![]() ![]() ![]() If I look in the mirror, my reflection is there. I was the ghost in the machine for years, and now I’m not a ghost anymore. Occasionally I was in pictures, and early on I was doing interviews with them, and now, considering I’ve been doing it so long, it’s a strange sensation. It’s not like I’ve gotta go on the bus when they fly. Nothing has changed - there’s no different treatment. He continues supporting veterans through the Gary Sinise Foundation, and. “Jon and I never spoke about it, and all of a sudden I was a member,” McDonald told the Deseret News in 2018, ahead of the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The 67-year-old husband and father of three has been busy for the past couple of years. The reason I got into a band to begin with is because I didn’t want to work.”įollowing John Such’s departure from Bon Jovi, Hugh McDonald, a former Park City, Utah, resident, took the bassist’s place - although he didn’t become an official member of the band until 2016. “It felt like work, and I didn’t want to work. “When I was 43, I started to get burned out,” he told The Asbury Park Press in 2000, per Variety. ![]() John Such - who is 10 years older than singer Jon Bon Jovi - remained with the band until 1994. ![]() Alec, you will be missed /ilfTeYyQhR- Bon Jovi June 5, 2022 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “The border is unique - it’s its own little country within a country,” Del Rio City Manager John Sheedy said in an interview. It’s also driving city officials to plead with state legislatures and Capitol Hill for help. The industry’s airport desertions pose a serious risk to the economies of these communities, and local leaders believe that a lack of air service threatens a teetering rural America that already feels forgotten by the rest of the country. a pace whose breadth and speed are almost unheard of. Ogden, Utah Stowe, Vt., and Williamsport, Penn. More than 14 airports have lost commercial service completely, including facilities that served places such as Mobile, Ala. ![]() Since January 2020, at least 324 airports have seen service cuts, losing an average of 30 percent of their flights, according to the Regional Airline Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I liked the world of Firebird and the different universes Marguerite ends up in.įrom the beginning Theo rubbed me the wrong way. I give A Thousand Pieces of You four out of five hearts. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is far more sinister than she expected. Before long she begins to question Paul’s guilt-as well as her own heart. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows-including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. ![]() So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. But then Marguerite’s father is murdered, and the killer-her parent’s handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul- escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes-and promises to revolutionize science forever. Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Title & Author: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray There were a couple of things I did not like about A Thousand Pieces of You, but overall the novel is great! Book Review: A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray ![]() I would love you in any shape, in any world, with any past ![]() ![]() Sometimes, my prepared invention slips out before I realize it: I'm Japanese-Korean-Chinese-mixed-race Asian. I hide my distaste because it is un-American. I have always hated this question and resent him for asking. ![]() They grinned - Si, si, Senor - and grilled me a slab of beef. But I'm American, Vietnamese American, I shouted at them. A crew of Mexican ranchers said they liked me because I was a bueno hermano-good brother-a Vietnamito, and my little Vietnam had golpea big America back in '75. All the extras, they confided, were because I wasn't a gringo. Taking money from a poor and crazy man brings bad luck. You are in the desert going nowhere, so you are crazy. Senor, they explained in the patient tone reserved for those convalescing, you are riding a bicycle, so you are poor. Every place gave me nourishment men and women plucked grapefruits and tangerines from their family gardens, bagged food from their pantries, and accepted not one peso in return. When I was hungry or thirsty, I stopped at ranches and farms and begged the owners for water from their wells and tried to buy tortillas, eggs, goat cheese, and fruit. I had been pedaling and pushing through the forlorn land, roaming the foreign coast on disused roads and dirt tracks. ![]() "How you got here on that bike is amazing." He smiles, suddenly very charismatic, and shakes his head of long matty blond hair. ![]() ![]() ![]() They will recognize and nod in agreement at the observations Ephron makes about getting old. I think this book is a perfect choice for women in the Sixty and Me community. Ephron also bravely tells a lot of intimate and funny stories about her own forgetfulness, friends, and family. She also writes about the losses that start to happen in midlife and how to come to grips with the reality of life transitions. It represents the inevitable and her neck becomes a symbol for the experience of physical aging. ![]() She jokes about hair dye, lotions and creams that help to stop the clock, but realizes she can’t do anything about her neck. It is a light read about a serious topic and a welcome addition to Ephron’s collection of books in light of her death in 2012.Įphron discusses menopause, empty nesting and what she calls “maintenance.” She includes essays on beauty and the obsession many older women have to maintain a youthful appearance. She applied her dry sense of humor to soften the edges of the emotional and physical aches and pains emerging as she got older. ![]() She is best known for her movie scripts for romantic comedies like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally.”Īs Ephron reflected on her aging body, she decided to use humor and lighthearted cynicism to reveal her observations. “ I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman” is a collection of essays about the experience of growing older by Nora Ephron. ![]() ![]() ![]() All true healing happens within, which in turn offers you the miracle of hope.” -Sarah Brassard, author of Inside “In Whole Again, Jackson MacKenzie has synthesized the important basic principles and tools of healing and writes in a style that is both warm and articulate. It takes your hand and encourages you to keep going, prompting you to build a power base of self-discovery that takes you home to yourself. Dismantling the effects of trauma can be a daunting undertaking. This book may help fill in the holes that can make you whole again.” -Jerold Kreisman, MD, coauthor of I Hate You-Don’t Leave Me “Jackson’s book is an empathetic gem of true knowing. ![]() ![]() MacKenzie addresses codependency, addiction, post-traumatic stress, and borderline, narcissistic, and other personality disorders, outlining pathways to achieve forgiveness and discharging shame. He describes how development of a ‘protective self’ can provide acute, numbing relief from emotional pain, but at the expense of more enduring self-acceptance. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WHOLE AGAIN “In Whole Again, Jackson MacKenzie lays open some of his own personal wounds to advise on how scars from past traumas can heal. ![]() ![]() The book’s broader message asks (or implies?) that women who break boundaries can expect dire consequences – from pregnancy to murder.Īnd, as the Stepford wives and Rosemary Woodhouse (Rosemary’s Baby) learn, there’s no easy resolution or agency for women in a man’s world.Ī kiss Before Dying is short, salacious and very readable, with the pace picking up considerably after a measured start: There are also broader expectations about good girls versus good-time girls. Most obviously, sex and pregnancy outside marriage is a big no-no. The Kingship sisters are a new breed of women growing up in 1950s America with all the trappings of independence, yet still tied to family and social expectations. Here it’s rich-but-loveless Dorothy Kingship, then later her sisters Ellen and Marion. Like Levin’s The Stepford Wives and Rosemary’s Baby, A Kiss before Dying (1953) is about women in peril. Unfortunately her gold-digger boyfriend thinks murder is a better option. ![]() ![]() When college student Dorothy Kingship discovers she’s pregnant, marriage seems like the perfect solution. Boy meets girl but falls in love with her bank account in Ira Levin’s first novel, a Kiss Before Dying. ![]() ![]() ![]() It reminded me of the mantra of "temporary perfection" that I had been turning over and over in my mind throughout reading this book. The grounding nature of her writing (literally, calling on organizers and orchestrators to draw from patterns and solutions already found in nature) reminds us simply that "connection to each other is the most important thing to cultivate in the face of hopelessness - we don't want to cling to outdated paradigms we want to cling to each other and shift the paradigms."Humbly, brown acknowledges that in accordance with emergence, all the ideas in the book may evolve beyond recognition sooner or later, and that's exactly the point. ![]() ![]() Change is the common language of the world, and adrienne maree brown lays out a broadly applicable manual for transformation, in Emergent. Specifically, Octavia Butler's visionary worlds and vivid concepts can be applied to logic, strategy, organizational planning. The most moving, also most obvious, takeaway I had from Emergent Strategy, is that fiction can inform nonfiction. ![]() ![]() As a sought-after speaker, he has presented his trading strategies in seventeen countries to thousands of traders and analysts including, by request, the World Bank and the Federal Reserve. He is an instructor at the New York Institute of Finance and has been a guest lecturer at four universities. Nison's work has been highlighted in financial media around the world, including the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Worth Magazine, Euroweek, and Institutional Investor. His book, Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, continues to be an international bestseller. Nison, the first to reveal candle charts to the Western world, is the acknowledged authority on Japanese charting techniques as applied to Western markets. Steve Nison, CMT, is founder and President of Nison Research International Inc., which provides customized educational and technical advisory services. ![]() ![]() Hope Larson: It's been an incredible experience. What's the journey been like since your adaptation first debuted? Do you see any signs of it slowing down anytime soon? Since then, you won the Eisner for Best Publication for Teens for the graphic novel, and the trade paperback is going to be published at the end of March. ![]() ![]() March 31 st sees the release of the trade paperback from Square Fish, and Larson was kind enough to take some time out of her busy schedule to answer a few of my questions via email.Ĭameron Hatheway: It's been three years since your A Wrinkle in Time adaptation was first published as a hardcover. At 400 pages, it's one of Larson's most ambitious comic projects to date, taking her 2 years to complete, and her passion and hard work can be seen on every page, in every detail. Larson's illustrations and vision of L'Engle's classic time-travel fantasy book brought the fantastic world of Meg, Calvin O'Keefe and Charles Wallace Murry to life for a new generation of readers, and has become a staple in classrooms as well. The graphic novel went on to win numerous awards and praise, including the Eisner for Best Publication for Teens, reached #2 on the New York Times Bestseller List, and was the California Library Association's Best Graphic Novel of 2012 as well as Barnes & Noble's. ![]() Back in 2012, publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux released Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel adapted by Hope Larson ( Gray Horses, Chiggers, Mercury). ![]() |