motherhood and the value of being a full-time mother.
- Psychological studies confirm the essential and vital importance of the mother-child relationship and the need for that love and care.
- What does real accomplishment means? Is that what society tells us?
The British author George Orwell once said, “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
As true as this may have been during Orwell’s lifetime—he died in 1950—it seems even more so in our contemporary discussions about the importance of motherhood.
Why is it that our societies—western societies in particular, and many eastern ones as well—have failed in the last several decades to recognise the obvious importance of the role of mothers?
Why do so many mothers struggle with the need to feel “accomplished” in other areas of life as they raise their young children—an act that, if done correctly, is undoubtedly one of the most significant accomplishments anyone could ever achieve?
Allah Almighty tells us in the Qur’an,
“Truly, it is not their eyes that are blind, but their hearts, which are in their breasts.”Qur’an (22:46)
How Do Mothers Feel?
I remember the countless times I sat up in bed after putting my first-born daughter to sleep and said to my husband as tears fell down my cheeks, “I just hate feeling like I’m not doing anything.”
Not doing anything? He would look at me, somewhat puzzled, and say, “But you do so much, masha’Allah.”
Yet I wasn’t referring to the number of stories I had read or spoonfuls of baby food I had offered.
I was referring to the void I had inside because, as a full-time mother, I felt unaccomplished in the areas of life that society had taught me truly mattered.
I had chosen to stay home with my daughter—a choice I made because I truly felt it was best for her and for me. In my mind, I knew I had made the right decision. However, in my heart, I kept having these overwhelming feelings of sadness, shame, and guilt.
I wasn’t earning a professional degree, I wasn’t earning a paycheck, and I wasn’t in any sort of leadership position in my community, so at the end of the day, what, exactly, could I feel proud of?
Initially, I thought this was my own neurotic problem.
However, I was surprised to find other mothers—those who stayed home and even those who went back to work or school—sharing the same feelings.
“Oh, I’m just a mom,” one young mother said, almost embarrassed, when someone asked her if she was working.
That’s when I knew something really was wrong—and it wasn’t just with me.
Therefore, I began to step back and ask myself:
“Where are all these feelings coming from? Why do so many mothers belittle their roles as mothers? How had society convinced me and so many others that our worth as women was only in our ability to work outside the sphere of raising our children?”
I searched my own troubled heart, listened to other moms, and began to read what I could on the topic.
Most importantly, though, I prayed to Allah for guidance, for I knew that only He could give my heart the comfort it needed.
Then, only slowly, was the proverbial wool lifted—from both my eyes and my heart.
What it seemed to boil down to was this: All human beings need the feeling of validation—the feeling that we are appreciated and are somehow contributing to those around us.
Allah has given us countless ways of filling this need—through contributions to family, community, and work, just to name a few.
However, in the last fifty years, somewhere along the way between industrialization and the women’s rights movement, the contributions made by a mother to her family took a back seat to those made in other areas of life.
The job of creating a home for a child and developing his or her capabilities became equated with “doing nothing” (Crittenden 2001).
I realized I had been trained by society to see the act of mothering, this noble act that has benefited humanity for centuries, as something trivial that I should be doing on the side, along the way, as an extra, and that my real importance was in how successful I was at other things—work, professional life, and community involvement.Pages: 1 2


The use of DHA by persons with epilepsy could decrease the frequency of their seizures. Studies have shown that children with epilepsy had a major improvement, i.e. decrease in the frequency of their seizures, but another study showed mixed results with 57 adults taking DHA supplementation. The 57 subjects demonstrated a decreased frequency of seizures for the first six weeks of the study, but for some, it was just a temporary improvement (R).
EPA, which is eicosapentaenoic acid, and DHA, which is docosahexaenoic acid, are two types of omega-3 fatty acids that are most commonly found in seafood. These polyunsaturated fats are known to have preventative health benefits and have been studied for their role in treating certain chronic conditions. In addition to dietary sources, certain supplements such as fish oil, are also rich in EPA and DHA.
16. Saito Y, Yokoyama M, Origasa H, Matsuzaki M, Matsuzawa Y, Ishikawa Y, Oikawa S, Sasaki J, Hishida H, Itakura H, et al. Effects of EPA on coronary artery disease in hypercholesterolemic patients with multiple risk factors: sub-analysis of primary prevention cases from the Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS). Atherosclerosis. 2008;200:135–40. [PubMed]
The results of several small studies had suggested that taking omega-3 supplements might help relieve symptoms of dry eye disease. However, a 2018 NIH-sponsored study that tested omega-3 supplements for a full year in a larger group (535 study participants) with moderate-to-severe dry eye disease found that the supplements were no more helpful than a placebo (an inactive substance).
If we want to deliver the benefits associated with EPA therapeutically, it is essential to optimise digestion and uptake. If we take EPA and DHA in their natural 1.5:1 ratio, it’s an uphill struggle for EPA because we know that DHA is more effectively absorbed and assimilated into cells. Delivering the benefits of EPA (for example, for cognitive function, mood and depression, inflammation regulation, heart health, skin health and so on), requires doses of EPA in excess of DHA, which determines the type of benefits obtained and the degree of the beneficial outcomes. The higher the ratio of EPA to DHA (meaning higher doses of EPA in relation to DHA), the more likely that EPA will be digested and absorbed, ready to meet the body’s high demands for this important nutrient.
Fish oil is effective in reducing inflammation in the blood and tissues. Regular consumption of fish oil supplements, tablets, pills, and capsules is helpful to those who suffer from chronic inflammatory diseases. Fish oil is effective in treating gastrointestinal disorders, Celiac disease, short bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) including Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis, which are both typical disorders of the intestine. Patients suffering from Crohn’s disease often find it difficult to absorb vitamins, fats, and essential supplements. Fish oil supplements are an effective diet for such patients.
Fish oil contains two very important omega-3 PUFAs. I’m talking about docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA). DHA and EPA are sometimes called the marine omega-3s because they mainly come from fish. Some of the best fish to eat to obtain fish oil from in your diet include wild-caught salmon, herring, white fish, sardines and anchovies.
In a 2009 letter on a pending revision to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the American Heart Association recommended 250–500 mg/day of EPA and DHA. The Guidelines were revised again for 2015-2020; included is a recommendation that adults consume at least eight ounces of a variety of types of fish per week, equating to at least 250 mg/day of EPA + DHA. The Food and Drug Administration recommends not exceeding 3 grams per day of EPA + DHA from all sources, with no more than 2 grams per day from dietary supplements.
Abnormal cholesterol or fat levels in the blood (dyslipidemia). There is conflicting evidence about the effects of fish oil on cholesterol and fat levels in the blood. Some research shows that taking fish oil can lower triglyceride levels, low density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol, and increase high density lipoprotein (HDL or "good") cholesterol in people with abnormal cholesterol levels. However, other research shows that taking fish oil daily does not have this effect.
So for those people who will not eat liver, cod liver oil on a daily basis can be a very good way of getting that. And you do benefit from the omega-3 fatty acids, and with the cod liver oil, it may even be unimportant to eat fish if you’re getting the cod liver oil, although it’s still better to focus on the fish, the egg yolks, and just add some of the cod liver oil.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an eye disease that can cause vision loss in older people. Two major National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored studies, called Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) and Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2), showed that dietary supplements containing specific combinations of vitamins, antioxidants, and zinc helped slow the progression of AMD in people who were at high risk of developing the advanced stage of this disease. AREDS2, which had more than 4,000 participants and was completed in 2013, also tested EPA and DHA. The results showed that adding these omega-3s to the supplement formulation didn’t provide any additional benefits. Other, smaller studies of omega-3 supplements also haven’t shown them to have a beneficial effect on the progression of AMD.
Fish oils might slow blood clotting. Taking fish oils along with medications that also slow clotting might increase the chances of bruising and bleeding.
Some medications that slow blood clotting include aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix), diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Anaprox, Naprosyn, others), dalteparin (Fragmin), enoxaparin (Lovenox), heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and others.
LCn3s are long chain fatty acids from fish, including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). ALA is plant-based omega 3-alpha‐linolenic acid. Fatty acids are essentially chains of carbon atoms with an OOH group at one end. The available binding sites on the carbon atoms are filled with hydrogen atoms. If every binding site is occupied with a hydrogen, that is a saturated fatty acid. If instead of hydrogen atoms there is a double bond between two adjacent carbon atoms, that is an unsaturated fatty acid. If there are multiple double bonds, that is polyunsaturated. Omega 3 fatty acids are unsaturated, with a double bond between the third and fourth carbon atoms from the end opposite the OOH group.
It is believed that regular consumption of fish oil aids in boosting your immune system, thereby enabling you to resist the occurrence of common diseases like colds, cough, and the flu. Omega-3 fatty acids present in fish oil bolster the immune system by affecting the activity and amount of cytokines and eicosanoids present in our body. Researchers have also studied the effect of a fish meal and fish oil on the immune system of pigs and found that fish oil aided in the growth of the animals. Similar research conducted on mice at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, also gave positive results.
My optometrist explained to me how important a good quality fish oil was to my eye health because I have dry eye due to inflammation. Little did I realize that it would be go for so many other things. Since I have been taking this product, not only have I had improvement with my dry eyes, but I have less joint pain from my osteoarthritis! I am so happy I found this and plan to continue it as part of my regular supplement routine! Thanks BioScience Nutrition!
Second, quality matters. It is important to purchase fish oil from a reputable manufacturer that follows Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and takes the necessary steps to purify the oil. In choosing a brand like Nature Made®, the #1 Pharmacist Recommended Omega-3/Fish Oil Brand*, you can rest assured knowing Nature Made has a strong commitment to making quality supplements so you can experience the benefits of fish oil.
Omega AD study, Irving et al. (54) Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized 1741 DHA (1.7 g/d) and EPA (0.6 g/d) for 6 mo, then for all subjects (supplementation group and placebo group) Supplementation was associated with positive weight gain and appetite in supplementation group at 6 mo, but not in the placebo group, and for both groups at 12 mo
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What a roller coaster this book was! The Aspen 2-Million Winner-Take-All by John Morris is about a guy named Morgan who is living in Aspen, CO. He recently sold the other side of his duplex to a pretty neighbor named Risa. Things seemed to be going alright, they never really talked to each other much, until Risa’s dog Tyson goes missing. Morgan finds out that while he was out of town, a pot fell off his balcony and landed on poor Tyson. He ends up finding the dead, frozen dog and he and Risa get in a fight where “what are you gonna do? Sue me?” comes out of Morgan’s mouth.
Well, Risa decides to take him up on this and sues him for ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS. for killing her dog. Something that happened when he wasn’t even in the state! Fortunately (or unfortunately) for Morgan, his best friend Justin is a lawyer. This should be easy, right? WRONG.
Morgan and Justin come up with 3 ways for Morgan to get out of this. Find one of Risa’s deep dark secrets and blackmail her into dropping the lawsuit. Get the $$ to pay her if he loses. This seems impossible until a 2 million dollar winner takes all golf tournament in Aspen shows up on Morgan’s radar. And finally… get Risa to fall in love with him and drop the lawsuit.
Meanwhile, Morgan’s ex-girlfriend Mandie seems to accomplish option #1 – but every time she tries to tell Morgan that she knows something, Morgan wants nothing to do with her. Morgan starts on options 1 and 2, but every time it seems like Risa is falling for him – something happens and she ends up flipping out on him. (I am pretty sure she was PMSing for the several months this book took place during. She seriously went nutso a bit too often on poor Morgan!)
A bunch of liars and cheats show up to play in this 64 man golf tournament. It is on the local course so Morgan thinks that he will do ok, but he’s up against a bunch of shady characters. The shadiest being Robbie the Creep – Risa’s cousin! The tournment is being done by Hap Daughtry, whos daughter Emmie is sick and in and out of hospitals. Hap has Morgan added to his bank account to help with the finances – but the money that should be there is not. Where is Hap hiding it? What else is Hap hiding? And why does Emmie keep saying she wants to go to see her momma – who has been dead for 5 years?
The book ends in a CRAZY cliffhanger and as much as I’d love to give it all away right now – I won’t – because you really need to read it for yourself to truly enjoy the ride that is The Aspen 2-Million Winner-Take-All.
As crazy as this book was, I loved reading it. I also loved how the author used parenthesis for notes in the story. I used to love to do this (well, I guess I still do), but got in trouble for doing it all the time in school. Now I know, if I want to write books it is totally ok to do it again because there is no teacher to yell at me about it… The author also notes what celebrity each of the characters looked like. Although I kind of ignored this and made up my own appearances for them. I don’t know why. But for those of you who want some guidance in figuring out who to picture when reading the book – it will be made pretty easy for you!
I definitely recommend this book – it would be a fun summer read since it is set in Colorado and snow and skiing are mentioned a lot – might make you feel a bit cooler in the summer heat!
I received a free e-copy of this book in order to participate in this Blog Tour! I was not otherwise compensated and all opinions are my own.
About the Book
Morgan thought he had it made. He owned a cozy if dilapidated house in Aspen’s otherwise fashionable West End, had lost of friends, a great business and threw the best parties in town.
Then his beautiful-but-aloof neighbor Risa sued him for a million bucks– for killing her dog. (Seriously. And he hadn’t even been there.) She was asking the judge to throw him out of town, too. (It’s a local tradition.)
For Morgan, the money didn’t matter. He didn’t have a nickel to his name. But he couldn’t imagine not living in Aspen.
His only hope: to win a 2-million dollar golf tournament (held on the sly at the local links) and pay Risa off.
Either that or discover her deep, dark secret and blackmail her.
Until his best friend/lawyer suggested Option #3: “Why don’t you just get her to fall in love with you?”
About the Author
John Morris lives in Aspen, Colorado, with his loving wife and two wonderful children. Having worked many of the same cowboy / construction / bartender / ski-patrol jobs as his fictional counterpart Morgan, he can couch for how easy it is for a good-looking guy to get in trouble there.
Release: May 10, 2012


What is the quirkiest thing you have ever done? I love doing kid’s ministry, so I have done some crazy things. Sometimes I teach with a puppet “Rusty.” Adults look at me like I’m nuts, but the kids love when Rusty comes and “talks” to me. He’s more popular than I am.
When did you first discover that you were a writer? I taught elementary school chapel for six years. Finding curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade is a challenge. I had to modify curriculum and write drama scripts to go along with the material. One spring I was feeling worn out and I prayed for God to “Hit me with some creativity.” God gave me ideas for my lessons, but I also felt a prompting to write a story. Four stories later, my first book was published, and it was a plot similar to a Bible story. I should have begun earlier writing what I taught each week.
Tell us the range of the kinds of books you enjoy reading. I became a Christian in the third grade, so I have a soft spot for children’s books that are spiritually based or are sweet stories. I’m always on the lookout for good resources for children. All my books have a romantic thread because I like a good love story, too. I enjoy reading Biblical Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Romance, and sweet Young Adult books.
How do you keep your sanity in our run, run, run world? Setting boundaries is key to staying sane. I make God and my family my top priorities. I have turned down book contracts when my family needed more of my attention. Some might say I was crazy, but God blessed me in unexpected ways.
Philippians 4:4-7 are my go-to verses to reduce stress and anxiety.
How do you choose your characters’ names? When writing about historical characters, I am stuck with their names. If my characters are fictional, I choose names that sound different and do not start with the same letter so as not to confuse a reader. Imagine my concern when I wrote about the daughters of Zelophehad: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. I worked really hard to keep the characters distinct because their names are similar.
What is the accomplishment that you are most proud of? Personally, it’s raising children that love the Lord. Professionally, it would be getting a second book published. With a debut novel, readers do not have any expectations. Expectations are high with a sophomore story.
If you were an animal, which one would you be, and why? I would be a butterfly who hangs out on pretty flowers and makes people wonder at God’s Creation.
What is your favorite food? Dark chocolate. If chocolate’s not a food, then I would say tacos.
Of course, chocolate is a food. I love dark chocolate, too. What is the problem with writing that was your greatest roadblock, and how did you overcome it? My greatest roadblock, to this day, is self-doubt. I pray that God will help me write to the best of my ability. I pray before I write for the Spirit to help me craft the best story possible. I also never stop learning about the craft of writing.
Here's the official book blurb:
When seventeen-year-old seamstress, Josephine Nimetz, agrees to take care of a WWI amputee in a remote Alaskan lodge to escape the influenza of 1918, there’s enough friction to melt the Mendenhall Glacier. Her position is only until June, and it pays well enough to overlook the hardship of managing a rustic home and a shell-shocked veteran, Geoff Chambers.
Geoff makes it clear that he isn’t too fond of the “runt” sent to take care of his needs, nor of her painful mistakes. Dealing with a depressed and addicted amputee, pushes Josephine to the brink of leaving, if not for the money her salary brings.
But Josephine is a perfectionist, determined to get Geoff back on his feet—figuratively. Though, sending a rich, handsome veteran back into society may cost Josephine the man she has grown to love.
This sounds interesting. Please give us the first page of the book.
Josephine Nimetz slipped into a perfect replica of a wool coat, one she had drawn, designed, and patterned on old newspaper. She tucked a rectangular box under her arm and tiptoed across the living room toward her mother who slept in an oversized chair. Laying a gentle hand on her mother’s swollen knuckles, she whispered, “I’m off to the Chambers Estate.”
Her mother’s eyes fluttered open. “I thought you delivered Mrs. Chambers’s gown yesterday?”
“Yes, but Ann forgot to put the gloves and embroidered handkerchief in the box. I don’t want any complaints from our best customer.”
“Your sister can’t seem to think about anything these days. Anything, that is, except men.”
Josephine stepped toward the door. At seventeen, the last thing she wanted to discuss was her sister’s courtships. There had been too many stories of lonely miners with gold rush dreams. Her mother coughed and leaned forward. Josephine halted. “Do you need your medicine?”
“At night dear. Only at night.”
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