“Joy to the world,” the angels sing. Christmas time is here, Santa is coming to town, Christmas trees and candy canes, great wreathes of holly and ivy adorned with festive cards. – Fun Christmas trivia. I Love Christmas. The family gathering round the crackling fire, the spontaneity of singing carols of Christ’s birth, telling tales [...]
Create a WOW, children’s book Reading Experience. – Where has the WOW gone? Who stole it? Was it the Grinch? As I strolled through the children’s section of my local bookstore, I was disappointed to see shelves and shelves of mediocrity. What happened to the amazing images and captivating words of books gone by? Where [...]
SANTA & THE LITTLE TEDDY BEAR – Peter John Lucking Chapter 6 A SUPER DUPER ZERO G ROLLER COASTER RIDE A bitter bleak arctic wind howled. Biting cold nipped at The Little Teddy Bear’s nose. Numbing cold chilled his hands and feet. “I n the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan , earth stood hard [...]
“Santa and The Little Teddy Bear” by Peter Lucking Q: Why did you decide to write this book? A: The book was inspired by the birth of my son Michael 16 years ago and the wonderful book The Polar Express. In 2008 two wonderful things happened at our family reunion in England. The first we [...]
Peter Lucking, originally born in England, grew up in West Africa, Cameroons with his parents. He has travelled the world extensively. Inspired by the Lucking Family Christmas Reunion in 2008 Peter set out to tell the story of why we Celebrate Christmas through the use of Carols (lyrics included) and beautiful illustrations with Santa, a [...]
ALCOHOL: A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION By Jeff Herten, MD Unlike tobacco, which only kills or seriously wounds the person who uses it and, on occasion, a close ally, alcohol is like a dirty bomb leaving many in the surrounding area severely injured. The fallout encompasses: The son or daughter who is belittled and humiliated [...]
Q. Why did you decide to write this book? A. Four months after I got sober, I was riding across the country on horseback on the original Pony Express Trail. My wonderful horse, Famus, suffered colic and was going to die. Miraculously, only because I was sober and could make the effort to drive him [...]
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” Anne Frank Sift Through the Pain to Find Some Meaning ”The day that my miracle son, Paul, was diagnosed with a major, permanent, and irreversible disability, including severe mental retardation, my world came crashing down around me. He was 13 months [...]
The Thanksgiving Coat A bedraggled and frazzled, tattered old Coat hangs modestly in the hall, her gilded weave long lost its luster, still she’s the noblest of them all. She’s old, I’m told, a hundred years, lived through hopes, and dreams and tears, …made, they say, each thread and stitch, by loving hands, each seam, [...]
BEAUTIFUL BOOMERS DO NOT WEAR BIRKENSTOCKS! Even though cruel, I agree with most of the stuff Pamela Satran says in her book, How Not To Act Old. She has lists of what not to do and what not to wear, but when she stated that it is fine to wear Birkenstocks, I just blew my [...]
