The first story is not so much about her daring as her ancestors' daring. She shares memories of traveling to New York every summer and visiting her large Italian-American family and what they have meant to her. Their daring later helps her to dare to live in Paris for a year. She was a middle school teacher in Gilroy, California, and begins her summer vacation studying Italian in Florence, Italy. Miraculously, she ends up in Paris and finds a teaching job, a roommate, and a year of unforgettable experiences.

When she returns from Paris, she dares to make lifelong commitments, marrying and having children. She tells the story of a canoe trip and how she learned about the corrosive influence of doubt.

The final stories detail Tezak's older sister's struggle with mental and physical illnesses and the challenge of allowing herself to accept her feelings about her sister, both the good and the bad, that she had for her sister.

The title You are a Racist, Right…? allows the reader to look at themselves and assess where they stand. This book will help readers to determine whether they are the oppressed or the oppressor. Readers will find stories in this book that they can identify with. The stories are about real people, relating to their fears, embarrassments and triumphs and some of the motivation that keeps them going.

The title You are a Racist, Right…? allows the reader to look at themselves and assess where they stand. This book will help readers to determine whether they are the oppressed or the oppressor. Readers will find stories in this book that they can identify with. The stories are about real people, relating to their fears, embarrassments and triumphs and some of the motivation that keeps them going.

After the war, Gunter worked his way through medical school, determined to dedicate his life to healing others. But his disenchantment with his country's past propelled him to America in 1954, where he rose through the academic ranks and became a world-renowned professor and doctor.

More than a memoir, From Berlin to Texas exposes the stark reality of Nazi Germany and the lives of ordinary citizens at odds with the regime's ideologies. But at its heart is the uplifting story of how one man rose above the torments of his youth to build a life full of promise and hope.

After the war, Gunter worked his way through medical school, determined to dedicate his life to healing others. But his disenchantment with his country's past propelled him to America in 1954, where he rose through the academic ranks and became a world-renowned professor and doctor.

More than a memoir, From Berlin to Texas exposes the stark reality of Nazi Germany and the lives of ordinary citizens at odds with the regime's ideologies. But at its heart is the uplifting story of how one man rose above the torments of his youth to build a life full of promise and hope.

"No Child Left Behind!" is the Bush administration's mantra, which is false and misleading! The policy puts the responsibility for learning on the teachers and the schools.

In contrast, my book puts the responsibility for learning on the learner! Teachers and schools only facilitate learning! A learner-directed education would obliterate illiteracy!

The author became literate by following the lessons taught to him by his dream.

In his dream, his subconscious mind told him he could teach himself literacy by combining letters into syllables, which became words, which became sentences, which became paragraphs, which became interesting stories.

He decided to undertake his own literacy as the dream had indicated. Through hard work and persistence, he became literate in several languages, including Greek, Latin, Hebrew and English.

This book is a clear proof of the success of his self-directed education.

There was a serious shortage of teachers in the middle of the last century. At that time, after a career in journalism, Donna Reid Connell was persuaded to be the teacher of a one-room rural school. She had no teaching credentials and no experience in the field.

During the next twenty-five years she then taught at all levels, preschool through college, and along the way she acquired several credentials and degrees. However, Dr. Connell still looks back at what she calls the most significant teaching experience of her life, the one-room rural school.

From his upbringing in Torrington, Connecticut, to his first position as a house parent at a rural Pennsylvania private school at the age of twenty-three, to his worldwide travels, Temporary Sanity gives insight into this somewhat unconventional man. With an eye for detail, Temporary Sanity entertains with descriptions of student and teacher forays and his far-reaching treks to locales such as Alaska, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Iceland, Peru, Panama, and the Dominican Republic.

Poignant and humorous, this collection of personal stories touches on all the facets of Finn’s life—from family, to religion, teaching, and traveling. Through it all, Temporary Sanity teaches life lessons about acceptance, pain, friendship, culture, loneliness, and the search for one’s place in the world.

From his upbringing in Torrington, Connecticut, to his first position as a house parent at a rural Pennsylvania private school at the age of twenty-three, to his worldwide travels, Temporary Sanity gives insight into this somewhat unconventional man. With an eye for detail, Temporary Sanity entertains with descriptions of student and teacher forays and his far-reaching treks to locales such as Alaska, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Iceland, Peru, Panama, and the Dominican Republic.

Poignant and humorous, this collection of personal stories touches on all the facets of Finn’s life—from family, to religion, teaching, and traveling. Through it all, Temporary Sanity teaches life lessons about acceptance, pain, friendship, culture, loneliness, and the search for one’s place in the world.

I interviewed his partner, his friends and siblings. I read everything I could find about the history of The Netherlands. I wanted to understand the history and culture from which Bram came. I made long lists of everything that I knew about him. And then I put together this book, a tribute to my friend's life. It is my hope to share this memory with his family and friends... and perhaps even those that enjoy a description of a fascinating soul.