In the Land of Ox, Clayton Thomas Moore is a righteous follower of Christ, but he is also a student of evolutionary biology. Moore has found a way to mix science and Christianity-and in the process, bring enlightenment to both sides of the spectrum. However, in the Land of Ox, there is a strong divide between science and religion. Because of this divide, Moore is brought up on charges.

Moore must appear before the Oxian Supreme Court and answer for his actions. He is guilty of unsettling the faith-science split, threatening the cultural equilibrium in the Land of Ox. As Moore prepares to defend his case before the Oxian Supreme Court justices, though, it becomes apparent that the Supreme Court justices are deeply divided along lines of religious belief.

"Oxbowl Incident" is a religious courtroom drama that argues for the validity of science and religion. Although the case of Moore vs. Oxbowl is fictitious, the farce is not far from the truth, as modern society wrestles with similar quandaries. Will the Oxian Supreme Court hand down punishment upon Clayton Thomas Moore? Or will the varied beliefs of the Oxian justices leaveMoore to be the last man standing in this battle of Christian faith?

Mischievous Rascal is the story of a mother's unflagging zeal to correctly raise her mischievous rascal of a son and of that rascal's search, some sixty plus years later, to understand his mother's fury and his father's ghostly presence. One's innate ability to face, overcome, and be strengthened by unpleasant experiences is key to human survival. The story of Thomas reveals how one child's resiliency stood in the face of adversity. --Carol Haberberger, Special Education, County Juvenile Facility Legal Assistant What lends depth to this work is the author's honesty in examining and understanding his life experiences in the hope of bettering his grandchild's opportunities for health and well-being. --Arlene Landau, Therapist The author takes us on the journey of a young boy seeking what he needed most, only to find it outside of his own family. --Cameran Haire, Corporate Managing Director

"An Educational, Inspirational Tale About Spiders That's Fun to Read." Kirkus Reviews Jerrythespider is a smart-aleck jumping spider that reluctantly joins Alma's quest to vanquish the evil Sitharon. Hanging in her web above the entrance to the old Presbyterian Church in a small California town, Alma has a nightmare about the horrible slaughter of innocent spiders by a giant flying beast, a Sitharon that lives in the ancient English woodland called Top Hat Wood. Months later, her children are born. As they balloon away to their new homes, Alma senses the presence of evil still lurking in the old woodland. She fears for the lives of her children and feels powerless against the evil Sitharon. She quietly conceives a plan to defeat the Sitharon. Confined to her web, Alma picks Jerrythespider to be her eyes and ears in Top Hat Wood. She creates a possible future where Jerrythespider meets Dr. Greenstone, who she needs to first transport Jerrythespider to England and later to be a valuable ally. But, Dr. Greenstone is preoccupied with his vacation trip to the Sutton Hoo Farmlands. Plus, he is preparing for his expert testimony at the upcoming Moroccan-Three Murder Trial. He is oblivious to the struggle between good and evil, which is literally taking place all around him. Nonetheless, Alma plans to have Jerrythespider team up with Dr. Greenstone. Together-Alma, Jerry, and Dr. Greenstone-will continue to seek and destroy evil wherever it shows its face.

"An Educational, Inspirational Tale About Spiders That's Fun to Read." Kirkus Reviews Jerrythespider is a smart-aleck jumping spider that reluctantly joins Alma's quest to vanquish the evil Sitharon. Hanging in her web above the entrance to the old Presbyterian Church in a small California town, Alma has a nightmare about the horrible slaughter of innocent spiders by a giant flying beast, a Sitharon that lives in the ancient English woodland called Top Hat Wood. Months later, her children are born. As they balloon away to their new homes, Alma senses the presence of evil still lurking in the old woodland. She fears for the lives of her children and feels powerless against the evil Sitharon. She quietly conceives a plan to defeat the Sitharon. Confined to her web, Alma picks Jerrythespider to be her eyes and ears in Top Hat Wood. She creates a possible future where Jerrythespider meets Dr. Greenstone, who she needs to first transport Jerrythespider to England and later to be a valuable ally. But, Dr. Greenstone is preoccupied with his vacation trip to the Sutton Hoo Farmlands. Plus, he is preparing for his expert testimony at the upcoming Moroccan-Three Murder Trial. He is oblivious to the struggle between good and evil, which is literally taking place all around him. Nonetheless, Alma plans to have Jerrythespider team up with Dr. Greenstone. Together-Alma, Jerry, and Dr. Greenstone-will continue to seek and destroy evil wherever it shows its face.

Arthur had not ventured more than ten inches from home. Then, Patty entered his life and the greatest adventure of his life began.

"There's the pancreas. Paddle the kayak toward the narrow tail of the organ, so we can tie up and explore," Patty commands.

"Explore what?" asks Arthur.

"The Islands of Langerhans," Patty responds.

"Oh no, here we go again I don't know if I can take any more excitement, Patty I get the heebie-jeebies every time we paddle to a new place," Arthur exclaims.

"Grow up, Arthur Are you a bacterium or a chicken?" Arthur thinks long and hard about the choices Patty gives him. He longs for the quiet and certainty of his home and school and family and friends. But at some deep level, he truly loves the excitement of exploring new lands. Patty's head slap wakes him up.

"I'm a bacterium " Arthur declares in a loud voice.

"Okay, then get out of the kayak and tie us up to the tail of the pancreas," Patty orders.

A hauntingly beautiful account of how women understand their purpose in life and use their power to transform humankind . . .

In twenty-first century America, in a remote town nestled in the Sierra mountain forests, Alma Whitman lives secluded with her brother Edgar and with Fenway, Edgar's golden retriever. Alma has never set foot in a church and draws her spiritual strength from the wilderness. She forges emotional and spiritual connections within a community of women called the Sisterhood. Within the community of sisters Alma seeks close relationships with Florence de la Rosa, Dr. Silvia Preston and Desiree Parker, whom she senses will strengthen, guide, and carry forward the work of the Sisterhood.

Every Sunday Reverend Henry rushes to the Whitman cabin for his weekly chess game. Edgar and Henry grapple in the heat of mock battle, while Alma prepares lunch for "her boys." Henry is an established minister of the cross. He holds great sway in the community of Abbeville, most of which attend his house of worship, Damascus Church. That is until Fredrika Handley's gossip mill links Reverend Henry to Anne Dean, the church secretary and wife of one of the church elders. Soon whispers are heard around town about Reverend Henry and other female members of his church.

When Alma, who is almost four decades Reverend Henry's senior, reaches out to Henry, town gossip ignites and an all out battle for the streets of Abbeville begins. Reverend Henry resigns his position as Pastor of Damascus Church. Fredrika and her gossip mill paint Alma and the Sisterhood as forest enchantresses. Abbeville slips under the control of Reverend Jacob, who renames Henry's church, the Damascus Reformed Church. And, Abbeville is literally destroyed.

In the Land of Ox, Clayton Thomas Moore is a righteous follower of Christ, but he is also a student of evolutionary biology. Moore has found a way to mix science and Christianity-and in the process, bring enlightenment to both sides of the spectrum. However, in the Land of Ox, there is a strong divide between science and religion. Because of this divide, Moore is brought up on charges.

Moore must appear before the Oxian Supreme Court and answer for his actions. He is guilty of unsettling the faith-science split, threatening the cultural equilibrium in the Land of Ox. As Moore prepares to defend his case before the Oxian Supreme Court justices, though, it becomes apparent that the Supreme Court justices are deeply divided along lines of religious belief.

"Oxbowl Incident" is a religious courtroom drama that argues for the validity of science and religion. Although the case of Moore vs. Oxbowl is fictitious, the farce is not far from the truth, as modern society wrestles with similar quandaries. Will the Oxian Supreme Court hand down punishment upon Clayton Thomas Moore? Or will the varied beliefs of the Oxian justices leaveMoore to be the last man standing in this battle of Christian faith?

After his daughter suggests he find help for his anger and drinking issues, author Taylor Lyen visits a therapist. The therapist persuades him to enter an eight-week early recovery chemical dependency program and a twelve-year follow-up chemical dependency program, both of which will address rage and anger issues and help normalize his behavior. The eight-week Kaiser program works exceptionally well for Lyen, as he learns effective ways to extinguish his anger before it escalates out of control. After he completes this program, he graduates to the long-term therapy program that he will attend once a week for twelve years. He also joins Celebrate Recovery, a Christ-centered general addiction recovery ministry. But other than not adjusting well to life, Lyen has little in common with his alcoholic friends since he never craves alcohol. When he tells the group that he drank a margarita after playing golf, they become angry. Shaken but not stirred to fury, Lyen realizes that he has broken a sacred pact of the recovery group. To continue with them he must attend ninety Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings in ninety days. He agrees and reluctantly begins the sobering journey into AA, only to undergo a striking change of heart. "Thanks for the Share. Thanks for the Chair" shares the power of AA's remarkable recovery program and how it helped one man dramatically change his life.

To be honest, as a follower of Jesus, I cannot dismiss, as fluke, the truth and wisdom I've heard outside church walls simply because the words did not flow from the mouths of Christians. How can one miss the beauty and humor embedded in H. L. Mencken's caustic observation: "The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride."

There is universal truth in this unrepentant atheist's thoughts. God did set the cosmos in motion. Sin did make us sick flies. If I focus on the material, am I not dizzy? My willingness to forego any impulse to beat on this atheist like a drum or rebuke him, as if he were Satan and all his demons rolled into one, allows me to more fully understand God's Word. I gather from Jesus' teachings this is a good thing.

This provocative collection of worldly beliefs, observations, thoughts and sayings will not hurl you to the floor in uncontrollable laughter, but may be amusing enough to bring a quiet smile, especially when the light dawns that believers and non-believers have far more in common than ever imagined. Who knows, if our Christian hearts grow genuinely compassionate towards those who do not exactly believe as we believe, Christians may become the light to the world we were designed to be?

"Mischievous Rascal" is the story of a mother's unflagging zeal to correctly raise her mischievous rascal of a son and of that rascal's search, some sixty plus years later, to understand his mother's fury and his father's ghostly presence.

"One's innate ability to face, overcome, and be strengthened by unpleasant experiences is key to human survival. The story of Thomas reveals how one child's resiliency stood in the face of adversity."
--Carol Haberberger, Special Education, County Juvenile Facility

"Why Thomas didn't end up in prison is a silent miracle."
--Jeanette Price, Legal Assistant

"What lends depth to this work is the author's honesty in examining and understanding his life experiences in the hope of bettering his grandchild's opportunities for health and well-being."
--Arlene Landau, Therapist

"The author takes us on the journey of a young boy seeking what he needed most, only to find it outside of his own family."
--Cameran Haire, Corporate Managing Director

Mischievious Rascal: Breaking the Seventh Seal is the story of a mother's unflagging zeal to correctly raise her mischievous rascal of a son and of that rascal's search, some sixty plus years later, to understand his mother's fury and his father's ghostly presence. 'One's innate ability to face, overcome, and be strengthened by unpleasant experiences is key to human survival. The story reveals how one child's resiliency stood in the face of adversity. -Carol Haberberger, Special Education, County Juvenile Facility 'Why Thomas didn't end up in prison is a silent miracle. -Jeanette Price, Legal Assistant 'What lends depth to this work is the author's honesty in examining and understanding life Thomas' experiences in the hope of bettering his grandchildren's opportunities for health and well-being. -Arlene Landau, Therapist 'The author takes us on the journey of a young boy seeking what he needed most, only to find it outside of his own family. -Cameran Haire, Corporate Managing Director