"Dancing on the Ceiling of My Existential Kitchen" is Nathan's 2nd collection of poetry & random writings, mostly encompassing the period between 2005-2009 when Nathan left Los Angeles for Boston & New York City, eventually settling in Austin, Texas.In addition to poetry inspired by Nathan's first weeks & months in Austin, Dancing on the Ceiling of My Existential Kitchen includes anecdotes about busking in Brooklyn (Cop Utopia), visions of an oversexed,...

A caballo entre la sentencia epigramática, el ensayo breve, el minicuento y el aforismo, los textos que conforman este libro abordan las más disímiles materias de la cotidianidad desde una perspectiva que precipita hondas y sagaces reflexiones sobre el país y sus intelectuales, pero también –y he aquí su resonancia– sobre el mundo, los libros, la cultura popular, esas preciadas cosas de la vida que suelen pasar desapercibidas al ojo ablandado...

A woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered. my mother, my madness is Colleen Higgs’s diary of her mother’s last ten years. It is at once funny, harrowing, mundane, chaotic, and full of...

A deeply personal, behind-the-scenes exploration of Alex Miller's six-decade writing life. A Kind of Confession is a secret look into Alex Miller's writing life, spanning sixty years of creativity and inspiration. As a young man in 1961 Miller left his work as a ringer in Queensland and set out to achieve his dream of becoming a serious novelist. It was not until 1988 that his first novel, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain, was published. Twelve...

This story describes a short period of my life when I left behind my husband and family to take up an assignment with the New Zealand Volunteer Service Abroad. This organisation employed me to work in Zimbabwe from 2002 to 2004, a difficult time in that countrys history. For me, it was a life-changing experience that a decade later I feel compelled to share. I have used the diaries I kept during my time there and also drawings to convey the lasting...

... este año, como el anterior y el anterior, vuelve a salir este libro que recoge algunas de las mejores crónicas y algunos de los mejores perfiles publicados en El Tiempo desde enero hasta hoy. Con él se le hace justicia a uno de los fines esenciales de todo periódico que no es solo el de informar sino también, y sobre todo, el de enriquecer la información con el análisis y el pensamiento, con las historias que hacen posible la comprensión...

An American writer joins her husband, a contractor/consultant working in Iraq, to live in Amman, Jordan, and keeps a diary of day-to-day events. Out of this emerge so many stories of the pain and frustration of a forgotten world dating from a half-century earlier-the Palestinians who fled Israel in the '48 and '67 wars. In both cases - whether the Iraqi war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - she finds herself squarely within the enemy camp and...

Issues of the Heart is a collection of topics that we face through-out life. It is designed to present issue monthly and daily reflections related to the issue. This reflection journal act as a user guide to process where you are and ignite your desire to change to develop into the person you would like to become. Issues of the Heart is a collection of powerful reflection activities to guide you on your journey toward self-awareness.

« Le 2 septembre 1893, le paquebot La Champagne jetait l'ancre dans la baie de New York. » Ainsi commence le journal tenu par Amédée Girard, un émigré « ordinaire » et anonyme comme des millions d'autres exilés en Amérique à la fin du xixe siècle. De New York à Montréal, o il se fixe dès son arrivée, l'auteur note les observations et les impressions que lui inspire son nouveau lieu de vie. Villageois jurassien contraint à un voyage...

Always Stay True is a true journey through a relatively sexist work environment that favored a predominantly male presence. It defined me as a woman of strength, at times a woman of weaknesses, but overall a woman who came out on the other side a better version of myself in my working capacity. There has been no greater journey and no greater reward. Navigating disparity was an ultimate challenge to which sometimes I wanted to give in. Quit fighting...