Where are you mentally? Are you comfortable with yourself? What experiences brought you to this place and time? Perhaps, you have a lot to share, as so many of us do. That is why we have heart-to-heart conversations-the essence of this collection. T te- -t te: Conversations about Our Experiences offers the heartfelt, open, and honest conversations we need to have about the experiences that brought us to the place where we are right now-whether that is a comfortable place or not.

In this, her second poetry collection, author Beverly Maitland begins a new, thought-provoking conversation about our personal experiences and how they have shaped us. She uses poetry of all forms, along with insightful conversations about our life experiences, to explore the struggles we face, the emotions we feel, and the pleasures we encounter. T te- -t te: Conversations about Our Experiences encourages intuitive reflection through engaging conversations, enabling us to analyze our lives and put into unique perspective our own paths of failure, success, or enlightenment.

This collection, with powerful imagery and reflection, seeks to help you contextualize the past by accepting what was, sail enthusiastically with the waves of the present, and learn how to use those experiences to shape a future of growth, wisdom, and enlightenment.

In every corner of the world, where there is a school, there is a struggling child. From Boston to Bangkok, from New York to the Netherlands, from the East Coast to the West Coast, students struggle in schools. In The Empowered Parent, author, parent, and teacher Beverly Maitland shares six basic but powerful strategies to help your child succeed in school, one hour at a time.

Beverly Maitland provides real-family examples, guiding parents into a strategic and unique plan suitable for each family, no matter what circumstances surround their lives. Seeking to help children from birth through high school, she shares simple secrets that can empower parents to understand who they are as parents and what power they naturally have within them to value their responsibilities and to lead their children to a life of success beyond the classroom.

Filled with techniques and usable information, "The Empowered Parent" communicates that every outstanding achievement may come with considerable sacrifi ce and diffi cult struggles, in which the parent and the child must be equal participants. Even so, just one hour of consistency each day can turn your child away from the path of defeat and toward the mark of success.