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Aging Requires a Gentle Attitude continues on with more humorous, lighthearted comments and opinions regarding aging, with more personal views, reminiscent of days and times seniors knew, and expressed with a tender regard for the past as is found in the first book, Aging with Gentle Attitude. This second book, Aging Requires a Gentle Attitude is another appealing book for seniors and others interested in more varied experiences of their parents and grandparents and other aging friends and relatives.
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Aging with Gentle Attitude is a quick read of various, short articles and observations on life yesterday and today intersperced with humor and activities to quiz one's memories.
Aging with Gentle Attitude includes humorous, light-hearted comments and opinions on aging and personal views on life's experiences throughout the years. Articles are interspersed with collected humor and nostalgic tid-bits reminiscence of days and times seniors knew, and can relate to, with a tender regard for the past. It stresses a viewpoint that includes acceptance of change and a hopeful attitude toward the future. Aging with Gentle Attitude is an appealing book for seniors and others interested i | |  | | Exciting, Fun Stories
Exciting, Fun Stories is a collection of adventure stories for children, teens, and adults. Each story is entertaining and meaningful to the reader.
Further, The Preface is for parents, teens and adults with information about the reasons for writing these stories. Included in the Preface is an autobiography of the author in poetry and an article related to the author's childhood memories of life while living in a "frontier type" environment in Texas.
PREFACE Why I Write Children's Literature About Me in Poetry Great Grandma's House Contents Exciting, Fun Stories and Poetry for Young Folks.
Ricky Rabbit’s Special Day.......33 br />
Bobby and Pete Pigeon ...........41 br />
Fun for Fran.............................44 br />
I Don’t Want to Go to Church....47 br />
Granny Will Understand ...........49 br />
The Animals and the Witches....54 br />
Exciting, Fun Stories for Middle Grade Boys and Girls The Contest.............................59 br />
The Hunt .................................62 br />
Princes | |  | | Inspirational Fun Stories and Articles
Inspirational Fun Stories and Articles is a collection of short stories for young people designed to help them with appropriate choices as they encounter challenges and decisions in their daily life activities.
In Inspirational Fun Stories and Articles, Evelyn Horan delights us with her wit and charm. Many of her stories contain lessons for her readers, such as "Always Be Prepared,” or they promote trust and faith in God, such as in "Tim's Worst Birthday.” The stories are filled with encouragement, hope, love, and enjoyment. I highly recommend the collection to all who love a good story. Jeanne Glidewell, Author-- Soul Survivor, and the Lexie Starr Cozy Series. Each of these short, exciting stories has a moral message and teaches us that God is there i | |  | | Inspirational Readings and Poetic Rhymes
Inspirational Readings and Poetic Rhymes is an anthology of short stories, essays, and poetry dealing with humanity, nature, and religion. Vast arrays of human emotions are explored in various writings, and poems, some written by the author as a teenager.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.”Sunflower Maiden Speaks,” and “I Thought of You Today” 2.When American Was Young – “Sunflower Maiden and Brave Warrior” 3. “Why” 4. “Will I Live to See?” 5. Frontier Days 6. “Enchantment” 7. “The Pioneers” 8. “The Oregon Trail” 9. “Long Time ‘Fore Christmas” 10. A Long Ago Christmas 11. Grandma’s Place 12. A Summer Afternoon 13. A Great Lady 14. “My Offering” 15. Where Is My Attitude of Gratitude? 16. Why is the Third Commandment Impo | |  | | Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Book Four
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Book Four is the last in the Jeannie book series. In the exciting adventures of the final book these are questions to be answered:
Will seventeen-year-old Jeannie begin a horse ranch with Slim as her foreman? Will Helga become a schoolteacher? Will Billy Joe and Helga marry? Will Jack or Slim win Jeannie's hand in marriage or will she NOT EVEN get married? What about Ma and Pa? What has happened to Henry and Linda Mae? What has happened to Prairie Flower and Gray Wolf, Melissa and Esther and the other children? How will the discovery of oil in the Ranger and Eastland, Texas, area affect the lives of Jeannie and her friends?
Chapter 1 “Building A Ranch House” West Texas May 1889 “Oh, my! Look how fast they are putting the roof on your house, Jeannie,” Helga said, giving her best friend a hug. While standing at the new water well, the girls looked to the roof above and watched the menfolks hammering on roof boards, and placing them around a stone chimney on the east wall of the clapboard ranch house. “Uh-huh, Jeannie said, shaking her head. “I just can’t believe my new house will be ready for me to move into by tomorrow.” Jeannie dipped a gourd dipper in the water | |  | | Jeannie, a Texas Frontier Girl, Book One
Life was not always easy for young folks growing up in West Texas in the1880's. But there were fun times, too.
Twelve-year-old Jeannie, her stallion horse, Diamond, her devoted hound dog, Ole Blue and her friend, Helga, recently arrived from Germany, experience breathtaking adventures while sharing true-life dangers and hardships on the West Texas frontier of the l880's. What happens--when Diamond is stolen? A rattlesnake threatens? Jeannie and Diamond face a mountain lion? Billy Joe is such a school pest? A tornado is fast approaching? Relying on their faith in God, Jeannie and Helga share tragedy and overcome many difficulties, while vowing to remain best friends forever. There is suspense and thr | |  | | Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Book Three
JEANNIE, A TEXAS FRONTIER GIRL, BOOK 3
Will the Indian children be accepted by their classmates at school? Will fifteen-year-old Jeannie FINALLY be ready for her horse ranch? Will Slim become her ranch foreman? Will Helga become a schoolteacher? Will she marry? What has happened to Billy Joe? What has happened to Henry? Will Jeannie ever marry?
These are a few of the unanswered questions as we continue to follow the adventures of Jeannie, Helga, and their friends, as the girls become young women on the West Texas frontier of the l880’s.
“An Accident” Suddenly Helga cried, “Look over there!” She pointed toward the pasture. “Gray Wolf and the dogs are running back this way. They are in a big hurry.” “Where is the rabbit?” Prairie Flower wondered. Jeannie watched the little group draw closer. “What’s wrong with Junior?” she murmured. “He’s lagging far behind Gray Wolf.” She rose and peered ahead. “Looks like he’s running on three legs. He’s holding a back leg up close to his side. Oh, my grannies! His leg looks all bloody.&rd | |  | | Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Book Two
Jeannie, Helga and their friends continue to grow up on the West Texas frontier in l886 experiencing new true-life adventures and daily activities that shape their lives and their characters.
In JEANNIE A TEXAS FRONTIER GIRL, BOOK TWO, summer is filled with puppies and a new colt to train. What is the name of Ole Blue's little daughter? Cooking and sewing and sharing adventures with school friends are part of the girls' activities. Will they help a family in need? There is an unexpected surprise for Helga at a Christmas party. What does Billy Joe have to do with it?
Will Slim be a ranch foreman for Jeannie's "someday" horse ranch? Why does he annoy her? Who has a serious illness? Who is saved from a terrible snowstorm? What happens when Jeannie meets a Comanche | |  | | Moving On
Moving On is a book for all adults, and especially those who have lost a beloved spouse.
Moving On offers hope that there can still be happiness for those who have lost a beloved spouse and are grieving, wondering what lies ahead for them, living alone without their loved one, and dreading the need to face lonely days ahead. Moving On offers encouragement and hope that there can be companionship and a good relationship with someone else, perhaps even a love relationship. The novel shows the difficulties a new couple faces, the adjustments to a new personality, often times in the later years of life, that require much understanding and patience from both persons. But with faith, | |  | | Rain on My Wings
Linda's home life is intolerable since her mother has re-married, so she decides to visit her beloved Aunt Ruby in West Texas. She finds that life is hard on a dirt-poor cotton farm in West Texas in 1950. There are no modern conveniences...and she doesn't count on the lecherous advances of Uncle J.R.
Linda loves the school and her new friends, but she just doesn't know how to handle the increasingly persistant J.R., and the unhappiness of Aunt Ruby.
Chapter l "Jackson City, comin' up Ma'am." Squinting his small eyes, the pudgy-faced bus driver peered back at me through his wide-view mirror. I was huddled in a seat with my long, black coat wrapped around my legs. Impatiently, the driver pulled at his sticky shirt collar and adjusted the dial of a small transistor radio swinging above the dash. The strains of country music and twanging guitars grew louder. These last three hundred miles from El Paso through heavy rain had been a long drive for both of us. Finally, the Greyhound's tires crunched gravel and rolled to a stop at an |
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