![]() ![]() The love, care, and attention he had showed me up until that point slowly and increasingly withered away as he was swallowed up by the addiction that had plagued him all his adult life, except for the several years he achieved abstinence when I was born.Īt 16 years old, my dad, aged 49, died. My life before his demise into self-sabotage, self-loathing, shame, and addiction was characterised by love, stability, and innocence.Įvents following my dad’s relapse would change that. My dad relapsed and began using drugs and drinking alcohol when I was 8 or 9 years old. However, that isn’t to say that his drug use didn’t affect me. It was simply what my dad did and I didn’t have a judgement about it. ![]() Despite this, I didn’t explicitly understand the morality or legality of it. ![]() Growing up with my dad, I witnessed my dad purchase, prepare, and consume drugs. ![]() He spent the second half of my childhood misusing Alcohol, Cannabis, Heroin, Methadone, Valium, and Diazepam. This was an entry from my dad’s journal, written at some point during my childhood. ‘Woke up feeling very scared, was very emotional and anxious for over one hour, then I remembered I had a can of beer, drank that and it receded my fears long enough to get to the chemist to pick up Valium’. By Richard Devine, Social Worker and Bath and North East Somerset Council ![]()
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![]() When the recently orphaned socialite Flora Poste descends on her relatives at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm in deepest Sussex, she finds a singularly miserable group in dire need of her particular talent: organization.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Lawrence's and Thomas Hardy's earthy, melodramatic novels. The deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is "very probably the funniest book ever written" ( The Sunday Times, London), a hilarious parody of D. "Quite simply one of the funniest satirical novels of the last century." -Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition
![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, to some critics, Baldwin (or, alternatively, his characters) comes to terms with his identity, and this self-acceptance and self-knowledge lead him (or his characters) to a fuller and more mature development as an artist the achieved transcendence and clarity then shed the obstructing specificities of sexuality and “race” in the blinding splendor of a universalized artistic insight. Such a reading allows “race” and sexuality to disappear from critical view more precisely, it allows critics to cast them as mere obstructions littering the path of a surpassing transcendence, usually cast in terms of art. This transcendence relies on the transparency of revelation in the text and the assertion of this transparency’s liberatory potential, regardless of whether or not such liberation is a term of approbation. Whether in terms homophobic or racist, or anti-homophobic or anti-racist (rarely, though more often with the former than with the latter, do the poles of either of these oppositions come together), critics have dwelt on a transcendence defined as a coming to terms with one’s identity. ![]() (Virginia Woolf 39)Ĭritics of Another Country have been eager to see in the novel the promise of a transparent sexual utopia grounded in a healing unveiling of a serenely accepted identity. “I’m not the boy you want”: sexuality, “race,” and thwarted revolution in Baldwin’s ‘Another Country.’Īmong the tortures and devastations of life is this then – our friends are not able to finish their stories. ![]() ![]() But his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments'and Jack can't avoid them. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. ![]() Written as a series of free-verse poems from Jack's point of view, and with classic poetry included in the back matter, this novel is perfect for kids and teachers, too.Jack hates poetry. It's a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.Love That Dog shows how one boy named Jack finds his voice with the help of a teacher, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog. ![]() ![]() The Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, brings readers a story with enormous heart. This middle grade book is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But they all have a story to tell, something to say, and it all matters. OL5736973W Page_number_confidence 89.22 Pages 234 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299114784 Boys and girls love each other, or maybe nobody at all. ![]() Urn:lcp:realmofpossibili00levi:epub:54d5d6cd-5416-4851-acfe-b69b84b6b7c0 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier realmofpossibili00levi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6f21rp51 Invoice 11 Isbn 0375828451ĩ780375828454 Lccn 2003061917 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary O元691279M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:09:04 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1123921 Boxid_2 CH114801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() I was disappointed to find that it was easier to find cartoon videos starring frogs and bears than it was to find a little Black boy or girl stretching and jumping at the barre. I found many different videos to choose from – but not one was taught by, or even featured, a person of color. While they enjoyed checkout and some quiet reading time, I hopped onto YouTube to try to find a quick ballet class or example for students to try. After watching Misty perform, my students were curious about ballet and wanted to try it themselves. ![]() We had a fun conversation about how dancing is for everyone – boys and girls, big and small, skin of all colors – if they are willing to be patient and work hard.īut the class came with it’s challenges, too. The class moved their arms and pointed their toes as we watched a video compilation of Misty Copeland dancing different routines and shows. ![]() During one class’ readaloud, an excited kindergartener cried, “That ballerina has a ponytail and brown skin just like mine! I’m a ballerina too!” The book is beautiful and the class loved learning about Misty and her difficult path to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Company. Readers and I shared Misty Copeland’s picture book Firebird this week, illustrated by Christopher Myers. ![]() ![]() Connecting with the Long Range Desert Group gave them their own “Libyan Taxi Service” run by men who knew the desert as well as any Bedouin. During their first operation, they parachuted in, but after a disastrous failure, they looked for a better entry. Their initial setup included very little, so they just stole what they needed from a nearby New Zealand regiment away on maneuvers. ![]() Their founder, David Stirling, built a group of guerrillas who planned to get behind enemy lines for quick, effective attacks. They fought a new sort of war, one without rules, based on a concept of stealth and economy. As Macintyre clearly shows, the SAS fighters were rowdy, undisciplined, inspiring men who were more harnessed than controlled, and they were to function as a small, independent army inflicting damage out of all proportion to their size. In 1941, the war was not going well, especially in North Africa. The author makes engaging use of those archives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Times (London) writer at large Macintyre ( A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, 2014, etc.) was given full access to SAS archives and particularly the “War Diary,” an invaluable compilation of original documents gathered in 1946. An “authorized” but not “official” or “comprehensive” history of Britain’s swashbuckling Special Air Service. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() This advice holds true even with virtual meetings at work: I recently came up with and prepared a brainstorm activity for my team and now also make it a point to jot down pre-meeting talking points for every call I have, even if I already have a loose agenda in mind. It also helped me narrow down my choices: In deciding whether we went out to eat or cooked at the Airbnb, I chose cooking because it was an activity we could all do together and wouldn't require us all to drive back and forth to a restaurant.Īs a result, the weekend felt a lot more easygoing, and my friends separately told me how relaxed they felt the whole time. It meant I had to be decisive and communicative about what we were all doing together instead of hoping someone else would do it for me. And plan your next gathering when you have a specific, unique, disputable purpose that helps you make decisions about how the event should unfold. Knowing the true purpose of the trip helped me realize that I couldn't just be lax about this if the goal was to learn how to take charge more. ![]() ![]() ![]() To avoid wasting time driving to a restaurant and hang out at the house, I chose to have us all cook together and make a taco bar. ![]() ![]() ![]() and a mysterious substance called "ghost rock" fuels exotic steampunk inventions as well as plenty of bloodshed and flying bullets. ![]() Where the Great Quake of 1868 has shattered California into a labyrinth of sea-flooded caverns. Welcome to the Deadlands, where steely-eyed gunfighters rub shoulders with mad scientists and dark, unnatural forces. ![]() The first in a thrilling series of novels based on Deadlands, a hugely successful role-playing game set in the Weird, Weird West. The monster seems to target the lonely, the disenfranchised, the people who need memories to anchor them to this world. Some of those faces have begun to fade, too, destroying the very souls of the dead.Īll through the town of Pine Deep people are having their most precious memories stolen. He is a predator who hunts for killers, and the ghosts of all of those dead people haunt his life. Monk Addison is a private investigator whose skin is covered with the tattooed faces of murder victims. The awareness of that loss is tearing her apart. All she’s left with is the certain knowledge she has forgotten her lost child. ![]() Day by day it begins to fade, taking with it all of Patty’s memories of her daughter. Tattoo-artist Patty Cakes has her dead daughter’s face tattooed on the back of her hand. From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a standalone supernatural thriller Ink, about a memory thief who feeds on the most precious of dreams. ![]() |