A book of advice for teen girls entering into high school. Chapters include: Beauty, Friends, Cooking, Etiquette, Love, etc. Great graduation, birthday, and/or holiday gift!
This book was originally meant for my younger sisters for their thirteenth birthday! It has tips, tricks, and tales for entering into your teen years and adulthood. It has tips from the author... More > (myself) as well as short tips/tales from close friends and family. Lessons: Beauty, Friendship, Cooking, School, Love, Movies, Etiquette, Cars, etc< Less
This book was originally intended for my younger sisters' thirteenth birthday! It has advice for all basic parts of being a young teen girl, entering high school. Chapters include: Beauty/Health,... More > Cooking, Tools, Etiquette, etc. This is the fourth edition, Part 1. Part Two is in the works ("Tips, Tricks, and Tales for Being an [Older] Teenage Girl").< Less
CAPTIVATING THE ESCAPE ARTIST is a modern day tale that explores same sex relationships. A gypsy boy from Algiers meets an aspiring composer-musician in San Francisco. In unseemly settings, they... More > share lively conversations about ant etiquette, rude idioms, and a satirical history of mankind. Their two histories span childhood discoveries, the insecurities of teenagers, highs and lows of substance abuse, and the miracles of recovery. Told with self-effacing heart and humor, the two characters mature, showing a capacitiy for loving and sharing each other in a world worth living in - yes, a world scarred with war, but also filled with magic and wonder.< Less
CAPTIVATING THE ESCAPE ARTIST is a modern day tale that explores same sex relationships. A gypsy boy from Algiers meets an aspiring composer-musician in San Francisco. In unseemly settings, they... More > share lively conversations about ant etiquette, rude idioms, and a satirical history of mankind. Their two histories span childhood discoveries, the insecurities of teenagers, highs and lows of substance abuse, and the miracles of recovery. Told with self-effacing heart and humor, the two characters mature, showing a capacitiy for loving and sharing each other in a world worth living in - yes, a world scarred with war, but also filled with magic and wonder.< Less
CAPTIVATING THE ESCAPE ARTIST is a modern day tale that explores same sex relationships. A gypsy boy from Algiers meets an aspiring composer-musician in San Francisco. In unseemly settings, they... More > share lively conversations about ant etiquette, rude idioms, and a satirical history of mankind. Their two histories span childhood discoveries, the insecurities of teenagers, highs and lows of substance abuse, and the miracles of recovery. Told with self-effacing heart and humor, the two characters mature, showing a capacitiy for loving and sharing each other in a world worth living in - yes, a world scarred with war, but also filled with magic and wonder.< Less
There aren’t many items you can buy or organizations you can join that will not come with some sort of manual or handbook. However, when you get married, you don’t get anything.... More > It’s all trial and error. The manual will instruct you on how to properly utilize your new purchase and the handbook will define the purpose of your new organization along with its proper etiquette and protocol. Again, you get married and you get nothing. About 50% of all marriages end in divorce. It has to be admitted that many entering are simply unprepared. Many approach marriage with the same understanding of dating teenagers. When an ill-equipped person faces a challenge in their marriage, they resort back to their teenage knowledge in finding a solution; they breakup and find someone new. In a marriage however, there is no breakup and find someone new; this time it’s divorce and remarry. Getting married is one of the greatest decisions you will ever make; shouldn’t you at least try to understand it?< Less
There aren’t many items you can buy or organizations you can join that will not come with some sort of manual or handbook. However, when you get married, you don’t get anything.... More > It’s all trial and error. The manual will instruct you on how to properly utilize your new purchase and the handbook will define the purpose of your new organization along with its proper etiquette and protocol. Again, you get married and you get nothing. About 50% of all marriages end in divorce. It has to be admitted that many entering are simply unprepared. Many approach marriage with the same understanding of dating teenagers. When an ill-equipped person faces a challenge in their marriage, they resort back to their teenage knowledge in finding a solution; they breakup and find someone new. In a marriage however, there is no breakup and find someone new; this time it’s divorce and remarry. Getting married is one of the greatest decisions you will ever make; shouldn’t you at least try to understand it?< Less
There aren’t many items you can buy or organizations you can join that will not come with some sort of manual or handbook. However, when you get married, you don’t get anything.... More > It’s all trial and error. The manual will instruct you on how to properly utilize your new purchase and the handbook will define the purpose of your new organization along with its proper etiquette and protocol. Again, you get married and you get nothing. About 50% of all marriages end in divorce. It has to be admitted that many entering are simply unprepared. Many approach marriage with the same understanding of dating teenagers. When an ill-equipped person faces a challenge in their marriage, they resort back to their teenage knowledge in finding a solution; they breakup and find someone new. In a marriage however, there is no breakup and find someone new; this time it’s divorce and remarry. Getting married is one of the greatest decisions you will ever make; shouldn’t you at least try to understand it?< Less
During the middle years of the twentieth century, spanking reality was different from today. It was still possible for even older teenagers to be taught valuable lessons over a parent’s knee... More > and arise with a vow to behave better rather than a threat to call Child Protection Services. College coeds dropped their panties and bent over so that “Big Sister” and her paddle would could instruct them in sorority etiquette and deal with general behavioral issues. Young women, living on their own for the first time would remember how they were kept in line in earlier years and agree to spanking arrangements with their roommates to enforce the performance of apartment chores. Young men might have mothers or aunts who saw no reason that boys should be exempt from the punishments visited upon their sisters. A young husband, frustrated with the antics of his bride, might decide that she really wasn’t too old for the disciplinary application of hand or hairbrush to her uncovered bottom.< Less
