Fish falling from the sky. Hail the size of grapefruits. These are not your ordinary weather events. Get ready to learn about some of the world’s strangest weather.

The story of A Christmas Carol comes to us through movies such as Disney's A Christmas Carol. However, movies skip parts of the original story. Scrooge, American Style contains the complete Charles Dickens storyline with all the characters. This new story was written using suggestions from Stephen King's storytelling book, On Writing. I also used the writing style outlined in The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. E.B.White wrote Charlotte's Web, an ...

Mike and his son Bret were abandoned by Barb—their wife and mother. After a battle with depression she had moved back East to her parents. Now, during evenings at home, Bret plays online computer games, Mike plays online social games. The game gets serious when Mike spies Barb, who is his Facebook Friend, playing golf with their common Friend, Steve. She certainly has got over her depression quickly. Feeling lonely, Mike secretly finds an internet girlfriend on a dating site. He ...

Journeys is a collection of essays, poems, and stories of adventures through time, space, fact, and fiction. The writers are members of the Peninsula Writers Bloc. The Bloc was founded to create a space for writers in the San Francisco Bay Area to share their work and encourage each other. Journeys begin with genetically special teenage Time Travelers watching the creation of human art. Next, is a memoir by an American Air Force Officer's daughter during her family's new life in ...

Simon the sloth loves to hug. He hugs plants. He hugs rocks. He hugs his friends. He even hugs himself! So when his best friend, Elsa the jaguar, and others around him start saying no to his hugs, he is crushed. Why wouldn't someone want to be hugged? After being rejected several times, he learns that both he and his friends need to want a hug at the same time so they both feel comfortable.This lighthearted story about a lovable, huggable sloth is a gentle introduction to the impor...

From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator David Litchfield, Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth is a nonfiction picture book about the Earth, told from the perspective of Earth herself.Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help ...

From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator David Litchfield, Ocean! Waves for All is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the ocean, told from the perspective of the ocean itself.Dude. Ocean is incredible. Atlantic, Pacific, Artic, Indian, Southern—it's all excellent Ocean! Not part of any nation, his waves are for all. And under those waves, man, he holds so many secrets. With characteristic humor and charm, ...

Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth is a nonfiction audiobook about the Earth, told from the perspective of Earth herself.Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Ear...

From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator David Litchfield, Ocean! Waves for All is a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the formation and history of the ocean, told from the perspective of the ocean itself.Dude. Ocean is incredible. Atlantic, Pacific, Artic, Indian, Southern—it's all excellent Ocean! Not part of any nation, his waves are for all. And under those waves, man, he holds so many secrets. With characteristic humor and charm, Sta...

What if a steadier, calmer mind had nothing to do with changing your circumstances — and everything to do with how you meet them?You read the quotes and nod along to the wisdom. Then the insult lands, the plan falls apart, or the day blurs into the same routine — and every bit of hard-won calm evaporates. Knowing what a Stoic would do is not the same as doing it when it counts.The problem was never good intentions. It's that nobody handed you the practice...

What if the chaos around you lost its power to disturb the calm inside you?Life keeps coming at you faster than you can handle: deadlines, bad news, other people's moods, things you can't control. You spend your energy reacting and worrying, and somewhere in the noise the deeper meaning of your days slips away.You suspect there's a calmer, steadier way to live. You just haven't been shown how to find it without abandoning the real world you live in.

What if you could stop losing your days to worry about a past you can't change and a future that may never come?Your mind runs endless loops: replaying what already happened, rehearsing what might go wrong, rarely resting in the moment you're actually living. The result is a low, constant hum of anxiety that follows you from morning to night.You have read that Stoicism can help, but most of what you find is dense theory that never quite tells you what to ...