Susan Barnes

Since the dawn of time humans have engaged in conflict and battle. Over the past decades we have witnessed the challenges faced by military members, veterans, and their families. Professional and community organizations are calling for education and training, programs, and effective interventions that focus on the needs of the military community. This book is a response to that call for action. Military life and its trials are fluid and ever changing, so producing a current and relevant manuscript of military social work issues can be challenging as well. The character of Military Social Work Practice: Starting the Conversation is different. It serves as a primer and a catalyst for thought and individual exploration into the military culture and the practice of mental health service delivery to military members, veterans, and their families. The presentation of material is conversational in nature and strives to point the reader toward topics for further research. This book provides the reader with a general introduction to military culture, the challenges of everyday life, consequences of deployment and battle for the service member and family, the most common battle injuries, and various support programs offered through the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration, and community organizations. It is only through the collaborative efforts of professionals and military, government, and community organizations that we can grow our community capacity to adequately respond to the needs of military members, veterans, and their families and help them thrive and heal mind, body, and spirit. Although the primary audience is the social work student and professional, anyone helping the military community can benefit from these initial conversations.

Virginia Moorman's correspondence in Letters Home was when she was between seventeen and twenty-five years old. It reveals a young woman's personal thoughts and her candid expressions about her emotions, dreams, frustrations, and challenges. Virginia was the first child of Oscar and Gela Moorman. She was born in Independence, Missouri, in 1920. Virginia graduated from William Chrisman High School (Independence, Missouri) in 1937, when she was seventeen years old. In 1937-1938, she attended Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa. The letters during this time reveal a young woman and her concerns about herself, her education, her friends, and her family. Virginia was licensed as a registered nurse in 1941 and moved to Columbia, Missouri, to attend the University of Missouri from fall 1941 through spring 1943. The letters from this period reveal a maturing young woman. In April 1943, Virginia accepted a position with the Red Cross Nursing Service in response to a need for nurses during World War 2. She was in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, from March 1944 until December 1945. Her war-time letters offer an intimate look at her experiences and her love of life while she lived on the island. It is with great respect for the people mentioned in Letters Home and their stories that this book was compiled. These personal letters offer a glimpse at an era that was technologically different from the twenty-first century, but still affirms the love for family and friends that is the same now as it was then.The letters and photos printed in Letters Home are also included in Headlong in the Middle of a Wonderful Life, an expanded book that includes additional details about Virginia's entire life.

Once upon a time, Herbert Hapgood and Lewis Van Duyne stood atop a ridge in northern New Jersey, looked across an expanse of undeveloped wilderness, and brokered a deal to turn 1,000 acres of land into Mountain Lakes Residential Park. Hapgood and company designed the physical structures of our town, but it was the founding citizens that created the community and ignited the Spirit of Mountain Lakes. We travel through the seasons celebrating iconic Laker events and revisit popular dwelling places and landmarks to reveal the common bonds of Growing Up Laker during the first 70 years. Let the whisper of the Laker Spirit lure you back. Walk with us on this journey, enjoy the reverie, and share your own tales of Growing Up Laker.

Arabella is a very hardworking little angel who lives in heaven and loves helping all the other angels. One day, she realizes that all the other angels wear beautiful dresses and that her dress is all tattered and torn. She decides to ask God why. I bet God knows, she says. She climbs her way up to God and asks him why, and the rest is a wonderful twist that will delight both children and adults and that guarantees to bring a tear to everyones eye.

You can be more irresistible than you think! Each of us creates an energy that either draws people to us or pushes them away. The Power of Net Magic will show you how to become a person who lives and loves life to the fullest and in the process finds other people more easily drawn into their relationship "net." Can you really increase your power of attraction? Absolutely! And this book will show you how. Whether you are looking for love, looking to improve the love you have or just want to live life at a higher, more fulfilling level, the Power of Net Magic will help you. This stuff really works! You've probably had all the psycho-babble and self-help seminars you can stand. So this book is written to not only be helpful but practical in showing you simple things you can start doing today to improve your ability to become a "people magnet." The Power of Net Magic will help you not only draw relationships to you but also draw more wealth and opportunity into your net. So get ready to "cast your net" and see what you catch!