Living On The Cusp A Memoire

Author : David A. Marshall
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460216962
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living on the Cusp - A Memoire written by David A. Marshall and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living on the Cusp is an autobiography regarding a colorful life, filled with failures and missed opportunities, but with final success. I, through my life, enjoyed a multitude of various experiences starting by being raised on a large ranch and farming operation with influences from my dramatic parents and older achieving siblings providing a competitive effect while keeping me on a path towards achievements. My perceptions of life have been shaped by being born into the Great Depression, experiencing the events of World War II, being drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War, playing my saxophone professionally, being involved in the colorful entertainment industry, working as a professional photographer, and my many business ventures for good or for bad. After my many varied and colorful female relationships I found my loving mate Dorothy, which added to building my success through our thirty-eight years of challenges. My life truly has been that of living on the narrow edge, the cusp, of life while facing the challenges, trauma, and positive events leading to success at the top of my own small, but secure, peak.

Author : D. R. Fredi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733030823
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By the Cusp of the Moon: Finding Hope and Healing Beyond Suicide written by D. R. Fredi and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published by Rachel K. Roberts (pen name). The Cusp of the Moon is a wife's raw memoir about the last three years of her marriage to a man battling depression and an all-consuming desire to take his life. D. R. Fredi shares her experiences with nuance, compassion and understanding. She struggles with the exhaustion of caregiving, deals with the frustration of inadequate mental health resources (for patients and caregivers), and faces the stigmas ingrained in America's bible belt. This is a book about love and loss. It is about creating human connections and drawing boundaries. It is about the journey to becoming whole after tragedy. More than that, this book creates a sense that those who struggle with the idea of suicide or who have loved ones who do, aren't alone. This book is a timely reminder about the preciousness of human life and will assist the general population and policy makers in better understanding the obstacles we have in front of us to prevent further loss of human life. Finally, and possibly most importantly, this book provides a window into the world of suicide for practitioners across the nation who find difficulty in treating this population.

Author : Boyd Lemon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781480211490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retirement written by Boyd Lemon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boyd Lemon shows you how he secured the best time of his life in Retirement and how you can do it too. Learn how to take life more slowly, notice and revel in the beauty of the world around you, most important, how to find and pursue your passion and live fully. Married or single, discover how to avoid the loneliness or episodic depression that many retirees suffer from. Too much leisure time is often an expressway to boredom, frustration and unhappiness. The author tells you how to avoid this unhappiness through a few steps that anyone can take. This Second Edition includes substantial new material based on new interviews, research and the author's personal experiences: new chapters or sections on nutrition, preparing for the death of a spouse or partner, buying versus renting a home, building a retirement home and setting aside time to do nothing. The author has expanded substantially the chapters on Dealing with Loneliness, The Importance of Place, Controlling the Mind, Meditation, Learning and Growing, Spirituality, Adult Children, Friends and Establishing a Structure. What Reviewers Said About the 1st Edition"...thought-provoking tips.""...reveals the ways we can all find meaning and joy in our golden years. This unique use of memoir makes the book a much more interesting read than the common guide.""...so much helpful information on having a fulfilling life after finishing work.""... amazing the insights in the book...." "One of the best books on this evolving and elusive destination! You will enjoy Boyd's engaging style, and learn from his experiences.""I loved this book. Mr. Lemon is a wonderful author and shares his experiences in a very thoughtful and thorough way. I hope he follows this work up with another book detailing additional retirement and life experiences. BTW - My father loved the book too!""Lemon gives very practical advice to his readers on many subjects.""I found every page to be filled with inspiration and guidance.""I found Boyd's book both thought provoking and freeing."

Author : Prince
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 039958966X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Ones written by Prince and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words—featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death NAMED ONE OF THE BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE GUARDIAN • NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of “Uptown” to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of “Paisley Park.” But his most ambitious creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, one of the greatest pop stars of any era. The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince—a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death, pages that bring us into his childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us through Prince’s early years as a musician, before his first album was released, via an evocative scrapbook of writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince’s evolution through candid images that go up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book’s fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain—the final stage in Prince’s self-creation, where he retells the autobiography of the first three parts as a heroic journey. The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his profound collaboration with Prince in his final months—a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he’d so carefully cultivated—and annotations that provide context to the book’s images. This work is not just a tribute to an icon, but an original and energizing literary work in its own right, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image—his undying gift to the world.

Author : Christopher Higgs
Publisher : Civil Coping Mechanisms
ISBN 13 : 9781937865801
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AS I STAND LIVING written by Christopher Higgs and published by Civil Coping Mechanisms. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his radical memoir, As I Stand Living, Christopher Higgs uses the constraint based techniques William Faulkner employed for the construction of As I Lay Dying to create a deeply personal and philosophical portrait of the year he became a father. Blending elements of fantasy and confession, Higgs confronts parenthood by divulging his most intimate fears, secrets, sorrows, and hopes as a writer, husband, and teacher. A methodically composed and paradoxical blend of inextricably vulnerable emotion and objective fascination, As I Stand Living renders visible the tension between mediation and transparency when attempting to represent, capture, and convey a lived experience on the cusp of its future.

Author : Andy Summers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429909293
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Train Later written by Andy Summers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The train jerks to a halt, and as I get out at Oxford Circus, Stewart gets out with me. We look at each other, laugh, and make the standard remark about it being a small world. But this is the brilliant collision, one train later and it might all have turned out differently." In this extraordinary memoir, world-renowned guitarist Andy Summers provides a revealing and passionate account of a life dedicated to music. From his first guitar at age thirteen and his early days on the English music scene to the ascendancy of his band, the Police, Summers recounts his relationships and encounters with the Big Roll Band, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, the Animals, John Belushi, and others, all the while proving himself a master of telling detail and dramatic anecdote. But, of course, the early work is only part of the story, and Andy's account of his role as guitarist for the Police---a gig that was only confirmed by a chance encounter with drummer Stewart Copeland on a London train---has been long-awaited by music fans worldwide. The heights of fame that the Police achieved have rarely been duplicated, and the band's triumphs were rivaled only by the personal chaos that such success brought about, an insight never lost on Summers in the telling. Complete with never-before-published photos from Summers's personal collection, One Train Later is a constantly surprising and poignant memoir, and the work of a world-class musician and a first-class writer.

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : Stephanie Wittels Wachs
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492664111
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful written by Stephanie Wittels Wachs and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The space between life and death is a moment. But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments. One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever.. Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work on shows like Parks and Recreation, had died of a heroin overdose. How do you make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance? In beautiful, unsentimental, and surprisingly funny prose, Stephanie Wittels Wachs alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, which she learned about three days before her wedding, and the first year after his death, in all its emotional devastation. This compelling portrait of a comedic genius and a profound exploration of the love between siblings is A Year of Magical Thinking for a new generation of readers. A heartbreaking but hopeful memoir of addiction, grief, and family, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful will make you laugh, cry, and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit animal.

Author : Joanna Rakoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307958019
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Salinger Year written by Joanna Rakoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office—where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches—and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

Author : Matt Rothschild
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307405427
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dumbfounded written by Matt Rothschild and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only Jewish family in a luxury Fifth Avenue building of WASPs, the senior Rothschilds took over the responsibility of raising their grandson, Matt, after his mother left him for Italy and a fourth husband.