Benbrook Public Library

"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--

When Liza and Jeremy run to their mother during a scary storm, she comforts them by telling them about the Invisible String, which connects people who love each other no matter where they are and means that they are never alone.

Everybody can enjoy my book Muse. It is a poetry of falling in love, romance, and happiness. Each poems can relate to our everyday feelings of fear, anger, loneliness, parenthood, intimacy, family, and friends. The poems can help us find a way to this big challenging world. Included in this poetry book are also poems on faith, religion, and hope.

We are creatures of habit; therefore, it is difficult to claim we have healthy emotions when our behaviors tell the real truth. I used to put the blame on other people until the mirror reflected no one but me. Everybody's pain is unique because we all process what we feel differently. Two people can encounter the same situation, but the impact on each individual makes them feel something different. When La Cherie became determined to find her way...

No more "checking for feet." This illuminating guide gets people to tell the truth at the meeting--not in the bathroom afterwards. Almost everybody does it--lie, that is. In one recent survey 93% of people admitted to lying regularly at work! Why? Because it's safer than telling the truth. Sadly, organizations cannot succeed in this poisonous world of half-truths, strategic omissions, and doctored information. To function optimally, businesses must...

Susan Schorn led an anxious life. For no clear reason, she had become progressively paralyzed by fear. Fed up with feeling powerless, she took up karate. She learned how to say no and how to fight when you have to (even in the dark). Karate taught her how to persuade her husband to wear a helmet, best one bossy Girl Scout troop leader, and set boundaries with an over-sharing boss. Here this double black belt recounts a fighting, biting, laughing...

Caught off guard, surprised by their own reactions, emotions bubble up that women fight to smother. Where did that come from? What can I do with this feeling that won't go away? Why do I feel and act this way? Counselor Marilyn Meberg has been there too. When she got pregnant, she got scared. When her baby girl died, she got angry. When her husband died, she battled loneliness and sorrow. In between the peaks and valleys, Marilyn began to see a pattern...

I grew up in the forties and fifties, when the news was local. We didn't know much about what was going on outside our town for two or three days. There was no multimedia, and today's front-page news was on page 20, the next day. But when, a man beat his wife or if the wife beat her husband, it was the talk of the town; everybody knew it. It has always, been considered a disgrace for a man to beat a woman. The shame abusing your wife or girlfriend...

You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of tension, heaviness, anxiety, and peanut shells. Something is very wrong with your team. Everybody knows it, but nobody is talking about it. It's obvious there's an elephant in the room. Is it an Avoidephant, feeding off the fears of retaliation and exclusion? Perhaps it's a Blamephant-whom we love to feed because it makes us feel better about...