Have you ever thought about taking a journey? Perhaps you are already on your own journey right now. Does the thought of starting out anew or continuing on your current path terrify you? You may have thoughts like, “What if I get lost?” “What will happen to me as I travel this unknown path?” Or perhaps you have spoken with others and shared your ideas with them, only to be laughed at or called crazy. Do you feel like no matter how hard you try to explain what you’re going through you’re only going to be further misunderstood and ridiculed? All the while, this mysterious longing continues to echo inside of you. Adventure is just begging for you to come and see what life can look like outside of the realm of your everyday norm. I invite you to travel with me as we walk side by side on my own adventure. This journey begins in a holler and leads us onto a path that winds beside the still waters. It continues into the valleys below and climbs up to the high peaks of the mountains. The road is dark at times, and the destination often appears to be impossible to reach. There is a journey like this for each one of us, just waiting to be explored. If you are willing to simply step out on this wild adventure, it will even change your life. I just dare you to believe! This is my story.

Terrance End Zone Jackson is born smart and hard working in Philadelphia. With the God fearing values and work ethic set forth by his parents, he ventures out into the world to make his way. He becomes an exceptional student, athlete, and teacher, but some trouble with the law and in his childhood neighborhood starts him on a path to nowhere. Before hitting rock bottom, though, Terrance finds purpose in his work as a New York State Parole Officer. In the line of duty, he meets Sherry Buchwalta fellow officer with a long track record of success. A wife and mother, Sherry reminds Terrance of his college sweetheart, Mary, due to her no-nonsense, fearless attitude and stalwart reputation. When they meet, Sherry is on an obsessive hunt for one evil man in particular, and Terrance is glad to help. When Sherry is murdered by the very man she hunts, Terrances motivations change. No longer is he seeking justice but revenge. But does Terrance have it in him to murder another human being or will he follow the line of the law?

Part One is one of betrayal and a path that leads into darkness. The path traces the authors life from sixteen to twenty-seven years old, and starts with the first two women he dated. He was Catholic then, and lonely. Part Two chronicles his time with Carolyn: how they met, how the Lord transferred all the love he had for the first woman he dated to Carolyn. Its about how she gave him four wonderful children, only to find out she had cancer when the last child was born. This is about how he lost everythingeven his belief in the Lord. But he kept a promise that his late wife asked of him: Keep the kids all together, under your roof, and take them to Sunday school and church. If you do those two things, the Lord will forgive all the rest. Part Three tells of how he meets his present wife of thirty-two years and how she married into a family that had four kidswhen she only had one. It visits how they started and built their business through the years. It also tells of the hurt and pain that came with the death of two sons, and how the man did not get angry with the Lord, despite how little help he received from his family.

Dr. Willie H. Clemons’ inspiring book, THIS IS MY STORY; THIS IS MY SONG: One Man’s Journey To Turning Oppositions Into Opportunities And Fulfilling His Unique Gifts, shares his personal experiences and insights on growing up in Alabama. Along the way, the author weaves a beautiful and inspiring story of his journey to fulfilling his childhood dreams of a life of service. Dr. Willie H. Clemons’ inspiring book, THIS IS MY STORY; THIS IS MY SONG: One Man’s Journey To Turning Oppositions Into Opportunities And Fulfilling His Unique Gifts, shares his personal experiences and insights on growing up in Alabama. Along the way, the author weaves a beautiful and inspiring story of his journey to fulfilling his childhood dreams of a life of service. Dedicated to being a change agent and bridge builder for his African American community, Dr. Clemons was unwavering on what he felt was his God given purpose. He shares the challenges he faced during the Jim Crow era in Alabama and how he turned those challenges into opportunities. As we journey with him from 1940’s Mobile, Alabama to Chicago and on to the bustling and progressive city of Atlanta, we not only get a sweeping overview of history, a vicarious travelogue experience and the grit and conviction of the man, we cannot helped but be inspired by the impact and legacy of a man who dedicated his life to service and his community. At the end of every chapter Dr. Clemons offers practical advice in his teachable moments section on how to turn your dreams into reality. THIS IS MY STORY; THIS IS MY SONG: One Man’s Journey To Turning Oppositions Into Opportunities And Fulfilling His Unique Gifts is a must-read for anyone who has ever felt they were born with a unique purpose that had to be fulfilled despite facing insurmountable odds. It is a story of love, hope, resilience, family and the power of the human spirit and the divine.

With the confession of several years of secrets, Daffy Gustavs life changed forever. As he leads others down an emotional path lined with heartfelt poems that detail the disbelief, pain, frustrations, and eventual healing that followed his divorce and estrangement from his children, Gustav shines a light on the unfortunate effects of heartache. Gustav, who one day came home from work and discovered an empty house, shares poetry that provide a realistic glimpse into what it is really like to experience the breakup of a marriage, to lose your children, to endure monumental financial challenges, to survive betrayal from other family members, to grapple with a variety of emotions that accompany such a life-shattering chain of events, and finally, to be guided to change. Through it all, Gustav provides inspiration to others that it is indeed possible to find hope, inner-peace, and love after suffering a personal tragedy. From Hell to Heaven, One Mans Journey shares introspective reflections from an honest man as he learns to survive lifes greatest heartaches and transform his anger into understanding love.

How is a former Satanist, turned occultist transformed into a fervent follower of Christ? David Fisher, a former drug addict, will have you on the edge of your seat as he candidly shares the amazing story of how he was unexpectedly led into the Catholic Faith by God's grace, mercy, and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mercy in the Details shows that God can reach even the hardest of hearts in the most unexpected places.

People were on the move---more than six million over a period of 50 or 60 years. Four children, the oldest just 12 years old, were on a train heading north. They had what looked like a shoe box with them that probably held their food, and several small, rather old and worn looking suitcases. They were quiet, looking out the window, and occasionally glancing at each other as if to say, "what are we doing here?" What was the reason for this journey? Where were they going? Where were their parents? How would this journey affect their lives---particularly the life of the older boy?

Goodbye Goliath is the story of one man's journey to sobriety. This is the second memoir by Clemon Hodge and is the continuation of his first book, Dogpatch A Place I Remember.

Thomas A. Squire was a regular guy doing a regular job when his far from regular wife gave him a call with some news. By the end of that five-minute conversation, he had decided to leave his regular job and follow his wife on a posting to Ho Chi Minh City and San Francisco – as a trailing spouse cum stay-at-home dad. Dad Abroad is a light-hearted sharing of a journey that is not usually travelled by men. This book covers the highs and lows, the foibles and contemplations of a regular guy as he navigates new countries, hangs with the kids, mingles with the mums, submits more completely to domestic chores, and tries his best to avoid isolation and talking about nappy changes … and his search for meaning and “flow” in the process.

Adam Walker is not your everyday record-breaking sportsman. He took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet – to swim non-stop across seven of the world’s deadliest oceans wearing only swim trunks, cap and goggles. It is not a test for the faint-hearted. In 2007, Adam, then a toaster salesman, was inspired by a film about a man attempting to change his life by swimming the English Channel to try to emulate the feat. After a year of rigorous training without a coach, Adam achieved his goal in 11 hours 35 minutes, despite a ruptured bicep tendon leading to medical advice to give up long-distance swimming. In 2011, after two operations and a change to his swimming style to take pressure off his injured shoulder, he became the first Briton to achieve a two-way crossing from Spain to Morocco and back. In the process, he broke the British record one way. Shortly afterwards, the Ocean’s Seven challenge was born, a gruelling equivalent to the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. At first it seemed that injury would prevent Adam from participating but, ignoring medical advice, he developed an innovative technique – the Ocean Walker stroke – that would enable him to continue with the ultimate aim of completing this seemingly impossible feat. Whether man would triumph over ocean, or fail in the attempt, forms the core of this extraordinary autobiography. Always intriguing, sometimes terrifying, and occasionally very funny, Adam’s story is about sport in its truest form: rather than competitions between teams and individuals, it is about man against nature – and against his own failings and demons. In that, it is truly inspirational.