Ah, well, to the point: I wasn’t putting my calling as a wife and mom first. We had a monthly magazine I edited and wrote for. I remember a time when I was really successful in my twenties! My husband and I owned a radio station and a marketing agency. So that’s why I say it’s “a calling to love.” Kind of a play on words there.Ī lot of people don’t view motherhood the way God does, do they? Yes, being a mom means loving those little ones, and-ya know what? I think God also wants us to love being moms. God’s perspective on parenting is a calling to love. With Mother’s Day next weekend, we’re going to talk about adjusting our perspective on what it means to be a mom. I'm so glad you’re taking some time out of your day to join me here. And we’ll hear more from her and others, today on Revive Our Hearts Weekend. There are tears in my eyes, and I kind of want to run away.ĭannah: Ah, the mommy wars! No matter which side of what fence we’re on-career path, school choice, health care-we compare ourselves, don’t we? That was Laura Booz getting honest. Laura Booz: I’ve got baby drool on my shoulder, and I’m just standing there watching these fabulous women sling their slim computer bags over their shoulders and head off to work. " The Double Stroller at a Tech Conference"ĭannah Gresh: Psst! Hey, Mom! Have you ever felt this way? " God's Beautiful Design for Women, Day 25" This program contains portions from the following episodes:
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Sing unburied singIn another excerpt in the story, a white prison official expresses his hesitation towards Pop's new role, saying, "it ain't natural for a colored man to master dogs. However, this "promotion" came with additional scrutiny and suspicion on the part of the wardens. While imprisoned at Parchman, Pop was "promoted" to train and manage the hounds used to hunt down escaped convicts. Throughout the story, Blackness is depicted as threatening and "savage." These choices in diction equate Blackness to something that must be tamed or controlled. Richie's quote provides additional commentary on Pop's role within the prison ecosystem. There had always been bad blood between dogs and Black people: they were bred adversaries-slaves running from the slobbering hounds, and then the convict man dodging them. While Jojo aims to impress Pop with his maturity, the scene that follows this shows that Jojo becomes overwhelmed when slaying a goat. Although Jojo thinks he understands death and other painful aspects of the human experience, he is still an innocent boy of just thirteen years old. In the story, characters suffer in the face of death and their loved ones are left to pick up the pieces. This excerpt immediately establishes the theme of death and its ubiquity throughout the novel. These are the opening sentences of Sing, Unburied, Sing. I like to think that it’s something I could look at straight. 5/24/2023 0 Comments William gibson the jackpot trilogyHis boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. “Eunice,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency-a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. She married van Lawick, and in 1967 gave birth to a son, Hugo Eric Louis, known as Grub. It was the first documentary produced by the National Geographic Society, and it made Jane Goodall a star. In 1962, Dutch wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick filmed Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees. There, she made several groundbreaking discoveries that secured her position as one of the greatest field scientists of the 20th century. In 1960, while visiting a friend in Kenya, she met celebrated anthropologist Louis Leakey, who obtained a grant for her to collect data on chimps in the wild to study their similarities to humans. Jane Goodall is best known for her 26-year study of the chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, located on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania. She blew smoke out of her nose and told me we weren’t the camping types. Once, inspired by Jane, I asked my mother if we might go camping. suburbs, and even though we had a swimming pool, I was aware that my life was sadly lacking in adventure. I’d seen her in National Geographic, which I would avidly page through before I could even read. Jane Goodall, “the girl who lived among the wild chimpanzees,” was blond and looked smart in her khaki shorts as she walked on thick jungle branches in her bare feet and play-wrestled with baby chimps. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee ’ s new book Song of the Cell! Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” ( The New Yorker)-a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Averno by Louise GlückHer other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection, The Wild Iris. In 2001, Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. She also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009) Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award The Seven Ages (2001) Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry Meadowlands (1996) The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University. Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. This was thanks in part to a sisterly new champion: Ana Marie Cox, the saucy strawberry-blond editor of Wonkette, the popular political blog. The Washingtonienne, as she had named herself, quickly parlayed the miniature scandal into a more lucrative and appealing gig: media vixen-cum-novelist. In short, this was not the Profumo affair. Her various paramours were neither particularly high-powered nor publicly accountable. Though certainly explicit (no more so than the Starr Report), Cutler's anonymous Web log, now a mere vapor on the Internet, was as skimpy as her designer wardrobe, and probably siphoned about as much time from her dreary job opening constituent mail as an occasional game of computer solitaire. Swiftly thereafter, she was fired, the official reason being "unacceptable use of Senate computers." In retrospect, this seems a trifle harsh. RIGHT after cherry-blossom season last year, Jessica Cutler, a comely brunet underling employed by the office of Senator Mike DeWine, began writing a public online diary of her local sexcapades. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Penelope by Anya WyldeI received a free copy from the author and am choosing to review. Overall, this is one i would recommend to readers who are not looking for a serious read. Even the servants all had a distinct voice! This is the second book I've heard from this narrator, and I think I am a fan now. The narrator does a superb job of bringing the characters to life. In a time where bloomers were not common? And no chemise under the corset? And I did sigh when Penelope was tight laced into the corset. There is a scene where Penelope is discovered by the duke in nothing but a corset and bloomers. There are a few details that keep me from loving it completely. Coming back to it this year to listen to, I hoped I wouldn't be let down. Can she learn to mend her ways before the duke sends her back to the country? I read this book many years ago, and remember being amused by the silliness. However, the young lady's unpolished country upbringing land her in disgrace with the Duke of Blackthorne. When Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London, she charms her way into the affections of the Dowager and Lady Anne. Bookshelves is not for downloading or buying books directly. Similarly, books are not available to purchase directly from. One important thing to note is that books are generally not available to download directly from Bookshelves, and nowhere on our website do we represent they are. In one way, Bookshelves is the version of Goodreads, except with Bookshelves you are able to get a much more personalized experience. You can also use it to discover new books to read and learn more about books. has many other features too.īookshelves is a free tool to track books you have read and want to read. Bookshelves is only one of many features at. Lallo.īookshelves is one feature of Bookshelves is found under the /shelves/ subfolder at. You are currently viewing the details page on Bookshelves for the book The Rise of the Red Shadow: (The Book Of Deacon Series 0) by Joseph R. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Felix salten booksYoung Salten became an ambitious and shrewd social climber. He grew up on the edge of poverty, from which he made his escape by pursuing high art in its many forms: “He went to the theater, attended exhibits at museums and sought out places where he might meet people of culture and wealth. The concentration of literary firepower in fin de siècle Vienna has few counterparts in human history: This transitional movement headlined by Arthur Schnitzler, Karl Kraus and the Young Vienna group that gathered at the Café Griensteidl eventually birthed modernist (and difficult) classics such as Robert Musil’s “The Man Without Qualities.” It’s wonderfully ironic that the cultural production of this milieu that eventually reached the widest audience is a talking-animal story.įelix Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Hungary, but his family soon moved to Vienna, where he changed his name (according to his very able translator Jack Zipes) in order to “unmark” himself as a Jew. THE ORIGINAL BAMBI The Story of a Life in the Forest By Felix Salten Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes Illustrated by Alenka Sottler |