timothy | November 24, 2011
I am Charles Rodenbough and beyond my role as husband, father, and grandfather, I suppose I can characterize myself as a writer and teacher, both capacities I have enjoyed since retiring from being a business manager. Many years ago I was aware of what I enjoyed doing but I let others convince me of my [...]
timothy | November 17, 2011
Meet Abraham Firestone March… My mother, a very religious person and prayer warrior, took the name Abraham from the Bible. She gave me her maiden name Firestone as my middle name. My name Abraham has been a blessing and a curse, depending on where I happened to be. When I worked in New York, [...]
timothy | November 7, 2011
With her balance of misanthropy and anthropological curiosity, author Elizaveta Ristrova travels around the world in search of interesting material. Her books consider the significance of religion, clashes between races and culture, the relationships between humans and the environment, and the creation and unravelling of human relationships. She keeps a day-job as a lawyer, focusing [...]
timothy | November 4, 2011
When’s the last time a novel made you laugh out loud? When’s the last time you fell in love with a character? In Revelations by Sandy Cohen you won’t be able to help yourself, you’ll do both. Join Abis, trickster-god or mad man, you decide, as he guides Manny Markowitz, and you, through the wilds [...]
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 [...]
