A memoir about love, beer, busking and a dog.
"A fast-paced, engaging account of life both at home and abroad." -Kirkus Reviews
Anna Schott is also the author of "She's Gone Chilaquiles
Approaching 70 years old in the spring of 2023, Mark Fargo still seeks those two-lane roads, diners, small towns, and the unknown. With his reliable Yamaha Super Tenere motorcycle, he now is looking at over a 120, 000 over the last six years.
Mark has met hundreds of new people and has developed some new friends who have generously offered their homes to him if he ever passes through again. He has taken some of them up on their hospitality! Ma...
Unclenched: a passive fist's manifesto
The hominid hand. Its prehensile qualities (due largely to that remarkable opposable thumb) are legendary. It is perhaps the only anatomically advantageous structure this animal possesses. That oft-touted capacious cerebrum seems as often as not to allow itself to swell with a meaningless steam that marginalizes whatever intellectual potential it had in the first place. And with that pushed-in rostrum t...
DESPITE THE BUZZ is a cautionary tale concerning tech's toll, an artfully designed human interest story about learning, relationships, and wellbeing. A motivated new teacher raises awareness about screen use inside her Reflective Writing class, but she doesn't realize there's danger lurking. Contemporary communication dramatically impacts the learning environment, identity formation, and charged emotions of high school students in the story. W...
My Story, My Voice was written by Femma Mahdessian Slap, a Dutch Jewish Holocaust survivor who died in 2020. English was her second language. The short stories contained in this book came from her heart. She didn't want them published, initially. She didn't really want to discuss the Holocaust. However, as things may have it, through a memoir writing class that she enrolled in many years ago, her writings became a kind of catharsis. A healing ...
Boomslang is the name of an arboreal African snake (Dispholidus typus) of the family Colubridae, known
for its potent venom and rear-fanged jaw structure.
It was also the label affixed to a widely-ignored poetic form championed by various disenfranchised and largely unpublished writers of the late twentieth century. The boomslang tongue can be vaguely traced back to its rather obscure roots in mid-1980s Long Beach (California) and even more...
