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Like most children brought up Roman Catholic, Richard regularly attended confession. He never quite know why but until he was in high school, he never questioned the purpose, if not the substance of the sacrament. An incident involving a priestly vestment, a confession in a cathedral, overhearing an admission by an elderly lady in an adjacent confessional, the surprising registration for a universe theology course, and Richard leads to a renew...

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He was only fifteen years old and a recent graduate of grade nine when his parents began to request, if not demand that he start earning his own money, a replacement for the allowance he had been receiving from since he was in the fifth grade. From his first employment posting as a golf caddy for $1.50 a round to a series of clerical positions in the Canadian Government, the biography of Mike Butler's pursuit of mundane jobs is an occasionally...

In 1949, an architect and amateur magician named George Fenwick was to leap from an apartment building that he had designed and first occupied when it opened in 1936. Twenty six years later, John and Patricia Delaney rented the same apartment that George Fenwick had occupied. For reasons that neither of them were ever able to determine, the mystery of Mr. Fenwick's suicide appeared to have something to do with certain photographs found in thei...

In 1949, an architect and amateur magician named George Fenwick was to leap from an apartment building that he had designed and first occupied when it opened in 1936. Twenty six years later, John and Patricia Delaney rented the same apartment that George Fenwick had occupied. For reasons that neither of them were ever able to determine, the mystery of Mr. Fenwick's suicide appeared to have something to do with certain photographs found in thei...

Inspired by a fragment of a story written by one budding author, another aspiring author creates the life story of someone named George. From a childhood that originates in an adoption, the story proceeds through his childhood involvement in the sudden loss of his father, the destitution following that loss, a difficult adolescence and then to a curious adult life fated to conclude in a ramshackle shack originally described in the five paragra...

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As pastor and author Mike Robertson writes, the people around you are either making you better or they are pulling you backward. If you want to become all God has in mind for you, you will find yourself in life-giving relationships-and that will include some difficult people, like it or not. In his new book, Dealing With Difficult People, Robertson explores how we can learn from the ones who cause us the most trouble. With transparency and hum...

The author has played recreational baseball of one kind or another for almost sixty years. He has worn the uniforms of more than a dozen teams over that period-sometimes noticeably, sometimes competently, and a scant few times almost disgracefully. Included in this narrative is a history of his almost thirty years of playing for one of the founding teams of the National Capital Baseball League-one of the largest, if not the largest, recreation...

The author has played recreational baseball of one kind or another for almost sixty years. He has worn the uniforms of more than a dozen teams over that period-sometimes noticeably, sometimes competently, and a scant few times almost disgracefully. Included in this narrative is a history of his almost thirty years of playing for one of the founding teams of the National Capital Baseball League-one of the largest, if not the largest, recreation...

Since the original publication in 2005, a considerable amount of new material has been unearthed, both from official and private sources. This is all included in this revised and updated edition of the definitive history of these fascinating trains.

Picture Windows Two faces staring out of two windows in two separate houses in two separate cities separated by more than fifty years interests, fascinates, and eventually obsesses the same observer, first when he was a young boy, then when he was a recently retired man. Precipitated by the discovery of a long-buried skeleton behind a recently demolished older house, a retired man investigated these two obsessions, separated by time and place,...

Picture Windows Two faces staring out of two windows in two separate houses in two separate cities separated by more than fifty years interests, fascinates, and eventually obsesses the same observer, first when he was a young boy, then when he was a recently retired man. Precipitated by the discovery of a long-buried skeleton behind a recently demolished older house, a retired man investigated these two obsessions, separated by time and place,...

Ranching and cowboys are a colorful and important part of our American heritage -- a heritage known and respected all over the world. But as this way of life disappears into history, one cowboy is still telling the stories of handshake deals and hard, honest labor. Mike Robertson has been collecting memories and writing stories of his life with horses for over seven decades. With the help of his friends, he is proud to publish this second volu...

A letter written by a seriously ill middle aged man facing the end of his life is found in a safety deposit box after he passes away. The document, immediately thought to be Jack Quinn's last will and testament, sends his oldest friend on a quest to find his birth parents, his adoption only revealed to him shortly before he died. The search for the identity of the decedent's birth parents takes Mark Purchell, a man who has been Quinn's friend ...

Sie haben noch nichts von Holacracy gehört? Das wird sich ändern. Dieses Buch vom Begründer der Holakratie zeigt Ihnen, wie dieses revolutionäre neue System für die Führung von Unternehmen funktioniert und wie Sie es anwenden können. In der heutigen Geschäftswelt verändern sich die Bedingungen minütlich. Aber in den meisten Organisationen haben die Menschen, die am besten dafür qualifiziert sind, auf Veränderungen zu reagieren, nicht die Autor...

Memories of growing up on the West Island of Montreal during the 1950s and early 60''s are the subject of this aptly entitled collection of fourteen short stories. Sometimes hopelessly conventional and sometimes strangely surprising, each story is a remembrance by a now middle aged man who realizes that his future may now reside mainly in his past. Whether looking back on his first girlfriend, some of his school day adventures, or his relation...

The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide range of ridiculous activities that constitute everyday life. Whether it was faithful to that lofty purpose remains a mystery, even to the author that made that bold declaration. Four years later, a se...

The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. This was followed five years later with the release of a second volume. As noted in the prefaces to both these collections, their intended purpose was to present to readers a series of literary entertainments on a range of issues, activities, personalities and phenomena. In this, the third volume, these observations and commentaries continue, combined once agai...

What It's Like to Die-from Someone Who Did. Why are we afraid of dying? Where does death lead? Is there an afterlife? I Shook Hands with Death offers the answers as Pastor Mike Robertson shares his heartfelt account of dying at 19 in an east Texas lake, seeing his lifeless body, and then suddenly being brought back to life. Robertson's encounter with death-a near death encounter (NDE)-is a candid conversation with the reader about death, the s...