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Life Space Crisis Intervention is one of the best kept secrets in the field of working with troubled and troubling children and adolescents. Drs. Long and Wood offer the wisdom of many years of successful teaching and doing. This book provides the framework for the most effective training program available for professionals in social services, education, juvenile justice, and mental health. The book is best used as a supplement to a five-day certification training in Life Space Crisis Intervention. To learn more about this training contact the Life Space Crisis Intervention Institute @ 301-733-2751 or email GROWING EDGE Training Associates: gredge@netset.co

Wood and Long describe a time-tested technique for helping troubled and troubling children and youth who are in crisis in their homes, schools, and communities. Life Space Crisis Intervention is a refreshing alternative to traditional techniques and provides effective alternatives to punishment. The authors describe how to use LSCI to use crisis as an opportunity for insight and behavior change. The book is most effective in combination with the five-day training program available through the Institute of Psychoeducational Training in Hagerstown, MD. Information is available through fecser@pepcleve.com

Hayden Wood is the Jamie Oliver of cocktails. He writes in a very friendly and approacable manner with hints of humour and stories from his experience. This book explains the basics in detail so that anyone can make cocktails at home. He emphasizes the use of equipment that can be obtained easily if you don't already have it at home; and the drinks are focused mainly on using fresh ingredients that are cheap and readily available, rather than a whole shelf of ready-made liquers.

For the experienced bartender, this book is full of new and refreshing ideas with stunningly sexy pictures of the cocktails. I'd highly recommend it to anyone.

THE LIQUID KITCHEN: PARTY DRINKS joins a growing number of books covering mixed drinks; but what sets this part is its author, who has won Best Drinks Book in the World 2004 and other awards - and the innovative new drinks he's designed just for parties. Color photos and reflections on competitions, mixed drink winners and more accompany easy recipes any party cook will find appealing and different. From a Honey Nectarine Martini to a 'Solar' variation on a Bronx cocktail, THE LIQUID KITCHEN's recipes won't be in any other cocktail guide.

This is a delightful book about a delightful person and place, and I think most kids would love it. I also think most parents (and grandparents) would love the way it imparts not just information, but understanding, without being preachy or school-bookish at all. That it is also a coloring book makes it even more fun for the little ones and even a better buy for parents (and grandparents). I don't want to give away the story, but it gives children a fresh insight into the Christmas story, as only a doting grandfather could do it. Maybe the best thing is that it "transports" kids away from the cartoons and television commercials of the season, and back to the true meaning of the holiday. I keep coming back to the word "delightful" and I guess that is my review in a single word.

The Little House on Buchanan Street is a very sweet little book that crosses the ages; small children can color the pages while being read to, older children may get a good message about what Christmas really means by reading it and adults can enjoy the book and interact with the children in their life. I loved it!

I purchased 9 Little House of the Prairie books, they where in very good condition and arrived in my house in a very short period of time, I am very happy with my purchase.

This product came quickly (within the week) and in very good condition, look hardly used. I love the box set and have it set up in our guest bedroom, it is pretty. And, I have already read through half the books, they are exceptional. I would recommend both the seller and the Little House books (box set) to everyone! Thanks for all of your help! Shannon

In this second book in the series, Jay Sheridan shares with us many of his experiences working with Toni and Spirit and passes along many great truths, including free will. Through examples he cites in his book, he very clearly shows us the meaning of free will and the consequences of our choices. We are given a better understanding of illness and healing.

Through Toni's example, Sheridan points out that we all have gifts from God that we are to use, develop, and then give back by serving others. Through Spirit we receive guidance and help is always available. We all have the truth, the solutions, the power within, and it is in living the answers that we come to have peace.

A wonderful book with powerful messages. Thank you Jay and Spirit for these priceless words of Wisdom from Spirit.

After reading "Living in Both Worlds: A Healer and Her Journey with Spirit, I couldn't wait to read this next book in the "Living in Both Worlds" series. For me it was wonderful reading how Spirit comes to help us in so many ways here on earth. I love the authors manner of conveying in such an easy way the wisdom that has changed his life so dramatically and how I could relate to so many things he spoke about. I found the healing examples very interesting as well. I love the way the healer, Toni Lynn Wood, related to each situation and this book taught me alot as to why some heal and some do not. Another terrific book for all people.

Sybil Rosen has written a journey to understanding her dead love, the poetic, troubled troubador, Blaze Foley. But in telling their story, when both were in their formative years as artists, she also tells her own blossoming into a writer of merit. Her journey delves into her paramour's legend, but also opens the reader to the power of art to heal a broken spirit. Ms. Rosen's strength is that she is able to use her memory of that flawed affair with clear writing and she emerges as a significant artist in her own right. This is a must read for any young woman artist who has ever struggled to rise from the shadow of a lover's passion to find her own voice.

Sybil Rosen lived with Blaze Foley in the seventies, during a time of transformation in both of their lives. He wrote his best-known song, the beautiful "If I Could Only Fly," for her. Her relationship with Blaze may have been, as she describes it, a "fleeting idyll" in the grand scheme of things, but as she looks back from the distance of years through the uncertain filter of memory, and through the light of Blaze's subsequent notoriety and stature, she finds deep, resonant meaning. And this journey into her personal past also illuminates overall the vibrant times of these southern hippies, artists and musicians living the underground life in the seventies, and takes us down some little-known backwaters of the Texas music scene, providing a depth and color missing from many accounts of this rich, creative milieu. And, on top of everything else, Sybil Rosen is a skilled writer of beautiful, moving prose. This book is not only a welcome addition to UNT Press' fine Lives of Musicians series, but also to the literature of Texas music and to the literature of the counterculture. [...]

"Living In The Woods In A Tree" by Sybil Rosen

The name Blaze Foley is spoken with the kind of certain reverence reserved for very few among many artists, guitar pickers, and folk and country music aficionados. Since his murder in 1989 he has been eternally elusive as a person and the landscape and music communities around both the country and world reverberate and are replete with anecdotal tales of his life, in all of its virtuoso beauty and heartbreaking squalor, which have since made him a legend in death despite the fact that he was a musical vagabond and unknown to the masses as an artist for most of his life.

Blaze's story is one of constant evolutions of the personae while polishing his art much the same as the mourners now polish his black granite gravestone. Blaze Foley was an expert guitar picker and songwriter who was known almost as much for his rampant eccentricities as he was for his soulful blues and heartfelt performances. Before Blaze Foley was a moniker he was Depty Dawg and before that Tex and before that Michael David Fuller.

Depty Dawg happened to be the version that Sybil Rosen encountered and fell in love with in the mid 1970s. He was already an accomplished musician and harmonist after having traveled with his itinerant family as a gospel group for the majority of his youth. He was soon to have a creative hemorrhage and bleed out beauty with both the pen and the guitar which Sybil was to witness firsthand during her time with him when he wrote many of the achingly ethereal and enduring songs of his cherished oeuvre. In fact, most of the early ones are either for her or about her. Merle Haggard, John Prine, and a hundred other musicians of high regard have covered Blaze's ballad "If I Could Only Fly" and that was written as an ode of an inevitable tortured parting of ways with Sybil Rosen, the author of this book.

This creative breakthrough occurred while; due to poverty, romanticism, and the counterculture nature of the times the two were, in fact, living in the woods in a tree in the boondocks of Georgia. It was an old shell of a house that was never finished due to the constructor's love of a woman being thwarted. He had no reason to finish the project. After having ingratiated themselves to the good graces of the proprietor of the property at that time they were allowed to live in their symbiotic isolation and further grow their bond as soul mates. The Depty created and kept improving and it wasn't long until the only step left for him to take was the trial by fire rite of musical passage of playing his own songs live. He started playing little gigs in Georgia and as their love grew it wasn't too long before his talent was clearly of the caliber to take him elsewhere. It was now time to invent Blaze Foley.

Blaze wrote, sang, and played his drunken heart out in New York, Chicago, Georgia, Muscle Shoals, Alabama and, most famously and infamously in Austin and Houston, Texas. Texas was where Blaze would become a legend. Blaze never held a job due to his own version of artistic integrity and this, in small part, is what led to his and Sybil's parting in Chicago. Sybil went her way and Blaze went his.

Sybil Rosen had been inspired by Blaze and by a professor for whom she was a nanny to stretch her own creative wings. She began with short poems and quickly found her own literary way. She was on her own and with new loves and prodigiously producing manuscripts for plays and children's books after a short time. She even wrote for daytime soap operas but just for the check. Still, the lightning in her creative mind had struck. She gained more and more strength as a person with each success and with the help from her counselor who helped her to confront an identity problem in which she had always struggled to define herself. She shared that neurosis with Blaze but he confronted it by creating new selves. She had simply felt like a Jewish girl "Without a face."

The world then spun at a different angle and dropped a meteor on Sybil's perception. She received a phone call in 1989 to inform her that Blaze Foley was dead. The exact circumstances were unknown when she received the call except that he had been shot in Austin and it had been fatal. It had been nearly 10 years since she had seen Blaze and in going on with her life she had seldom thought about him although she kept reminders of her time in the woods with him on display wherever she lived. Also, she had saved her letters from him and a lock of his ponytail along with his 45 of "If I Could Only Fly" among her discarded drafts of her own plays from the same time period. She hadn't bothered to look at any of these in years but the idyllic time in the woods and their parting would soon come to haunt her in a regretful yet nostalgic way. Regretful in that she felt guilty about not thinking of her first true love in years and nostalgic to the tune of the wind in the trees and the memory of Blaze first playing the beautiful songs that he'd written for her in their Thoreau-like seclusion.

Many different winds began to blow chillingly and warmly of new revelations that were soon to adorn and ornament Sybil's perceptions and memories of who Blaze was by revealing who he had became in the years following his departure from her life. He had resumed his nomadic ways and kept playing and singing ceaselessly. He had kept his sensitive side intact but revealed little of himself outside his music. He had also become a legendary drunk who wore his politics and internal issues as belligerence toward other people. That notwithstanding, he also had an extremely devoted flock of admirers which was what kept him in bed and board most of the time. Everywhere she turned Sybil was finding out new stories about him posthumously from his Austin contingent and, in turn, she was able to innumerate the intimacies and qualities of the Depty Dawg she had known, loved, and lived with for those years in the 70s. For both sides these revelations were a shock and welcome elaboration on a life that was very compartmentalized. Blaze was many different things to many different people but above all, he was a master musician, songwriter, and guitar player.

It was certainly news to Sybil that Blaze had become a legend in his own time. The manner in which he was murdered (defending an elderly black friend) had duct taped the legitimacy of his legend forever as The Duct Tape Messiah. He was thusly named for his penchant for using duct tape on everything. Now Sybil was finally able to hear recorded songs that he had written while with and without her presence. She was left grasping and wondering about her personal influence and contribution to it all. She was left to wonder if she was Blaze's one true love and he was hers. His lyrics left the roadmap of a heart savagely traveled and abused, by self and others, and now she was to gas up the engine in her fertile mind to try to decipher it all.

There are throngs of new Blaze fans every year. There is a festival dedicated to him in Austin. The multitudes are now hearing what wasn't available for years. And his legend grows like jasmine.

Ms. Rosen has written one of the most compelling books that I have ever read and I read voraciously. Even if I didn't know every Blaze lyric I would have been enthralled. She seamlessly weaves the past and present through her narrative with such skill that it's never clunky or out of place exposition. Her analogies and timeless resonance with words had me reading individual sentences over again. I read the book twice in a row. Ms. Rosen's autobiographical segments are every bit as engrossing as her dialogue with Blaze, Marsha, Gurf and all of the unique people she talked to. Everyone had something to offer. This gem was also exquisitely edited and I can't over emphasize the gift of prose that churns through this book like one of their observed leaves effortlessly spinning toward the ground from the tree house of long ago.

"Stars burn out. Legends last forever."-Blaze Foley

Kevin W. Mattingly© 9-21-2008 Harrisburg Times

Amazon, Marsha Weldon and Sybil Rosen have my expressed written consent to use any of the content of my review as they so choose.

This book is A+. We love it. So many details and so beautiful. Worth every penny.

From the ever-changing chameleon to the flower-like mantis, the bright stripes of the corn snake to the dramatic display of a jungle bird, you can glimpse the dazzling world of some of this Earth's most fascinating creatures. I like looking at the Comics section of newspapers to find that pair of drawings depicting the same scene. We are told there are differences between the two. LOOK AGAIN! is a book with a similar idea, only it has gloriously colored artwork of humming birds & anteaters; snow tigers & peacocks. Wolves & sea gulls; caribou & seals. Tadpoles & salmon; kingfishers & ducks. Giraffe & lynx; cheetah & meerkats. Fang tooth fish & comb jelly to name a few - what a grand feast for the eyes! ..................

I THOUGHT THAT SHE GOT INTO REALISM AND HEART WITH THIS BOOK AND REALLY WROTE ABOUT IT IT WAS ALMOST LIKE SHE LIVED THESE FEELINGS HER SELF I REALLY LOVE HER WRITING AND POETRY SHE MADE ME FEEL THOSE THOUGHTS And feelings i love this writer!!!!!!

although all anne's work has moved me to contemplation (and often tears), love poems has been the most gorgeously presented and emotionally draining collection of poetry any author i have before seen published. i challenge all readers to find a more beautiful reflection of inferior self-perception than in 'for my lover, returning to his wife.' anne's poetry is as once angelic and crude, inspiring a kinship between herself and the reader -- the true mark of a gifted writer.

Jim has written a fine book that will give any one reading it a sense of what war means to each that answer the call to Duty, it is a call that will last a lifetime! I salute Jim for having given his time again for us to learn about a world we are ignorant of. This book brings up front and center the effects of war on the ones we Love. Thank you Jim.

Jimmie Joe's book of stories and poems is a must read for anyone who has friends or family that have gone to war. A very moving experience as told through the eyes of someone who was there. I feel that reading these stories helps me to better understand PTSD and the nightmares of war. I have not finished but will continue to read some as I can, it's hard to see through the tears. Welcome Home Jimmie!!

A necessity for a resident interested in Peds Ortho. Full of information -- clearly written, easily read and absorbed.

This is the classic orthopaedic pediatric text, with updates to reflect the latest advances. It's very easy to read and would be extremely helpful for a junior or senior resident on an orthopaedic pediatric rotation.