timothy | October 31, 2011
The Biography Of My Memoir “Why I have the kind of vivid Technicolor memory I do has always been a mystery to me and to the few who knew of it.” The above quote is the first sentence of my memoir and for the next 327 pages I explain in detail what I [...]
timothy | October 31, 2011
“JUST WHO IS OANA, ANYWAY?” Healing through laughter is not a dream, but a recipe for survival If you were to read a book about Oana’s life, you might easily decide it was a work of fiction. Born in Bucharest, Romania, Oana lived twenty years under the grotesque dictatorial regime of Ceausescu. After the [...]
timothy | October 29, 2011
Spawned in the cornfields of rural Illinoisin 1984, he grew up with a wholesome face and an uncouth mind. A love of physical challenges and lush landscapes inspired him to join a volunteer wildfire squad in 2003, and it was here that he was put on the search and rescue team for the Columbia Space [...]
timothy | October 29, 2011
I grew up speaking English and Sicilian dialect. Don’t know which came first. At St. Mary’s I was “the boy in the third row staring into space,” tuning out the Principal, who was visiting our class. I would sleepwalk through my first 30 years, baffled by the bittersweet mystery of life. Heck, I still may [...]
timothy | October 29, 2011
A supporter of the EBMRF Foundation, you will find many articles written by Ms. Brinkman that focus on opening people’s eyes and hearts to the E.B. Children. In fact, Monica M. Brinkman’s first authored stage play, How Lucky Can You Get, performed in San Jose, CA some twenty-five years ago and donated all proceeds to the [...]
timothy | October 29, 2011
Amy Krout-Horn (Oieihake Win, Last Word Woman) has resided in two worlds; the world of the sighted and the world of the blind. She has been a writer in both of them. She spent time in WashingtonDCacting as a political lobbyist for the disabled, worked as the first blind teaching assistant at the Universityof Minnesota’s [...]
timothy | October 29, 2011
Maggie walks in two worlds. The one is reality, the here and now: in the other there is no concept of time and space. But in both worlds love is what holds it all together. The love of the Superior Beings, the love between a parent and a child, the love between siblings, friends, for [...]
timothy | October 28, 2011
Randy woke up this morning inVanderhoof,British Columbia, happy to be living—quite literally. We don’t have many days on this earth and Randy appreciates that fact more than many because he is a survivor of a rare kind of brain bleed—a subarachnoid hemmorhage.. Although there are scars, a titanium plate and some lasting mental challenges, [...]
timothy | October 27, 2011
an Army doctor. Early one morning in December our family woke up to loud sounds that first seemed like the Navy practicing their firing. But it was the Japanese attack onPearl Harbor. The days following were the beginning of a time that changed everything for me. Many years later, I thought of that time, of the [...]
timothy | October 24, 2011
Wendy Joseph vies with her characters for a life of romance and adventure. A deckhand on merchant ships, she has outrun pirates off of Somalia, steered ships large and small through hurricanes and the Bering Sea, and helped rescue seals on the Pacific coast. Believing history must be lived, she has crewed the 18th century [...]
