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Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide by Maren O. Mitchell

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Monday, 19 November 2012 15:14
Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide by Maren O. Mitchell Line of Sight Press $9.75, paperback ISBN: 978-0985311902 November, 2012 Healing, Memoir Available at www.Amazon.com Within this book is help for those with chronic pain who do not have information on drug-free alternatives. Often chronic pain sufferers search haphazardly for too long on their own to find the help they need. While touching on a variety of methods, Beat Chronic Pain, An Insider’s Guide is intentionally brief, with short chapters, as the capacity to concentrate and retain information is greatly reduced in those with pain. The “Introduction” offers reasons why chronic pain is not always recognized, described, and treated. Chapters have personal examples of the author finding a tool, a method, and using it to rebuild her life. These tools can be used by anyone with chronic pain to improve chances of surviving the stress of constant pain, and reclaiming one’s life. Included are suggested readings and resource contacts. Please share this information with anyone you know who may be interested in fighting chronic pain by means other than drugs. This is also an excellent resource for primary caregivers, and those who live with, or interact regularly with chronic pain sufferers. Maren welcomes email comments and/or reviews online. Since 1987, due to a spinal cord tumor and surgery, Maren O. Mitchell has had chronic pain, termed “central pain.” For years, through trial and error, she searched for ways to live a sane and full life again. For over twenty years now, without relying on drugs, she has been accomplishing her goal. One of the methods Maren found for coping has been writing. Her poetry has appeared in Southern Humanities Review, The Classical Outlook, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, Appalachian Journal, Red Clay Reader, Volume 4, The Richmond Broom, The Arts Journal, and the anthologies Sunrise from Blue Thunder, Echoes Across the Blue Ridge, and Nurturing Paws. Poems are archived in online journals Wild Goose Poetry Review and Pirene’s Fountain, and forthcoming in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia, Pirene’s Fountain, and Wild Goose Poetry Review. Her poem “Not the Poem” won this year’s 1st Place Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Georgia Poetry Society. Maren reads at several different poetry venues each month. She has taught poetry at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC, and catalogued at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. Another way of dealing with her pain is through the Japanese art of paper folding. By teaching, she shares her knowledge of origami. A native of North Carolina, in her childhood she lived in Bordeaux, France, and Kaiserslautern, Germany. After moving throughout the southeast U.S., Maren now lives with her husband and two cats in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia on the edge of a national forest.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 November 2012 08:31

Berkeley Prelude by Mark Smith-Soto

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Monday, 12 November 2012 16:00
Berkeley Prelude by Mark Smith-Soto Unicorn Press $12, paperback, Smyth-sewn binding ISBN: 0-87775-956-0 December, 2012 Poetry Available from the publisher A narrative in eight parts, Berkeley Prelude is the story of two men: Mark Smith-Soto and Mark Smith-Soto. With nimble humor and unﬂinching gaze, an older Smith-Soto traces himself through the relationships and experiences of his younger, yet-unformed self. The backdrop is the fully-matured chaos of 1970s Berkeley, California, where street preachers may work for the FBI, machete-wielding night-stalkers are a fact of life, and a man with no face sees what no one else can. In the end, Berkeley Prelude cautions that when you look back, the face you don’t recognize might be your own. Mark Smith-Soto is professor of Spanish and editor of International Poetry Review at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Born in his father's hometown, Washington, D.C., and reared in his mother's native country, Costa Rica, he contributes new tonalities, by turns ironic, lyrical, or passionate, to the growing chorus of U.S. Latino poetry. His poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Review, Louisville Review, Nimrod, Poetry East, Quarterly West, Rosebud, Southern Poetry Review, The Sun, and numerous other magazines. Award a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing, he has published three prize-winning chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, Our Lives are Rivers (University Press of Florida, 2003), and Any Second Now (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2006). His translation of the selected poetry of Costa Rican writer Ana Istarú, Fever Season, was published in 2010 by Unicorn Press.
Last Updated on Friday, 09 November 2012 23:26

Slightly Cracked by Susan Whitfield

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Friday, 09 November 2012 15:31
Slightly Cracked by Susan Whitfield CreateSpace $13.99 paperback / $2.99 e-book ISBN: 978-1478335017 October, 2012 Women's Fiction Available at www.Amazon.com In Slightly Cracked, Sugar Babe Beanblossom and best pal, Daisy Marie Hazelhurst, have been buddies since they were born two weeks to the day apart. Living near each other, they share happy and sad memories, outrageous antics and giggles, marital and health glitches. The only thing that threatens their lifelong friendship is the Old Dickeywood subdivision goose controversy. When Daisy takes a nasty spill on her bike, Sugar Babe races to her side. After two trips to the ER, Daisy is diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome and tests reveal an even more sinister affliction. As Daisy weakens, Sugar Babe embraces the realization that friends must encourage and protect one another through difficult circumstances, and … “Driving Miss Daisy” takes on a whole new meaning. Susan Whitfield is a native of North Carolina, where she sets her Logan Hunter Mysteries. Genesis Beach is set along the Crystal Coast, Just North of Luck, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Hell Swamp along Black River in Pender County, and Sin Creek in Wilmington. Whitfield collected family recipes from mystery writers across the country for Killer Recipes, a real cookbook with mysterious names. Proceeds go to The American Cancer Society. Her website is www.susanwhitfieldonline.com has more information including video trailers and event locations. Whitfield interviews other writers at www.susanwhitfield.blogspot.com. She is currently working on the fifth Logan Hunter Mystery.
Last Updated on Friday, 09 November 2012 13:44