From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. See – She Knows! My grandmother’s full name was Maria Concetta Nesta Gagliardi, but everyone always called her Nannie. Nannie’s mother was three years old when her family came to the United States from the Avellino Provence,…
I: THREE WAYS OF APPROACHING A WINDOWSILL: THE MULTIPLE LIVES OF THE STORIES
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. If You Want Good Weather… Even though this book is about my extended Italian-American family, I will begin with a story from the Irish side of the family. I am the oldest of two daughters. On the…
Chase What Really Matters
An excerpt from Chapter 8 of Turn & Burn: The Scriptwriter’s Guide to Writing Better Screenplays Faster by CJ Walley I’ve yet to hear of any screenwriter reaching some kind of pinnacle in their career where all their worries and fears drained from them. If you care a great deal…
Coaching Youth Football by Ray Power
The Introduction to Coaching Youth Football: What Soccer Coaches Can Learn From The Professional Game by Ray Power Before you can coach others, first you must learn to coach yourself. Johan Cruyff In my early 20s, I made football coaching my professional aim in life. Even back then, I was…
Introducing Turn & Burn – the Screenwriting Book – from CJ Walley
The Foreword to the practical book for screenwriters, from CJ Walley, explaining what Turn & Burn is all about... Foreword Firstly, before I get into things, I want to talk a little about who I am and my motivation for sharing my thinking on screenwriting. When I wrote parts of…
Chinese Zodiac 2022 Horoscope – Year of the Black Tiger
Stand well back. Drum roll, please! Make way for the grand entrance of the magnificent Black Tiger. That’s the Year of the Black Tiger, of course, which bounds into the world on the 1st of February 2022, and swaggers on through until the 21st of January 2023. It’s been 60…
Football Dribbling
Click on the Cover to see this Outstanding Book Mobility/Movement Movement can be sub-categorised in two ways: movement with the ball, and movement without the ball. Movement with the ball, in essence, describes dribbling or running with the ball. Dribbling can be categorised as tighter, quick, small touches, performed under…
Sustainable Living and the Consumer-Led Movement
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of: “Spend Green and Save The World: Tackling Climate Change Through The Consumer-Led Movement“ * Section 3 – The Consumer-Led Movement Good buy to climate change Not using our higher brain capacity has made us forget that we are a part of nature, and that…
Living with Chronic Pain
PROLOGUE The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi I thought that I had finished this book, but then something happened in my life that led me to write this prologue. The week that I finished the first draft of the book, I developed sciatica. Initially, it…
Chronic Pain Management, Mindfulness, and Activity
Taken from Chapter 1 of Master Your Chronic Pain by Dr Nicola Sherlock - a leading specialist in pain management for more than 20 years. Turning Up and Down the Chronic Pain Volume Dial Scientists can be heard saying that ‘our nervous system is plastic’, by which they mean that…