Essays Life

Life Lessons: Ruminations on Life of a Human on Earth, Essays by Mary A Faderan, PhD is a collection of essays on her musings about life in the world as we know it. Her life has taken many turns, starting from her research work at Yale School of Medicine, postdoctorate studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and then at Purdue University.

Just because you’re a grown adult doesn’t mean you have to give up being silly. These silly journal prompts will help you to have fun with your daily journaling. Express your creativity, explore the silly side of life, and laugh out loud while your write answers to these 30 silly prompts. You’ll relive childhood memories, make up jokes, invent new words, imagine what life might be like in a new city (or planet), and create a personality for yourself as a fairy (or leprechaun or unicorn). These prompts are intended for adults but are fun enough that you can share them with your ...

From childhood to retirement, the author reflects on a life through the lens of faith and, at times, doubt, focusing on life and death and the joys in between. From the Introduction: “What follows are reflections on the past, on life experiences, on faith, and on death. I’d like to think that, despite different pasts, different personalities, much of what we learn, and experience is universal. The following essays mirror my experience and what I think is the human experience. "In his poem, The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot wrote, “These fragments I have shored against my ruin.” These words...

73 simple, yet profound sayings and keys of enlightenment, and applicable wisdom principles for the Journey to Becoming and Spiritual Realization. Spiritual Evolution resonating in "everyday language" for the visionary heart. A wonderful companion to Undrai Fizer's best selling "The Excuse-less Life" book. Fizer takes simple language and "isms" to create a beautiful path of "spiritual reminders and principles" as it relates to Life and Spirituality. An "easy, yet thought provoking" collection of thoughts and inner-conversations" for the reader.

Figuring out who you want to be in life is never easy. In High Points and Lows, Austin Carty traces his own stumbling journey toward adulthood and true faith, drawing on lessons from pop culture and Christianity. In these funny and moving essays that address questions on faith, goals, and vocation, Carty offers an uplifting message for religious and secular audiences alike.

In the powerful and daring essays in Constellations Sinéad Gleeson does that very thing. All of life is within this audiobook, from birth to first love, pregnancy to motherhood, terrifying sickness, old age and loss to death itself. Throughout this wide-ranging collection she also turns her restless eye outwards delving into work, art and our very ways of seeing. In the tradition of some of our finest life writers, and yet still in her own spirited, generous voice, Sinéad takes us on a journey that is both uniquely personal and yet universal in its resonance.

Having a conversation with your dog may seem like a fulfilling experience. You initiate the topic, present your arguments, and eventually win the debate, right? However, it's not always so straightforward. It largely depends on your dog's personality, and one thing you should never underestimate is your furry friend's stubbornness.

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE: Produces an increasing surplus of energy and opportunity, more particularly under modern conditions of scientific organisation and power production; and this through the operation of rent and of usury tends to.

Charles Dickens was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A FLY-LEAF IN A LIFE: Once upon a time (no matter when), I was engaged in a pursuit (no matter what), which could be transacted by myself alone; in which I could have no help; which imposed a constant strain on the attention, memory, observation, and physical powers.

世の中は騒々しく、人々が浮き足立つ時代になってきた。そんなやかましい時代を、静かに生きるにはどうすればいいのか？ 人生を幸せに生きるとはどういうことか？

世界的スニーカーショップ「atmos（アトモス）」創業社長、初の著書！

The simple title says it all, but Essays of a Savior is a book about the real or the true meaning of royal salvation. And royal salvation has to do in truth with royal life and royal life or royal salvation in truth has to do with royal or true joy. Salvation has nothing to do in truth with blood sacrifice or with death, because he who comes to die thus he has lost in truth royal salvation. Royal salvation has to do in truth with requesting royal life or with requesting royal salvation.

Discover Hope, Healing, and Humanity in Every Page In a world shaken by pandemics, climate change, political division, and personal struggles, it’s easy to feel disconnected and overwhelmed. But bestselling author David Dye’s Tomorrow Together: Essays of Hope, Healing, and Humanity offers a much-needed antidote a collection of short, powerful essays that remind us of the beauty, strength, and resilience that connect us all. With warmth, vulnerability, and a touch of humor, Dye takes readers on a journey through the joys and challenges of modern life, exploring themes of personal growth,...

In her journey to share these selected essays, Vivian A. Velasco has lived a life filled with possibilities. In these personal writings, her deepest thoughts come to the forefront to help others in trying times of need. As a cancer survivor, loss of twin boys and her sons unexpected passing during the writing of this book, Vivian hopes to help others on their paths through life by sharing her own.

Public school is a daunting, tedious, occasionally bloody experience shared by millions of students, current and former. Classroom fights, incompetent teachers, sex in bathrooms, rigid social castes - it's shocking most of us graduated able to read. Take Out Your Earrings Before You Fight takes a dry, witty look at all the things you learn - and everything you don't - while slogging through the K-12 system.

Following his much-admired Books that Saved My Life, McGirr now shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of 20-plus eminent thinkers across history. It is animated by two related questions: from where do we draw a sense of life’s purpose? And how can philosophy make life better? It ranges widely across subjects - from solitude to community, language to order, experience to ecstasy, the idea of good to that of a good idea.

Laura Lippman's first job in journalism was a rookie reporter in Waco, Texas. Two decades later she left her first husband, quit the newspaper business and became a full-time novelist. Her fiction has always centred on complicated women, paying unique attention to the intricacies of their flaws, their vulnerability and their empowerment. Now, finally, Lippman has turned her gimlet eye on a new subject: herself.

Embracing the possibilities and impossibilities of language, Kim rejoices in the similes of Korean, her mother tongue, and draws inspiration from K-dramas and writers across cultures who sustain her. As borders close in and nations enter lockdown, the journey that Kim traces is fraught-and at once illuminates that the act of remaining present has its own power, allowing boundless hope.

Una recopilación conmovedora de los textos periodísticos que van dando cuenta de una vida. El feminismo, el amor, la vejez, los hijos, la salud y la enfermedad. Crónicas tan universales que se sienten como propias.

Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt offers something new in this poignant, hilarious, and sometimes outrageous collection of stories drawn from her own life.