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Life of a Don, life's stages from a male perspective. We begin life dependent upon caretakers for nourishment, learning language, and instilling customs. We also inherit a perplexing array of genetically determined capabilities-and limits. The interactions between nurture and nature never stop changing throughout life's stages. We each make contributions to and demands upon human society. Then, towards the end, we face again becoming dependent...

John Ramsay has spent his lifetime seeking ways to inspire fellow Americans to see that our values make a difference in how we live. He calls his outlook on life Questionable Theology and puts it in the context of everyday experiences. The first two chapters set forth the position of Questionable Theology. The next seven chapters explore some of the changes in outlook needed before this outlook can be fully implemented. Then, Chapters 10, 11, ...

The stories we tell shape us, they express the limits of our hopes and disappointments, and they can even encourage and inspire us. These folk tales were collected mainly from people who lived in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky and North Carolina. Many of the tales have been handed down for generations. Some are newly conceived. Laughter, especially, tickles our minds and lets us take a look at our feelings-at inconsistencies, at impossi...

Every Danish homestead has an elf, called a nisse. Nisse both protect their homestead when well fed but cause mischief when hungry. A special nisse is made as a Christmas present for a couple living in Kentucky. When Spiff is sent to Berea, Kentucky, he fills his pockets with all sorts of interesting, useful things. Then he gets into some mischief. When the family move to St. Louis, Missouri, Spiff visits the Arch and creates chaos when the li...