Childhood Musings is a compilation of all of the stories, poems, and screenplays that I have written in my lifetime. It is a project that made me realize that I have stayed pretty creative throughout my life.

The Aptitude Myth addresses the decline in American children’s mastery of critical school subjects. It contends that a contributing cause for this decline derives from many Americans’ ways of thinking about children’s learning: They believe that school performance is determined very largely by innate aptitude.

Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.

A wealth of creative experiences for building a well-rounded childhood. This hands-on, imaginative book offers 101 experiences every child should have as they grow toward adulthood. Each entree provides practical suggestions that help you make each of these experiences a reality. The examples include: --Every child should believe in things that can't be seen-which offers details on how a child can create a special drawstring bag for the nap fairy or elf who can leave behind small rewards. --Every child should catch snowflakes on his tongue and eyelashes-which explains how a child can also capture a snowflake using cardboard. --Every child should publish a book-which describes how your youngster can go about becoming his or her own publisher. --Every child should camp out in the backyard-which also shows how your youngster can do precisely that in his or her own living room if no yard exists. --Every child should have a dream for the future and an adult who believes in that dream.

Three questions are etched into everyone's subconscious: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? Josh McDowell and Thomas Williams team up to show why nothing short of God answers these questions. But the problem is that in today's secularized culture, God has largely been banished. How to Know God Exists explores in depth solid reasons for believing in God and restoring him to his rightful place in our lives. Josh McDowell is widely known for his powerful defenses of God based on historical and biblical evidences. In this book he and Thomas take a new direction and present often-unexplored but formidable evidences based on sheer reason, observable reality, and solid science. They show that belief in God is not the blind, unthinking, and intellectually indefensible fancy today's secularism makes it out to be. How to Know God Exists will: Offer rational defenses for the existence of God, truth, morality, meaning, and reason Open vistas of beauty and joy denied to readers by the sterility of secularism Use reason, logic, experience, and common sense to show that God offers the truth required to make sense of reality and bring meaning and joy to life By reason and common sense, How to Know God Exists shows that meaning itself is rooted in the existence of God.

This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.

Gifted medium and mindfulness expert Alaine Portner’s mission is to deliver insightful messages from spirit to loved ones. In over 12,000 direct medium messages, Alaine has connected her clients to heartfelt guidance from the departed, aiding their growth here on earth. Within the exquisite details of these readings, there are lessons about life and the after-life. Our loved ones’ message is that they are at peace and that we need to be, too. In her mission to facilitate significant healing, renewal, and transformation for seekers on both sides of the veil, Alaine has uncovered some of the most vital truths about life, death, and what is truly eternal. Medium Memoirs collects real-life stories of love, compassion, hope, reunion, and forgiveness. Narrated by Alaine, these accounts of actual channeling sessions will warm your heart and expand your beliefs about personal transformation. You’ll also learn how you can make room to invite guidance into your own life and feel more confident in interpreting the “spiritual dialogue” you encounter every day.