Never Goin Back

Download or read book Never Goin' Back written by Maggie Mylie and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a carefree childhood, Maggie's adolescent to teenage years would have but one flaw: her mother. Her remedy to this problem would be found in one perfect man that she met her first year away at college. However, her "home remedy," coupled with her lack of understanding about her mother and her "perfect man," would lead her through the worst life she could have ever imagined for herself and her children. Her pride and selfish ambition would mask the dysfunction for years, until her grown children would rescue her, but not before she had taught all four children how to wear the same masks that she forced herself to wear. This is the true-life story of Maggie and the family curses that would negatively impact her and her children's lives. She assumes that she knows best how to live life at every turn and in every scenario, but can she be convinced that her pride is in the way? That there is a better way to do life? Once freed from the curses, the masks, and the man who holds them both, she continues to selfishly look for ways to satisfy the deepest longings of her heart...until her life intersects with a woman twenty years her senior, but not a day older in vitality and passion for life. Maggie is drawn to this mentor who adopts her as her own and endearingly refers to herself as her Mocha Mama. Maggie is just one of her hundreds of adopted children. Michelle leads her on a journey to find the most kind, loving, and fulfilling arms that would ever embrace her. It's a journey to wholeness, and she's never goin' back! The honest, open approach Maggie uses depicting her years of mishandling life is both refreshing and riveting. This authentic story of Maggie's demise, rescue, and redirection into an attainable fulfilling life will inspire you.

Download or read book Never Goin' Back written by Al Roker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular television personality discusses his battle with weight loss, describing his initial successes after bypass surgery, his efforts to get back on track after regaining lost weight, and his confrontation with goal-compromising childhood issues.

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Download or read book Fat Blame written by April Michelle Herndon and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight. Such a measure, once seen as extreme, quickly comes to be seen as a logical means of addressing a problem viewed as nothing short of child abuse. And yet, for all the purported concern for these children’s welfare, little if any mention is ever made of the psychological ramifications of removing children from their families. They are simply the latest victims of the war on obesity—a war declared on a “disease” but conducted, April Herndon contends in this book, along cultural lines. Fat Blame is a book about how the war on obesity is, in many ways, shaping up to be a battle against women and children, especially women and children who are marginalized via class and race. While conceding that fatness can be linked to certain conditions, or that some populations might be heavier than others, Herndon is more interested in the ways women and children are blamed for obesity and the ways interventions aimed at preventing obesity are problematic in and of themselves. From bariatric surgeries being performed on children to women being positioned as responsible for carrying to term a generation of thin children, her book looks closely at the stories of real people whose lives are drastically altered by interventions that are supposedly for their own good. As with so many practices surrounding bodies and health, like dieting, people are often simultaneously blamed and empowered through policies and interventions, especially those that seem to offer them choices. What Herndon reveals is how such choices only offer the illusion of being empowering. Rather, she shows how woman and children are pushed, pulled, and sometimes victimized by interventions such as bariatric surgeries, limits on reproductive technologies, and having their families broken up by the courts. Only by identifying members of this group as victims of discrimination, she argues, can we hope to return them to a fuller and richer kind of agency. In declaring a war on obesity, the United States has said that fat is one of the most serious enemies it faces. Fat Blame asks us to confront the real enemy—the moral, political, and ideological significance of our every move in this “war.”

Download or read book The Sunday Magazine written by Thomas Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The 2003 Young Southern Writers' Project of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival Anthology of New Plays written by Gwen Orel and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The YSWP Anthology of New Plays gives a voice to a new generation of Southern authors. The Plays of 2003: First Place: Shakespeare and Mushrooms by Samantha PaceSecond Place:Public Skool by Kali PyrlikThird Place:Responsibilities by Sarah SprayberryFinalists:Untitled by Hank BullockProvidence by Kristi DelaneyThe Tap Dancing King of Alabama by Logan DonaldsonShannon's Dilemma by Susie FaggThe Struggles of Callie McKay by Whitney HarveyE Pluribus Unum by Joan KovatchCharleston Heritage by Ashley PierTrailer Parks and Churches by Derek PrattRespite by Roger SmithBlack and White, Or Shades of Grey? by Cami Snell The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Young Southern Writers' Project Anthology of New Plays gives a voice to the next generation of Southern playwrights. The book contains works by the winners and finalists of the 2003 Young Southern Writers' Project competition, a one-act play competition for Alabama Teens. With an introduction by Artistic Director Kent Thompson and forward by Literary Manager Gwen Orel, this book also includes tips on playwriting, a list of good plays and books for beginning playwrights, and an example on proper play format. A must for aspiring playwrights and their teachers.

Download or read book Trials and Tears of the Past Few Years written by Dave Harris and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems are about life, love, passion, sense and non-sense.