![]() ![]() ![]() They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success not to substitute words for actions, nor to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge…the code which these words represent embraces the highest moral laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong… The focus of General MacArthur’s presentation was the hallmark of the West Point ethos: Duty, Honor, Country. Here is an excerpt of his remarks:ĭuty-Honor-Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points…they make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid. It is one of the most eloquent speeches we have ever heard - and we can only imagine what it must have been like to have been in the audience on that remarkable day. ![]() One of our most prominent recollections from our cadet days at West Point is the farewell speech by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to the Corps of Cadets when he received the Thayer Award on May 12, 1962. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can’t refuse. " From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” ( Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. The Kindle version is a little bit cheaper than the paperback AND you can save money on the Audible version if you own the Kindle copy! I love to use the Amazon Whispersync feature to go back and forth between audio and digital reading.You can get the book from your library. ![]() Money-saving tricks for reading this month’s book pick: ![]() Get your copy of this month’s book club pick:īuy the book on Audible. ![]() ![]() Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives.Īt once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor.Ĭomplications was a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause a young woman with nausea that won't go away a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. This audio is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is - complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human.Ītul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. ![]() Note Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. ![]() Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. Complications: A Surgeons Notes On an Imperfect Science. A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. ![]() ![]() However, not all Jews practice Jewish dietary laws. As Jews, they would normally not eat cheeseburgers due to the combination of milk and meat being non-kosher. Upon arrival, Mort and Muriel are arguing over eating cheeseburgers.It is unknown how Mayor Adam West leaves the mansion at the end, as he arrived by parachute.Herbert originally arrived alone, but there is someone in the truck with him as he leaves.During the storm and between when everyone tries to leave and when Derek is killed, both Derek and Quagmire leave the convertible tops down on their cars.Also, when the group tries to leave in the storm, Jillian isn't in Derek Wilcox's car, even though that was the car she arrived in. When the group evacuate the mansion, Carl is seen getting into an Ice-Cream truck, even though it is Herbert's truck. ![]() The natural assumption is that it is being driven by the police. ![]()
![]() ![]() While her talent for fact-finding keeps her busy, her personal life is lonely. Psychic Selene Johansen is an excellent police investigator, able to determine guilt from the first handshake. Simone’s Books: Watching Over The Watcher Published works include Watching Over the Watcher, Keeping Katerina, High Plains Holiday, When the Music Ends, When the Words are Spoken, Beautiful Rose, Pacific Fire, The Naphil’s Kiss, and several others, but more are in the works. In her spare time, Mme Beaudelaire reads romances as fast as she can get her hands on them, and when she isn’t reading them, she’s writing them! Simone Beaudelaire is the pseudonym for a single mom and teacher from Texas. She’s not only a great author who writes romances in a variety of settings, but she’s also a lovely friend. Simone is a wonderful author of some hot and steamy romances, and her books are a highly recommended to readers. ![]() Simone and I have gotten to know one another through the Anything Goes Author Group on Facebook, and through her choosing to use the services of The Pedantic Punctuator, my editing service earlier this year. This week’s author spotlight is on my friend and fellow indie author, Simone Beaudelaire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year's Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group's tenuous nostalgia to bear. The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. ![]() For this vacation, they've chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands-the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Windowĭuring the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. "A ripping, riveting murder mystery - wily as Agatha Christie, charged with real menace, real depth. Goodreads - BookBub - PopSugar - BookRiot - Crimereads - Pure Wow - Crime by the BookĪLL OF THEM ARE FRIENDS. NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED THRILLERS OF THE WINTER BY: ![]() ![]() Before the saving fever gripped me, I had a very normal and healthy love for spending. (I made one box last for two years.) And when I was first labeled "The Frugal Zealot" even I had to smile.īut it was not always this way. One Christmas an aunt gave me two boxes of aluminum foil after learning that I reused the stuff. Even Depression-era relatives think that I am too thrifty. People who know me believe that I worry too much about money, that I don’t spend enough on myself, and that I don’t know how to have any fun. Frugality may be prompted by other priorities, but the end result is the same: a healthier planet, and a healthier bank account. ![]() She reminds us (by not saying a word about it) that environmental or humanitarian concern is not the only motivator for a less consumptive lifestyle. ![]() For instance, the first issue had a sidebar called "10 Painless Ways to Save $100 This Year,"as well as "A Really Dull Article About Health Insurance" (that was actually very enlightening).Īmy Dacyczyn, editor and "crack staff investigative reporter," wrote about the genesis of her newsletter in the premiere cover story, which we reprint here. We recently received our "Free Premiere Issue" of one of the most refreshing newsletters we’ve seen in years – "The Tightwad Gazette, Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle." For only $12 a year – "that’s $1 each if you split it with 11 tightwad friends" – you get 12 issues of info on creative ways to save money. ![]() ![]() What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really Elphaba's son? He has her broom and her cape - but what of her powers? Can he find his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in the forbidding prison, Southstairs? Can he fulfill the last wishes of a dying princess? In an Oz that, since the Wizard's departure, is under new and dangerous management, can Liir keep his head down long enough to grow up?įor the countless fans who have been dazzled and entranced by Maguire's Oz, Son of a Witch is the rich reward they have awaited so long. But he is tended at the Cloister of Saint Glinda by the silent novice called Candle, who wills him back to life with her musical gifts. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are. ![]() It builds us up inside it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. Son of a Witch The Wicked Years continue in Gregory Maguires Son of a Witch-the heroic saga of the hapless yet determined young man who may or may not be the offspring of the fabled Wicked Witch of the West. Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch 173 likes Like Memory is a part of the present. ![]() The long-anticipated sequel to the million-copy bestselling novel Wicked ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The television movie series (also known as The Love Saga) is loosely based on the book series, was written by Cindy Kelly, Michael Landon Jr., and Janette Oake, and was produced for Hallmark by Larry Levinson Productions. The book series was written in the 70's and 80's by Janette Oke, published by Bethany House, and includes 8 books: This Wiki is dedicated to both the book and movie "Love Comes Softly" series. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, while I made the best stories in the daycare centre, most of the other teachers made better play doh. On his official website, Munsch recalls, “ For ten years I did this without thinking I had any special skill. ![]() But writing was his past time, not something he, or anyone else, really valued at the time.įast forward a few decades, and you find Robert Munsch working in day cares and preschools, captivating children with his storytelling. He particularly enjoyed writing poetry, both the serious and silly varieties. The prolific author struggled through most of his schooling, but always had a passion for writing. Well, to be more accurate, Munsch specifies that he lived in Pennsylvania when he was young, and that he never really did grow up at all. ![]() Robert Munsch grew up in Pennsylvania, in a big family with nine kids. ![]() |