This pamphlet, by Carl Rogers who developed what he called client-centered therapy, briefly lays out a pathway of life that values self-awareness and acceptance, being the self one truly is, an authenticity that can be the basis of creativity. He observes that this is the life-goal that people find as they participate in therapy that frees up their choices. While this may by now be familiar to many, it is a concise and clear statement that could be helpful to others. Our culture still impo...

How could he even survive, Sand Hargrove asked himself, when his longtime partner, Lafay, was moving a thousand miles away, from Iowa to Louisiana, with their three-year-old son, Joby? Still aching from his little girl's crib death five years before, Sand was constantly fearful that something equally terrible might harm his beloved son. When they're gone, Sand tries to distract himself by seeking love or sympathy from Rainy Mountain Cohen — a sexy, famous, wildly experienced author and art...

Stories about fathers and sons — a young man feeling oppressed or suppressed by his loud, confident father, the love he feels for his own little boy, the uncertainty he feels about his relationship with the boy's mother. Stories about relations between sexes and between exes — sorrows, regrets, and occasional revelations and surprises. Stories about love, teasing, and other interpersonal dynamics in a family of five children, and one about an old man's surprising hatred for his adopted sis...

On her first day of school, Ellie the Elephant’s excitement turns to confusion when things don’t go as planned. But with Henry the Hare’s help, she learns that sharing can turn trouble into friendship. "Ellie’s First Day of School is a gentle, illustrated tale of kindness and the magic of giving."

This children's book of multiple Bible stories and vibrant colors gives light to the Bible in a way children can understand and get excited to learn more about the Bible and Jesus.

I don’t know what’s going on / But I know that something’s wrong.Moving between word and image, the call-and-response collaboration between writer Christopher R. Rogers and photographer Karim Brown improvises a contemporary portrait of present-day Black Philadelphia, replete with the unfinished activism present since the transnational upsurge of the George Floyd Uprising.And I know that lately / My city has been crazy.Arriving five years after the ...

There are many approaches that assist us through the gift and challenge of life.“The Artfully Lived Life” is a unique, transformational, creative, and innovative approach to celebrating and integrating “the masterpiece” of our inherent integrity, wholeness, and goodness. It is a systematically comprehensive approach to a) becoming intimately acquainted with the various dimensions of ourselves and b) unlocking and living the innate, often hidden core values and talents with...

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution—natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow—but say little about the evidence that evolution happens at all. How do we know that species change? Has there really been enough time for evolution to operate?With The Evidence for Evolution, Alan R. Rogers provid...

Closing in on eight decades of life gives one dramatic pause, a time for a deep breath then a long exhale, realizing how little time is left but grabbing a chance to reflect on all that has gone before; a time when one can stop, listen, take a step back and look around. Following his first book of free verse poetry on the thematic process of growing old, Starts And Stops Along The Way, this new book, Looking Around, is a collection of personal views that lament the injustices, disappointme...

Rogers' enlightening essays, compiled over 20 years of working with families, do not tell us how to do parenting; they show us how to be a parent. You will quickly realize his work is no-holds-barred information, heart-felt messages about our roles and relationships. His refreshing approach is devoid of blaming or finger pointing. He believes that parents have an instinctive desire to gain knowledge because it helps us to be better moms or dads. As a nationally certified CFLE, a parenting ...

Whether it is the increased traffic of a game weekend or the issues involved with adding over seventy thousand students to the population of the area annually, life in a college town like College Station, Texas, can present a variety of challenges.Follow the cases and issues raised in this book as they play out in the Brazos Valley.

Coach Bill Hurst has been the Head Football Coach at Centreville Academy for over 50 years. He is the winningest high school coach in Mississippi history.It has been said, “A legacy is not what you leave behind, but the people you touch along the way.” Coach Hurst has touched thousands of lives over the years.This book is a collection of memories, photos, and stories from former players and students.