Victoria Chames

INCHWORMS is a surprising little flea-market of a book, stories and poems that discover Life, sometimes the eyes of a child, sometimes an adult, but always in wonder of it all. Inchworms celebrates the small miracles we often overlook when beauty shows up unexpectedly, like tiger-lilies in an alleyway, or inchworms in a chicken yard.

Victory is bitter and sweet, tragic and joyful, sometimes brutally real, but always stubbornly hopeful. Like a Huckleberry Finn or Holden Caulfield born female, Vickie gets abused when she's young and grows up complicated, but never quite loses that "maybe I can..." spirit. She achieves some unlikely and amazing things, not by luck, but by grit and heart and a remarkably different kind of courage. It's not about being a hero, it's about never giving less than your best. It's about taking the life you get, and making it count.Not just a story of overcoming, Victory Is My Name is about unlearning the untruths we are taught as children that hold us hostage for life unless we find our own way to the truth. One of them: You can't do that... You can't be that... You shouldn't want that, because you're a girl."This will probably be called a "women's book," though its truths apply to all of us who struggle to fit Who We Are into What The World Expects or Demands from us, which might include most of humanity. One new truth we learn is unequivocal: Girls can.

In the first minutes and hours of mass-casualty emergency such as earthquake, explosion, or terrorist attack, large numbers of people are injured at once, 911 Services will be overwhelmed and unable to respond to all the injured at once. Most will wait 24 hours to 3 days for help. DFA is essential information and skills that can save lives and limbs that otherwise would be lost by having to wait too long, often for simple care that is needed immediately. Disaster First Aid is designed for citizens and volunteers. DFA Includes START Rapid Triage, First-24-hour Action Outline, and the same first-action protocols used by EMS Rescue, adapted to citizen level of ability and resources. Written by a Fire Training Officer, hospital and field EMS professional caregiver with 25 years experience in field & hospital Emergency care and disaster response.

A Space Between Rains: love poems about endings, beginnings, and making mistakes. A poetic memoir of a life that had reached a point of no return, the leaving of that life, and the stumbling search to find a life of my own where I was not invisible in the periphery of his. I?discovered?wonderful adventures, and made mistakes. Through the hard times, I turned to the?empty?page when there was no place else to go, no one else I dared to tell. I wrote in secret, and what I wrote began to teach me who I was. To the empty page I poured out my loneliness, my regret, my despair at the cost of the choices I had made, my fragile hopes, and my fierce blind seeking for something more. Poetry was my refuge, my therapy, my one true mirror, and ultimately, my salvation.