Train Your Brain, Claim Your Power

Like most of us, Betty Ann Hoehn's life has not always run smoothly.  The key to overcoming challenges is to learn to stop and smell the raindrops.  It is a success story to reach those who need help to overcome their own circumstances.  If you are currently in pain, please take a moment to stop to smell the raindrops.  There are some important healing messages in it.  

Education is one of the most important gifts we can provide our children.  It's more than just reading, writing and arithmetic.  It's also problem solving strategies that help them achieve their dreams and goals.  In "Chloe and Josh Learn Resilience with Grit Gal," Ken Kohotek teaches the basics of a system that helps children bounce back and design a plan to achieve.  These to...

As presidential politics continues to leave no one satisfied, John Bodnar's novel "The People's President" offers a fresh look at how campaigns could be run.  George Franklin, the candidate, is a professor and bases his campaign on asking for no money to run it.  At first, no one takes him seriously, however, the national student organization supports his candidacy that has a snowball ef...

Pura Regalado was raised a Christian in the Philippines.  Later in life while traveling at the Aztec temple in Mexico, Pura received a vision that has profoundly affected her mission in life.  Her book Pure Gift 2 lays out what she saw and was told in her vision.  She was told to carry that message to everyone who fails to honor the commandment Thou Shalt Not Kill.  If you watc...

Renae Gott loves to write for children.  Books are the doorway to learning to dream and realizing that you can grow up to be anything you want to be.  Her first book is "Mommy, What is God Doing Up There?"  It is available through Amazon. 

In a moving historical novel about an Australian soldier lost on a French battlefield during World War I, we have the opportunity to solve the mystery of what happens to those whose whereabouts are unknown after battles.  In this case, the battle was over 100 years ago and his family never knew until a recent discovery made new information available.  

After being tossed in the air by automobile, Veronnah had no visible signs of injury.  However, she quickly realized that she no longer knew who she was.   She began her journey to rediscover herself as she discovered who she was to other people - mother, employee, single.  She no longer had to live up to other people's definition of her and that has made all the difference as...

Valerie Baker Clayton is a missionary.  One night she heard a message that she was not using her gifts.  She said she'd do something.  And the message came back: NOW.  Six days later, her book "Baby Rafi" was done.  

Violet Grayson was born in the 1930's.  It was a time when women didn't expect to do more than graduate from high school, take an office job until they married and had children.  No careers.  No adventures.  However, Violet's life has given her so much more, none of it expected. 

Alycia Wright is a nurse and a writer.  Her life experiences taught her that writing is a coping skill and now she writes books that help children cope.  Combined with a love of rhyme and poetry, as well as a sense of humor, these books are a real service to children who don't understand what is going on around them.  They are both educational and fun.  Whey you share her books...

In Patricia Davis' book, "Gifts from the Spirit," she explains what the 9 gifts are, how they function, why we need them and how we can acquire them.  As you study, it helps you see where you may have a gift.  

Karen Johnson comes from a long line of storytellers,  It is a verbal tradition that harkens back to a time without computers, pen and paper.  It takes us back to the oral traditions that precede written history.  In her book, Baba the Farmer, we see an example of a working song.  Baba uses his working song to teach his boys how to live.  He sings it to the boys every day...

Stephen Peterson is a student of military history, the Bible, and an author.  He studied 8 languages while in the service and is an officer. It's fun to spend time with Stephen as he has such a diverse background.  

"Growing Up Sassafras", Hurting Little Hearts" and other titles help children deal with separation and loss through stories.  Denise draws from her training in psychology as well as life experience to craft each tale. 

There is a touch of nostalgia for those who look back on the life of a hippy.  That was the life of sex, love, drugs, rock and roll in the 60s.  Take off in a van, live in a hippy ghost town in Arizona, make enough money to travel on and see the world -- Mexico, Morocco, Europe.  But it isn't all an adventure.  At some point, even hippies have to face the real world and it isn'...

Kiana Hamilton's book "Soul Inspiration - A Journey for the Divine" is a collection of poems written down when problems came.  They kept her strong as a spiritual person.  They were lessons, instructions from God to guide her on her journey.  She had to hurry and write them down, and put problems in God's hands.  God gives it all to her.  As a matter of routine, Kiana find...

Robert Kershaw knew he wanted to help from the time he was a young boy and witnessed a young boy with Downs Syndrome being bullied.  He didn't know what that was, but he felt it was wrong.  He built his desire into his activities in high school, in community activities and his work.  He became a caregiver and after many years has captured what he learned about caregiving into his bo...

More and more, young people are stepping out of the shadows of mental illness to increase the conversation about it.  They want to remove the stigma that is often associated with schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder.  James Lauderdale uses poetry and essays to help improve the health system in this area.  It ranges from recognizing symptoms at an earlier age to ideations and lack of...

Imagine yourself parentless, surrounded by untrustworthy people, trying to survive as your enemies send dragons to kidnap you.   That's the start of The Gemini Reign, a science fiction fantasy.  

Oasis Ministry Ventures is working to Save the Oaks Camp  and Retreat Center.  I fell in love with the camp and conference center when I toured it over 10 years ago.  I placed a picture of the conference building on my vision board in the office as the prototype for a retreat center that I would like to build.  That voice in my head told me it was way too expensive, it wasn't p...

In the midst of turmoil, what can we do to improve the situation.  David Pitman has turned his desire to make a difference into the book "Expectations of Honor" where he discusses ways to get back to bringing up children as respectful, functioning adults.  Found in Biblical sources such as Proverbs 31, a simple summation is to provide love and honor for women and respect for men. 

This book is a memoir.  There is a journey in our lives, gleaning insights and glimpses that give us clarity on how the past, present and future evolve in our lives.  The selections are not chronological, but stand alone.  For her, there is something wonderful about being able to put the various circumstances in our lives into perspective.  

Dale Hansen felt that people often heard the Bible verses, but never discovered their true power to comfort and bring you through difficult situations.  The Word helps us achieve 4 things:  more prayer, more time with the Word, Bible verses that you can carry around within you, and a deepening relationshp with God and with others.  In "One Week at a Time", Dale focuses in depth on o...

What if you were trapped inside the Wishing Tree?  Who would come to rescue you?  

Diabolical politicians need a way to cover up crimes they have committed.  They concoct a plan to overpopulate the Adirondacks with wolves and inject their food supply with chemicals to make them extremely aggressive.  The result: Wolves who turn on everything that lives and moves in the mountains, including people.  What will it take for people to figure out what is going on and th...