tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85274189946473198232024-03-21T11:53:47.759-07:00Reading Our StoriesExpanding Our Minds One Page At A TimeLinda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-18037715546719771162011-10-09T11:47:00.000-07:002011-10-09T11:54:33.805-07:00Presenting Kadir Nelson<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage. But it is also the story of injustice; of a country divided by law, education, and wealth; of a people whose struggles and achievements helped define their country. This is the story of the men, women, and children who toiled in the hot sun picking cotton for their masters; it’s about the America ripped in two by Jim Crow laws; it’s about the brothers and sisters of all colors who rallied against those who would dare bar a child from an education. It’s a story of discrimination and broken promises, determination and triumphs. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiracIpB-_hEzq8qdvXnVpih3BJg55dbQKXchjW0w6sXWu048kVBOYuu052-3jO4sKFPRYnp8yMzZWewyEh6OpCKjltUgL-iadY79usNdxsl5EqeTRC2lEzP1_JXKlZBlRKHvI2Jp4DW0U/s1600/Heart+and+Soul.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" height="200" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiracIpB-_hEzq8qdvXnVpih3BJg55dbQKXchjW0w6sXWu048kVBOYuu052-3jO4sKFPRYnp8yMzZWewyEh6OpCKjltUgL-iadY79usNdxsl5EqeTRC2lEzP1_JXKlZBlRKHvI2Jp4DW0U/s200/Heart+and+Soul.bmp" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Kadir Nelson, one of this generation’s most accomplished, award-winning artists, has created an epic yet intimate introduction to the history of America and African Americans, from colonial days through the civil rights movement. Written in the voice of an “Everywoman,” an unnamed narrator whose forebears came to this country on slave ships and who lived to cast her vote for the first African American president, heart and soul touches on some of the great transformative events and small victories of that history. This inspiring book demonstrates that in gaining their freedom and equal rights, African Americans helped our country achieve its promise of liberty and justice—the true heart and soul of our nation. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">To learn more about Kadir visit him at:</span> <a href="http://www.kadirnelson.com/"><strong>www.kadirnelson.com</strong></a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Listen to him speak</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0VzAL3WnGY"><strong>HERE</strong></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Lis</span></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-31142375054458753982011-08-31T20:03:00.000-07:002011-08-31T20:10:49.465-07:00Tell The Truth - Shame the Devil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJqjVM5_GOG1T8stHO8Ew69psbgJ3c1lyddH5vFHRQqJ39in-3h3qOsdmXoWJUCtCf3IcjdJlApIaIeaKOEqMGfdCj1JU7tOCDUm_IXoUEDXFwiVKP0M5c8BEgeuAEgGVTNZXI9mXa0/s1600/Nat+Turner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJqjVM5_GOG1T8stHO8Ew69psbgJ3c1lyddH5vFHRQqJ39in-3h3qOsdmXoWJUCtCf3IcjdJlApIaIeaKOEqMGfdCj1JU7tOCDUm_IXoUEDXFwiVKP0M5c8BEgeuAEgGVTNZXI9mXa0/s200/Nat+Turner.jpg" width="200" xaa="true" /></a></div><em>The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . .</em><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the captives free. When words failed, he ignited an uprising that left over fifty whites dead. In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand, brandishing a sword in the other. His rebellion shined a national spotlight on slavery and the state of Virginia and divided a nation’s trust. Turner himself became a lightning rod for abolitionists like Harriet Beecher Stowe and a terror and secret shame for slave owners.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwJJVA-umukZ0ZKIHNoS1SlNTFbDJ073d3v38Kp8uMaAZhz5ED_IQokCvu4ifoQeo_aNqE5ymf8a1o3fnkTIQc0wm-PfBrJxc2MaOqhHgrjVMYW-AOJoKa4rucoNIQSw1mUtTwKyGblUg/s1600/Sharon+Ewell+Foster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwJJVA-umukZ0ZKIHNoS1SlNTFbDJ073d3v38Kp8uMaAZhz5ED_IQokCvu4ifoQeo_aNqE5ymf8a1o3fnkTIQc0wm-PfBrJxc2MaOqhHgrjVMYW-AOJoKa4rucoNIQSw1mUtTwKyGblUg/s200/Sharon+Ewell+Foster.jpg" width="170" xaa="true" /></a>In <em>The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses, </em>Nat Turner’s story is revealed through the eyes and minds of slaves and masters, friends and foes. In their words is the truth of the mystery and conspiracy of Nat Turner’s life, death, and confession.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><em>The Resurrection of Nat Turner </em>spans more than sixty years, sweeping from the majestic highlands of Ethiopia to the towns of Cross Keys and Jerusalem in Southampton County. Using extensive research, Sharon Ewell Foster breaks hallowed ground in this epic novel, revealing long-buried secrets about this tragic hero. <strong>Listen to synopsis</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJNQRCoObKw">HERE</a></strong>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To learn more about the award-winning, best selling Ms. Ewell-Foster and her many works, visit her online at: <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://sharonewellfoster.com/"><strong><em>http://sharonewellfoster.com/</em></strong></a><strong><em> </em></strong></span></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-46065210969239003082011-08-31T19:30:00.000-07:002011-08-31T19:30:50.585-07:00If Sons Then Heirs<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2v4pD_YPUrAYAY7Knmjxd2EjSNiETgFA7ao9FVhq6bbGX7NqGQNIHWHwSZXR0A3BCiOLDJ8f5GRrQdkAY3qLSHPyKpCts4rTqhVzL1JJikZ_5dTlPJ1WoRrhqh8tCwNBjaqvuQcR-o/s1600/If+Sons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2v4pD_YPUrAYAY7Knmjxd2EjSNiETgFA7ao9FVhq6bbGX7NqGQNIHWHwSZXR0A3BCiOLDJ8f5GRrQdkAY3qLSHPyKpCts4rTqhVzL1JJikZ_5dTlPJ1WoRrhqh8tCwNBjaqvuQcR-o/s200/If+Sons.jpg" width="132" xaa="true" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;">If Sons Then Heirs</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> chronicles the life of Rayne Needham South, the heir to generational property in South Carolina he originally has no interest in. Life for the young construction businessman begins to radically change when the mother who abandoned him suddenly reappears and circumstances surrounding his inheritance opens the door to carefully held secrets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Garamond", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lorene Cary’s words paint a vivid picture of lives shrouded in secrecy that threaten the future. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-48310432427891658052011-04-03T22:01:00.000-07:002011-04-03T22:01:40.785-07:00POWDER NECKLACE - NANA EKUA-BREW HAMMOND<div align="center">ENJOY AN EXCERPT: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sHRXB3hjwA&feature=related">HERE</a></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIu7yYGxUKhIgZ6Cjt-bFik6BRK8kl6yiMqzz9kXe2Rhtr_1BE4GR1Q7l_2WowyA1xW-oy0I7rkk2vlcGKp_4DvaYMCSEEJ0tXVd4i6CiY1HABicg-YK04mRa6CwK71j6gCEHFoK91nd4/s1600/Powder+Necklace.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIu7yYGxUKhIgZ6Cjt-bFik6BRK8kl6yiMqzz9kXe2Rhtr_1BE4GR1Q7l_2WowyA1xW-oy0I7rkk2vlcGKp_4DvaYMCSEEJ0tXVd4i6CiY1HABicg-YK04mRa6CwK71j6gCEHFoK91nd4/s400/Powder+Necklace.bmp" width="258" /></a></div><div align="center"></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-2720114124868342992011-04-01T22:59:00.000-07:002011-04-01T22:59:14.213-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tA34lJCDbGeiK851DHBlm8y-Aq64vHYq9WXQT-hOUhU13_w_VN81KwLsMj3Lmt-uprnwNj8idLwlho6vmmsNfr9rkOFwcXL16BgKFxCaNrxFqocljcDD9lfx09IZDS3qIsgFMLxVLBQ/s1600/Lift+Him+Up+Poster.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tA34lJCDbGeiK851DHBlm8y-Aq64vHYq9WXQT-hOUhU13_w_VN81KwLsMj3Lmt-uprnwNj8idLwlho6vmmsNfr9rkOFwcXL16BgKFxCaNrxFqocljcDD9lfx09IZDS3qIsgFMLxVLBQ/s640/Lift+Him+Up+Poster.bmp" width="422" /></a></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-28487358315055695702011-01-21T21:53:00.000-08:002011-01-21T21:53:41.592-08:00RECOGNIZING HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY<h1 style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><img align="right" alt="candice wiggens" height="171" hspace="2" src="http://f654.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=1%5f2485720%5fABwJDUwAAWqWTTmy2gtDzV%2b5UZo&pid=1.2.3&fid=Inbox&inline=1" vspace="2" width="193" />THE OTHER CITY </h1><div class="yiv2016941209MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_1" style="border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted; cursor: hand;">FREE SCREENING</span><br />
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011</span></b><b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: orange;">Reception and Lab tours begin @ 5:30PM<br />
Screening @ 6PM</span></span></b><b><br />
PELTON AUDITORIUM (<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1100+Fairview+Avenue+North,+Seattle,+WA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.922255,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1100+Fairview+Ave+N,+Seattle,+King,+Washington+98109&z=16" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_2">MAP</span></a>)</b><br />
1100 Fairview Avenue<br />
<b><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_3" style="border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted; cursor: hand;">FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: orange;"><b><i><span style="color: #660000;">WNBA STAR CANDICE WIGGINS IN ATTENDANCE</span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "sans-serif";">.The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_4" style="border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted; cursor: hand;">Langston Hughes</span> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_5">African American Film</span> Festival TM is pleased to join the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_6">HIV Vaccine Trials</span> Unit of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in presenting a free public screening of the new documentary, THE OTHER CITY, directed by Susan Koch and produced by BET founder Sheila C. Johnson. In every city, there’s another city that visitors rarely see. But this other city isn’t just anywhere—it’s in Washington, D.C. The very city that is home to the capitol of the most powerful country in the world has an HIV/AIDS rate that is not only the nation’s highest, but rivals some African countries.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/candice_wiggins/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>Candice Wiggins</strong></span></a><span style="color: orange;"><strong>,</strong></span> a guard for the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_7">WNBA</span>’s <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_8">Minnesota Lynx</span> and former All American basketball player for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_9">Stanford University</span>, will provide opening remarks. Wiggins lost her father, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_10">former Major League Baseball player</span> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_11">Alan Wiggins</span>, to AIDS when she was 4 years old and today is outspoken about HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.<br />
The screening will take place the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 2 in honor of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day later in the month. It will be preceded by a reception, lab tours and opening remarks by Wiggins and will be followed by a community discussion. The event takes place at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Pelton <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_12">Auditorium</span> (Thomas Clinical Research Building), 1100 Fairview Ave. N., downtown <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_13">Seattle</span>. Seating is limited. For free tickets, information about transportation and directions, please contact James at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_14" style="border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted; cursor: hand;"><span class="skype_v3_tb_injection_print" context="" id="softomate_v3_print_0">206-667-1979</span></span> or <a href="http://us.mc654.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=info@seattlevaccines.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:info@seattlevaccines.org"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_15"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>info@seattlevaccines.org</strong></span></span></a><span style="color: orange;"><strong>.</strong></span><br />
The screening of this 90-minute documentary is sponsored by the HIV Vaccine Trials Unit of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in collaboration with the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival ™.<br />
Schedule of events:<br />
· Reception and lab tours from 5:30 to 6 p.m.<br />
· Opening remarks at 6 p.m.<br />
· Screening of “The Other City” from 6:30 to 8 p.m.<br />
· Community discussion from 8 to 9 p.m.<br />
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Please visit the LHAAFF website for more information: <a href="http://langstonblackfilmfest.org/" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1295674595_16"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>langstonblackfilmfest.org</strong></span></span></a> </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-38222834688698748502011-01-18T22:31:00.000-08:002011-01-18T22:31:35.460-08:00Survival of the Fittest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRESVzIV4cOFG01C1fiK4Ug4FD7xybMEs1iWNBUKTcT496h65hIUNN28vOCc-V_R4nQinzBn17-Q99r-0orI6jlohgwdYeuzc1uYex3YZF6mhC4uzkSFGGFqzuoCAuX-YDENTnWRvSbxw/s1600/Surviving+Chadwick.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRESVzIV4cOFG01C1fiK4Ug4FD7xybMEs1iWNBUKTcT496h65hIUNN28vOCc-V_R4nQinzBn17-Q99r-0orI6jlohgwdYeuzc1uYex3YZF6mhC4uzkSFGGFqzuoCAuX-YDENTnWRvSbxw/s200/Surviving+Chadwick.bmp" width="133" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Chadwick-Novel-Phillip-Wilhite/dp/1936236087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1295418232&sr=8-1"><span style="color: white;">Surviving Chadwick</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: orange;"><strong>by debut author Phillip Wilhite is a reminder of sacrifices worth making. Too young to understand the bondage of Jim Crow, young Isaiah Issacson does not agree with his parent’s decision for him to enroll into Chadwick, an elite boarding school. </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>This work, although familiar in many ways, gives the reader something new through Isaiah’s narrative voice. With strong prose the author invites the reader inside the mind of the searching teen as he struggles with the mindsets of classmates, instructors and the real and imagined drama that comes with being fifteen. Added to his state of dissatisfaction are his lingering thoughts of Jenaye Gardner. Fifteen years later a request for him to attend a Chadwick reunion includes a note from Jenaye. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this pivotal point in his life he reflects upon <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEzRALZ30oRssR_-RllTLO69iPKoM-VDza2dTyLO-ngnaQwuLtuuSEqMxljFG-cza88-3dklX1YBwikN15vvC421zWKSpADafdcCTxodr2-Dk6S4mNvsVhfYFWOlT6MyeEIcMkAwmkJU/s1600/Phillip+Wilhite.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEzRALZ30oRssR_-RllTLO69iPKoM-VDza2dTyLO-ngnaQwuLtuuSEqMxljFG-cza88-3dklX1YBwikN15vvC421zWKSpADafdcCTxodr2-Dk6S4mNvsVhfYFWOlT6MyeEIcMkAwmkJU/s1600/Phillip+Wilhite.bmp" /></a>those bittersweet times, that whether he admits it or not, helped to shape who he has become. </strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>This is a period piece that reaches beyond its past tense era to become a relevant conversation for today.</strong></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>Learn more about the author and his works at:</strong></span> <a href="http://survivingchadwick.com/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: "Bodoni MT"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Bodoni MT";"><span style="color: white;"><em><strong>http://survivingchadwick.com/</strong></em></span></span></a><span style="color: white;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></span></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-46722678376674715492011-01-17T00:01:00.000-08:002011-01-17T00:01:03.517-08:00Lest We Forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fa5eN0yThqI0IwmM9N3R8wYYjoczVaHn4LoKdPF97DJIsRW2IiOF2Pj9dgPt37P5nbOfF1M0aDTAnzguPkbW_2QNbTGBw9b3NfRPru7XrRhNLZ33lFZ_CZuIsrTaGSXl_3lpwaZxXfA/s1600/MLK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5fa5eN0yThqI0IwmM9N3R8wYYjoczVaHn4LoKdPF97DJIsRW2IiOF2Pj9dgPt37P5nbOfF1M0aDTAnzguPkbW_2QNbTGBw9b3NfRPru7XrRhNLZ33lFZ_CZuIsrTaGSXl_3lpwaZxXfA/s320/MLK.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: orange;">Online Product Description - "We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif";"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These prophetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. <i>A Testament of Hope</i> contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.</span> </span></span></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-3624618811284225252010-11-24T10:28:00.000-08:002010-11-24T11:56:46.131-08:00My Book List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AbiZFchO_qyVHC9FggdhED2tRfmCfeLakUG5RZlYfDxU7Q6IdglsbbyBetqGsVDUj38sC0JcQIkZnXfvLsBh78W0149Dogl1x50jF_FpVESoAsM3sQZv2xmAKpk5It_A5YKhDP-qs1k/s1600/books.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="361" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AbiZFchO_qyVHC9FggdhED2tRfmCfeLakUG5RZlYfDxU7Q6IdglsbbyBetqGsVDUj38sC0JcQIkZnXfvLsBh78W0149Dogl1x50jF_FpVESoAsM3sQZv2xmAKpk5It_A5YKhDP-qs1k/s400/books.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: large;">Okay y'all I must be stir crazy to be doing this. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday I received a list of 100 books from a friend. My instructions were to highlight the ones I've read then pass it on. As I read I couldn't help but notice that although the books listed are wonderful reads and ones I've enjoyed over the years, few titles presented spoke to my life experiences. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">Soooo, off the top of my head I began to compile a list of books I've enjoyed and found memorable. If you're so led, highlight those you may have read, add some of your own and pass the list on. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> A</span> Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 9.0pt .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Jubilee – Margaret Walker</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Color Purple - Alice Walker<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Wedding - Dorothy West<br />
5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Go Tell It On the Mountain - Richard Wright<br />
6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Known World - Edward P. Jones<br />
7.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wench - Dolan Perkins-Valdez<br />
8.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Beloved - Toni Morrison<br />
9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Slavery by Another Name: </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: .25in; text-indent: -31.5pt;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Re-enslavement of African Americans from the Civil War to World War II<br />
Douglas A. Blackmon</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">10.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">11.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Known to Evil - Walter Mosley<br />
12.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Emperor of Ocean Park - Stephen Carter<br />
13.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Roots - Alex Haley<br />
14.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Autobiography of Malcolm X - As told by Alex Haley<br />
15.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Those Bones Are Not My Child - Toni Cade Bambara</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">16. Business Unusual – Linda F. Beed</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">17. Linden Hills - Gloria Naylor<br />
18.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Making of Isaac Hunt – Linda Leigh Hargrove<br />
19.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Abrahams Well - Sharon Ewell Foster<br />
20.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unsigned Hype - Booker T. Mattison<br />
21.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Their Eyes are Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston<br />
22.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou<br />
23.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Budd Not Buddy Christopher - Paul Curtis<br />
24.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The People Could Fly - Virginia Hamilton<br />
25.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My Jim - Nancy Rawles</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">26.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Home Again: Stories of Restored Relationships – </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wanda B. Campbell, Maurice M. Gray, Jr., Linda F. Beed, Shenette Jones, Tyora Moody,</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Trinea Moss, Bernard Boulton, Tavares Carney, Dijorn Moss</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">27.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t Blame the Devil – Pat G’Orge-Walker <br />
28. Keeper of Secrets: Translations of an Incident - Anjuelle Floyd</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">29. Breath, Eyes, Memories – Edwidge Danticat<br />
30. Redemption Song - Bertice Berry<br />
31. Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Sun - J. California Cooper<br />
32. Till You Hear From Me - Pearl Cleage<br />
33. What I Know for Sure: My Growing Up In America - Tavis Smiley<br />
34. The Classic Slave Narratives - Henry Louis Gates</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">35.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So Long A Letter – Miriama Ba<br />
36.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Bondswoman - Narrative Hannah Crafts<br />
37. The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten - Charlotte L. Forten and Ray Allen Billington<br />
38. The Audacity of Hope - President Barak Obama<br />
39. Porch Stories - Jewell Parker-Rhodes<br />
40. Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna<br />
41. For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principle - Madeline Cartwright<br />
42. Simply Divine Teen Series - Jacqueline Thomas</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">43. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters – John Steptoe</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">44. The Hundred Penny Box – Sharon Bell Mathis<br />
45. The Measure of a Man – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
46. 72 Hour Hold - Bebe Moore Campbell</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">47.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines</span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sugar – Bernice McFadden</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">49.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Douglass’ Women – Jewell Parker-Rhodes</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">50.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabella Wilkerson</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .25in;"><br />
</div></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-28184846233424109682010-11-22T00:01:00.000-08:002010-11-22T00:01:01.521-08:00The House by Anjuelle Floyd<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7EvdFCi3OVcXJxnG1prdu4Yx0H4P8v6eZtTBk_gCZbGSgu4pi7DohX66L7qQ1VnBUPh0jWUARt9a7VafW-FTSc6_qu1kKWsPmLacZwtY75UPawXlaI-wtpGFbHoVaFFf1a36-WOmWn0/s1600/The+House+Tour+Logo.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt7EvdFCi3OVcXJxnG1prdu4Yx0H4P8v6eZtTBk_gCZbGSgu4pi7DohX66L7qQ1VnBUPh0jWUARt9a7VafW-FTSc6_qu1kKWsPmLacZwtY75UPawXlaI-wtpGFbHoVaFFf1a36-WOmWn0/s400/The+House+Tour+Logo.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">A faithful wife for over thirty years all Anna Manning wants out of her divorce is the house where she raised her family. The only thing Edward Manning refuses to give her is—the house.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">After a year of battling he abruptly chances his mind. Knowing him too well, Anna seeks the source of his sudden change of heart. What she discovers reroutes carefully laid plans for her future. It also opens the door to candor and insight from her children who will share their points of view regarding their parents and their own relationships.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">Utilizing strong characters <em><a href="http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>Ms. Floyd</strong></span></a></em> skillfully draws the reader into an intriguing story of what happens when we allow others to disrespect us and the consequences suffered by others because of it.</span></span></span></span><br />
<h2 style="margin: auto 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange;">CHARACTER SKETCH: Meet Serine Manning</span></span></h2><h2 style="margin: auto 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange;">Have you ever wondered how a writer comes up with her characters? Author Anjuelle Floyd provides a peek inside the profile of one of the Manning’s children.</span></span></i></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Like individuals in life, protagonists are known by the company they keep. The supporting cast of a story or novel reflect aspects, most often shattered, of the narrative’s main character.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Interactions with these characters unearths undiscovered aspects of personality, often times flaws, that the stand or lay too close upon the central character and thus out of range of their awareness.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">I recently read an author’s statement that, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plot is but an externalization of the central character’s deepest internal conflict</i>.”</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">While on the surface, Anna’s dilemma sits squarely with Edward’s infidelity throughout their marriage. Coupled with her decision and her ultimate achievement of gaining his agreement to her requested divorce, and that they sell the house.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">At outset of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000090;"><span style="color: orange;">The House,</span></span></i></b> we see that Anna, in fact gains more than for which she fought. Edward does not simply agree to the divorce, he deeds her the house to do with as she chooses.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Anna has many choices. She could have divorced Edward, and sold the house. She could have sold the house and not divorced Edward. She chooses to focus on Edward and her children. In so doing, she does not divorce. She does not sell the house.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">The night after of arrival Serine, Anna and Edward’s youngest child, puts many questions to Anna concerning not just Anna’s decision to divorce Edward, but mainly Anna’s desire to move to France.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">One can only imagine the experience of having been the youngest child of a four, in a family where the father, thought responsible and loving of the children, had shown infidelity to their mother in the midst of providing well for his family.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">My youngest daughter recently expressed fear and concern about her father and my husband choosing to abandon us. Her anxieties rose from having seen him in a bookstore reading Playboy Magazine. <br />
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He happened to be reading and article on football, something she did not see. Her eyes and attention had remained firmly focused on the cover containing a provocatively dressed, or perhaps undress woman. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Our youngest daughter is eleven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where the middle child or children present as the rebels, to that of the elder serving as the mascot and carrying the family banner or the royal standard, so-to-speak, the challenge of youngest children is gaining respect from those elder and eldest to her or him. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">They want not only to be heard, but their words considered and weighed not so much for actual and literal truth, though they possess that too, but ultimately the emotional truth their words and ideas, observations and imaginings bear not simply for themselves, but for the family at large.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">No, my husband is not having an affair, something I pointed out, not by saying it, but in stating, that if her father was having an affair I wonder how much time he was spending with this person, or how he ever got to be with them since he is always so busy doing things with and for her and her two older sisters, and for me.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">On considering my question, our youngest child grew calm. I had presented a perspective of which she had been otherwise unaware. I also pointed out that the magazines about which she was speaking are usually wrapped in plastic and kept out of the reach of minors and children her age.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">My husband has a continual physical presence in our family. He likes being home and talking with the girls, hearing what they have to say, playing board games and watching movies, television shows and sporting events with them. He also likes to be near me when I am writing. Often times he lies on the couch in our study while I write in the wee hours of the morning.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Our daughters know this, have seen this occur.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">And yet my youngest held this concern when observing him read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Playboy Magazine,</i> to which she had attached certain meanings that held instability, disrespect, and lack of love and commitment.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Out of the mouths of babes...</span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 4.3pt 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">The youngest child in a family stands in a unique position, one that allows them to observe the various machinations within a family that seal and protect it, and sadly, many times, rips it apart. </span></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbweJAh6gWRvEbJx6AQCoZ9XFyim0FYZ49eiNMJgKy-SkMt6Oka-NQVeBlaiOap7yjBZtaKuAVwm0ON6Vu3ugUdaxq7QD6Qy5GTJi0-yk4hYf70rcBLH-whm7G1VH5-45u3XgsIFir6ro/s1600/Kindle.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbweJAh6gWRvEbJx6AQCoZ9XFyim0FYZ49eiNMJgKy-SkMt6Oka-NQVeBlaiOap7yjBZtaKuAVwm0ON6Vu3ugUdaxq7QD6Qy5GTJi0-yk4hYf70rcBLH-whm7G1VH5-45u3XgsIFir6ro/s1600/Kindle.bmp" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate the release of her novel, The House, author Anjuelle Floyd is offering a (1) Kindle Wi-Fi (retail value: $139.00) as a part of her promotional blog tour. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED<b> DECEMBER 1, 2010.</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Bodoni MT;"></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Bodoni MT;"></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: Bodoni MT;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">About the Author</span></span></span></b></span> <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVkYaDSuF4XNB5Bsq1kfUzGXF8E0rB-yxx-iX_Rbb6po2Mg18o-sakkP4ZbJupTaqgiwL03NQ4baTwsH-_dg-NoxANpzEE1-STm8SGmVK7XTTT_HmqwNpbTg3aE4lqqzB3X7oZDA-7zQ/s1600/Anjuelle+Floyd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVkYaDSuF4XNB5Bsq1kfUzGXF8E0rB-yxx-iX_Rbb6po2Mg18o-sakkP4ZbJupTaqgiwL03NQ4baTwsH-_dg-NoxANpzEE1-STm8SGmVK7XTTT_HmqwNpbTg3aE4lqqzB3X7oZDA-7zQ/s200/Anjuelle+Floyd.jpg" width="133" /></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Anjuelle Floyd is a wife of twenty-eight years, mother of three, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in mother-daughter relations and dream work.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">A graduate of Duke University, she received her MA in Counseling Psychology from The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. She has attended the Dominican Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, California, and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Port Townsend, Washington. She has received certificates of participation from The Hurston-Wright Writers’ Week and The Voices of Our Nations Writing Workshops.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">A student of Process Painting for the last decade, Anjuelle has participated in The Art of Living Black Exhibitions 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 held at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;">Anjuelle facilitates writing groups and provides individual consultation of fiction projects. She also gives talks on The Need for Family, the Writing Process as a Path Toward Self-discovery and Healing.</span></span></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";">For More Information:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Visit the author online at </span><a href="http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">http://www.anjuellefloyd.com</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">View the blog tour schedule at </span><a href="http://bit.ly/TheHouseBlogTour" title="http://bit.ly/TheHouseBlogTour"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">http://bit.ly/TheHouseBlogTour</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><h2 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br />
</span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";">Purchase the Book Online at:</span><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"></span></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><a href="http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/books/the-house/"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/books/the-house/</span></a></span></div></span>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-72713762887780210862010-11-20T11:26:00.000-08:002010-11-20T11:58:40.819-08:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-U3z2pG5wfmd1OkAn5zKifmNZkBJWtP1NJfLtO6dO8rMRVfXo8vXWXaAZXpqO2cfK5LpjOdxqDfqJnmwXXWmPvD6UMzUBejVPv1iRjtxSd9uIuz8kUoy8TNrv6-FH2GfqOLZ5afBzRto/s1600/The+Warmth+of+Other+Suns+1.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="289" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-U3z2pG5wfmd1OkAn5zKifmNZkBJWtP1NJfLtO6dO8rMRVfXo8vXWXaAZXpqO2cfK5LpjOdxqDfqJnmwXXWmPvD6UMzUBejVPv1iRjtxSd9uIuz8kUoy8TNrv6-FH2GfqOLZ5afBzRto/s400/The+Warmth+of+Other+Suns+1.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: white;">“A movement without a leader…” They are simple words with generational impact. They imply that something of great importance took place. They are words spoken by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, in reference to her epic work, The Warmth of Other Suns.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">This insightful work chronicles the migration of over six million African Americans from Jim Crow South to the North, West and Midwest portions of the United States. It is the journey of a people looking for more than what society deemed suitable for them changed not only the course of their lives, but that of generations to come. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: white;">What most believed would be a satisfying compilation of impersonal facts, is far from that assumption.</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-Suns-Americas-Migration/dp/0679444327/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290280090&sr=8-1"><strong><em>The Warmth of Other Suns</em></strong></a> <span style="color: white;">is much more than that.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="color: white;">The title, borrowed from a phrase within Richard Wright’s ‘Black Boy’, sets the foundation of what would become Ms. Wilkerson’s twelve year quest to compile, understand and then present this masterful treatise. More than that, by determining which three of the over 1,200 personal interviews to focus upon, the mass exodus becomes as personal as receiving stored memories at the knee of an aging elder.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Its content is that which will provoke a variety of thoughts and reactions. Regardless the response it is a work of hardships as well as triumphs. Above all it presents truth presented in its purest form.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong><span style="color: white;">To learn more about Ms. Wilkerson and her works you can visit her online at:</span><em> </em></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><a href="http://www.isabelwilkerson.com/"><span style="color: orange;"><strong><em>www.isabelwilkerson.com</em></strong></span></a><span style="color: orange;"><strong> </strong></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-14969379341509829692010-10-08T17:20:00.000-07:002010-10-08T17:20:50.374-07:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="color: orange;">SPECIAL EVENT FOR</span></strong> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: white; font-size: x-large;"><strong>SEATTLE CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT</strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Friday, October 15, 2010, 6:-8:30pm</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Gathering Hall at New Holly </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">7054 - 32nd Ave. S. Seattle, WA 98118</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">_______________________________________________________</span></div><div align="center"><br />
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</div>Linda!http://www.blogger.com/profile/09088892611538648055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8527418994647319823.post-59378190258996131932010-10-05T23:22:00.000-07:002010-10-08T18:41:01.567-07:00Standing Tall<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTYWQseQFTbVt1ZLiMp-15gJp-GBF5WWelIkdOjmMbdLNxEX-_NK-wZnX522wmEgSmqNH2buhbzo5bmo8_4Qn1SHlAFKIuqbk6ZigEyX8vgqlgAFKZGiYb8cwzqvyYXbIndpqRtqlkIMo/s1600/I'm+Still+Standing.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTYWQseQFTbVt1ZLiMp-15gJp-GBF5WWelIkdOjmMbdLNxEX-_NK-wZnX522wmEgSmqNH2buhbzo5bmo8_4Qn1SHlAFKIuqbk6ZigEyX8vgqlgAFKZGiYb8cwzqvyYXbIndpqRtqlkIMo/s320/I'm+Still+Standing.bmp" width="210" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">Most came to know the name, ‘Shoshana Johnson’ from the headlines that proclaimed her 2003 captivity in Iraq. Her story is the stuff that movies are made of, people line the streets to applaud and honor is given to whom it is due. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Bodoni MT", "serif";"><span style="font-size: large;">For Shoshana Johnson her 22 day ordeal was the beginning of what turned the world of this army cook turned Shero, inside out. Within in the pages of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Standing-Captive-Citizen-My/dp/1416567488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286587941&sr=8-1">I’m Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen—My Journey Home</a></i></b>, Ms. Johnson candidly reveals her innermost fears as she prayed to be rescued from the ambush that killed 11 of her comrades and left her with injuries sustained from gunshots to both ankles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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