Mama Tried

Author : Emily Flake
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781455558247

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Mama Tried by Emily Flake Pdf

New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake relates the hilarious horrors of pregnancy, birth, and early parenting in this funny, poignant, and beautifully illustrated book. For most people, having a child doesn't go exactly as planned. Not many are willing to admit that not only did they dislike the early days of parenting, they sometimes hated it. Mama Tried is a relatable collection of cartoons and essays pertaining to the good, bad, and (very) ugly parenting experiences we all face. Subjects range from "are you ready for children?" to "baby gear class-warfare." With incredible honesty, Flake tackles everything from morning sickness to sleep training, shedding much needed light on the gnarly realities of breastfeeding, child proofing, mommy groups, and every unrealistic expectation in between. Mama Tried will be an indispensable companion for sleepless parents and a fond reminder for those already out of the woods.

Author : Kelli Jo Ford
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802149145

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Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford Pdf

“A masterful debut” that follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades—from the Plimpton Prize–winning author (Sarah Jessica Parker). It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church—a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornados—intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home. In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifices for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent. “A compelling journey through the evolving terrain of multiple generations of women.” —The Washington Post

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Microcosm Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781621065050

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Mama Tried by Anonim Pdf

Cecilia Granata grew up cooking with her family in Italy. As a vegan, she learned to adapt her favorite recipes from around the country to be animal free while retaining the flavor and feeling of true Italian home cooking. She shares her commitment to ethical and artful eating in this alphabetically-arranged volume with over 100 recipes, ranging from traditional favorites to homemade liquors to aphrodisiacs—all "senza sofferenza," without suffering. The recipes are lushly illustrated with Granata's food-inspired tattoo art.

Author : David Cantwell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292754171

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Merle Haggard by David Cantwell Pdf

Merle Haggard has enjoyed artistic and professional triumphs few can match. He’s charted more than a hundred country hits, including thirty-eight number ones. He’s released dozens of studio albums and another half dozen or more live ones, performed upwards of ten thousand concerts, been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and seen his songs performed by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan. In 2011 he was feted as a Kennedy Center Honoree. But until now, no one has taken an in-depth look at his career and body of work. In Merle Haggard: The Running Kind, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard’s music and the life and times out of which it came. Covering the entire breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music, which helped invent the America we live in today. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including songs such as “Okie from Muskogee,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Mama Tried,” “Working Man Blues,” “Kern River,” “White Line Fever,” “Today I Started Loving You Again,” and “If We Make It through December,” among many more), Cantwell explores the fascinating contradictions—most of all, the desire for freedom in the face of limits set by the world or self-imposed—that define not only Haggard’s music and public persona but the very heart of American culture.

Author : Steve Gimbel
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812697445

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The Grateful Dead and Philosophy by Steve Gimbel Pdf

This book is another one of those late-night Grateful Dead inspired dorm room conversations with friends . . . only this time it’s your professors sitting cross-legged on the floor asking if anyone else wants to order a pizza. The Grateful Dead emerged from the San Francisco counter-culture movement of the late 1960s to become an American icon. Part of the reason they remain an institution four decades later is that they and their fans, the Deadheads, embody deviation from social, artistic, and industry norms. From the beginning, the Grateful Dead has represented rethinking what we do and how we do it. Their long, free-form jams stood in stark contrast to the three minute, radio friendly, formulaic rock that preceded them. Allowing their fans to tape and trade recordings of shows and distributing concert tickets themselves bucked the corporate control of popular music. The use of mind-altering chemicals questioned the nature of consciousness and reality. The practice of “touring,” following the band from city to city, living as modern day nomads presented a model distinct from the work-a-day option assumed by most in our corporate dominated culture. As a result, Deadheads are a quite introspective lot. The Grateful Dead and Philosophy contains essays from twenty professional philosophers whose love of the music and scene have led them to reflect on different philosophical questions that arise from the enigma that is the Grateful Dead. Coming from a variety of perspectives, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, The Grateful Dead and Philosophy considers how the Grateful Dead fits into the broader trends of American thought running through pragmatism and the Beat poets, how the parking lot scene with its tie-dyed t-shirt and veggie burrito vendors was both a rejection and embrace of capitalism, and whether Jerry Garcia and the Buddha were more than just a couple of fat guys talking about peace. The lyrics of the Grateful Dead’s many songs are also the basis for several essays considering questions of fate and freedom, the nature-nurture debate, and gamblers’ ethics.

Author : Eugene C. Rollins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781467877107

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The Power of the Spoken Word by Eugene C. Rollins Pdf

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will hurt me until the day I die. I dedicate this work to the clients of my forty-six years of therapy and pastoral work who have shared their pain and sorrow inflicted by words. No wound is more difficult to overcome than the wound caused by words. Love is destroyed by words. Families are separated by words. Young lives are placed on roads that lead to dead-ends and destructions by words. Careers are ended, reputations are lost and wars are begun all because of words. To the many who have suffered so greatly I pray this book will help others understand your pain. "Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a word spoken in right circumstances." (Proverbs 23:11 New American Standard Bible)

Author : David Cantwell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781477325698

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The Running Kind by David Cantwell Pdf

2022 Belmont Award for the Best Book on Country Music, International Country Music Conference/Belmont University New and expanded biography of one of country music’s most celebrated singer-songwriters. Merle Haggard enjoyed numerous artistic and professional triumphs, including more than a hundred country hits (thirty-eight at number one), dozens of studio and live album releases, upwards of ten thousand concerts, induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and songs covered by artists as diverse as Lynryd Skynyrd, Elvis Costello, Tammy Wynette, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Willie Nelson, the Grateful Dead, and Bob Dylan. In The Running Kind, a new edition that expands on his earlier analysis and covers Haggard's death and afterlife as an icon of both old-school and modern country music, David Cantwell takes us on a revelatory journey through Haggard’s music and the life and times out of which it came. Covering the breadth of his career, Cantwell focuses especially on the 1960s and 1970s, when Haggard created some of his best-known and most influential music: songs that helped invent the America we live in today. Listening closely to a masterpiece-crowded catalogue (including “Okie from Muskogee,” “Sing Me Back Home,” “Mama Tried,” and “Working Man Blues,” among many more), Cantwell explores the fascinating contradictions—most of all, the desire for freedom in the face of limits set by the world or self-imposed—that define not only Haggard’s music and public persona but the very heart of American culture.

Author : Abbie Halberstadt
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736983785

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M Is for Mama by Abbie Halberstadt Pdf

Mama of ten Abbie Halberstadt helps women humbly and gracefully rise to the high calling of motherhood without settling for mediocrity or losing their minds in the process. Motherhood is a challenge. Unfortunately, our worldly culture offers moms little in the way of real help. Mamas only connect to celebrate surviving another day and to share in their misery rather than rejoice in what God has done and to build each other up in hard times. There has a be a better way, a biblical way, for mamas to grow and thrive. As a daughter of Christ, you have been called to be more than an average mama. Attaining excellence doesn’t have to be unsettling but it will take committed focus and a desire to parent well according to God’s grace and for His glory. M is for Mama offers advice, encouragement, and scripturally sound strategies seasoned with a little bit of humor to help you embrace the challenge of biblical motherhood and raise your children with love and wisdom. Mama, you are worthy of the awesome responsibility God has given you. Now it’s time to start believing you can live up to it.

Author : Esther Bganya
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493193103

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Mama's Voice by Esther Bganya Pdf

Mamas Voice is the product of a middle-aged Christian psychiatrist and mother who journals her life observations and experiences, hoping to pass on some life lessons to her children. What started off as random journaling of thoughts ended up being a published book released as a birthday present for her children. The book is written in a random manner with life lessons ranging from self-esteem, bad habits, addictions, snobbery, conflict, money, selfishness, greed, and codependent relationships through to family dramas. The author attempts to capture some important life lessons with a touch of humor and rawness that depicts the real-life dramas. Both pleasurable and painful life observations and experiences are unapologetically expressed with a rawness that does not coat it with sweet candy. Its about real life seen through the eyes of a mother going through a midlife crisis and questioning most things she had taken for granted. The messages are given as direct instructions to her children in second or third person voices and riddles. The messages are just as random as they entered the authors thoughts. This is a light read for both the middle aged and young, who are questioning a few things in their worldview. Like the philosopher in the book of Ecclesiastes, the author grapples with certain life issues until she finally realizes that she cannot fix the world and she gives up control. The forty-five-year-old author starts off by writing a letter to her thirteen-year-old self and ends the book with her modified version of the Ten Commandments and a futuristic letter to her eighty-five-year-old self.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 3197 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2397 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Male Guitarists by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2149 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular Deaths from Pneumonia by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Monika Bednarek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441105271

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The Language of Fictional Television by Monika Bednarek Pdf

With cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television. The book illustrates how we can fruitfully and systematically analyse the language of television.

Author : Kathy Des Jardins
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781509251742

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Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way) by Kathy Des Jardins Pdf

A decade after leaving Louisiana amid a swirl of successes and sorrows, Joy Faye Savoy returns to the South. By her side is her scandalous best friend, never far from her mind is her unforgettable mother, and off in the Blue Ridge Mountains somewhere is the heartthrob from her past. While Joy’s life in California is filled to overflowing with hearth and home, she has come to Asheville, North Carolina, seeking private atonement during springtime in Appalachia. From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grand old hotel room to a long-ago love, she comes to understand in one last extraordinary day that the past plus the future, with some jelly beans sprinkled in, can add up to peace this side of paradise.

Author : Jaime Nicole
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781977270320

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Gaining My Freedom, Losing My Past by Jaime Nicole Pdf

This inspirational memoir chronicles the author’s spiritual path towards unshackling from past trauma. This book begins with the author sharing her childhood memories about her family life and learning survival skills from her oldest sister while trying to maneuver through a difficult childhood. The author shares how her childhood altered her life as she matured into adulthood. This book recounts her path towards salvation, forgiveness, redemption, and freedom through her Faith in God.