Losing My Cool

Download or read book Speech Is My Hammer written by Max A. Hunter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Speech Is My Hammer, Max Hunter draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a "spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances," Hunter focuses on dispelling "literacy myths" and discussing how Black male artists, entertainers, professors, and writers have described their own "literacy narratives" in self-conscious, ambivalent terms. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's My Bondage My Freedom, W. E. B. Dubois's Soul of Black Folks, and Langston Hughes's Harlem Renaissance-memoir The Big Sea, Hunter conducts a literary inquiry that unearths their double-consciousness and literacy ambivalence. He moves on to reveal that for many contemporary Black men the arc of ambivalence rises even higher and becomes more complex, following the civil rights and the Black Power movements, and then sweeping sharply upward once again during the War on Drugs. Hunter provides rich illustrations and probing theses that complicate our commonsense reflections on their concealed angst regarding Black authenticity, respectability politics, and masculinity. Speech Is My Hammer moves the reader beyond considering literacy in normative terms to perceive its potential to facilitate transformative conversations among Black males.

Download or read book “Be Good!” written by Tara R. Wells and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All kids are amazing! But not all kids know how to be good. If, like most parents, your goal is to raise kids who are responsible, kind, intelligent, and yes, even fun, then this concise-yet-thorough guide is for you! Tapping into her psychology background, along with twenty-five years of experience working with kids in all stages of development (including her own four), Tara offers tips to help you: Define what it means to be good in your home and learn to lovingly take charge, encouraging your kids to respect you and your authority. Find ways to discourage and retrain annoying and even dangerous behaviors (like throwing toys and tantrums, running away from you, etc.) Prioritize taking care of you, giving you more energy (and sanity) for the sometimes exhausting parenting journey Develop your own core beliefs as a parent, helping you establish and achieve your goals for your family Taras honesty, approachability, and candor will engage you while offering insights that may keep you sane for the next eighteen-ish or so years. Put on an educational show for the kids (ha!), pour your fifth cup of coffee for the day (she knows its only nine a.m.), and gain some wisdom on how to teach your kids to be good (some advice works for spouses as well).

Download or read book A Musician’s Paradox: The Ups, Downs, and Ebb and Flow of Being a Pensive Musician written by Ty Kiernan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Musician's Paradox author and lifelong working musician Ty Kiernan explores the intersection of music and philosophy with a series of philosophical discussions on life, human behavior, music, faith, relationships, and the connection between musician and instrument. Being torn between two worlds-with the frustration, the insecurity, and the dearth of understanding about why musicians play music, all the while loving and not being able to give up an obsession with music itself-he focuses on the particular psyche of the musician but appeals to all who contemplate this almost inherent duality of their own existence. Music is life and life is music, and music can ultimately transmute into wisdom-that is, it can raise our consciousness to help wisdom flow within us. For the musician-and perhaps for everyone-thinking about these connections and the relationship between cause and effect in general may offer us a clue into the possibility of something more in our lives.

Download or read book To and from Gigs written by Herb Hicks and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb Hicks is an artist who understands the fear behind painting a self-portrait but who also appreciates that a candid recounting of events in life can provide an emotional catharsis. It is with this theory in mind that he shares his fascinating personal experiences and insight into his views as he recalls a unique journey through a creative life filled with adventures and misadventures. In his memoir, Hicks begins with remembrances from his childhood growing up in North Dakota, where he emulated his cowboy heroes by riding a pretend horse, wearing real bearskin chaps, and firing a Red Ryder BB gun at imaginary desperadoes. As he matured, he found a passion for music, formed his own combo, and began traveling to and from gigs that took him from North Dakota to Montana and beyond. Motivated by his love for music, Hicks eventually landed in California, where he began playing professionally and found a new passion as a visual artist a discovery that leads him down an unforgettable path, questioning his challenges, choices, chances, and changes. To and from Gigs is the intimate memoir of a musician, artist, and teacher who embarked on a lifelong search to find his better self.

Download or read book Paranormals for Hire written by Cheryl Blair and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live amongst each other on a daily basis without actually knowing who we are. Everyone has a secret. Kalai and Dylan just so happen to share the same secret with a twist to Kalai who just so happens to have several secrets. Kalai, the beautiful wolf, along with Dylan, the handsome wolf, is about to set the world on fire with their love for each other through trials and tribulations. Who they are will make them a powerful couple to be wrecking with. The only thing stopping them is a little case of amnesia. Will the powerful wolves conquer all, or will amnesia stop everything? Let's take this journey with Kalai and Dylan. I'm with the paranormal, how about you? Kalai the beautiful paranormal has powers beyond her control, and with her handsome mate at her side, nothing will stop her from being the most powerful wolf/witch/vamp in the world. Like I said, we all have secrets.

Download or read book From Daughter to Woman written by Kim McCabe and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A refreshingly healthy take on social media and particularly good on body image' Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times The teen years are tough - for teens and for parents. Many parents dread the moodiness, dishonesty, preference of friends over family, exam stress, and the push for greater independence. Mothers have a pivotal role to play; this is a guidebook for parents and mothers of girls in particular as they navigate the rocky teenage landscape with their daughters aged 8 to 18. It aims to help them embrace the potential of their child's teenage years by marking this time of growing maturity for girls and celebrating it with them. We celebrate birth, marriage and death, but this important life-transition from child to young adult is nowadays rarely acknowledged within an appropriate community. With mental health issues in young people on the rise, and social media, reality television and smartphone culture serving to exacerbate these problems, it is no surprise that parents are looking for help in raising their daughters through these tricky years. From Daughter to Woman is the indispensable guide to doing just that.

Download or read book Overcoming Anger written by Windy Dryden and published by Sheldon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you struggling to control your anger? Feel like you're on a short fuse all the time? Do little things tip you over the edge? Unhelpful beliefs and rigid expectations can lead to a cycle of unhealthy anger, which can be dangerous and destructive. Windy Dryden draws a distinction between healthy and unhealthy anger, and shows you how you can control your unhealthy anger by understanding what triggers it. The good news is that you have the power to change this pattern, and to develop strategies to express your anger in a helpful way, so that you can communicate what you feel without scaring yourself, or those close to you. Practical, rational, strategic and supportive, this updated second edition contains the latest therapeutic insights, allowing you to make lasting and meaningful changes to the way you process your beliefs and manage overwhelming or destructive emotions.